Meet our new friend, who is a bit of a poser 🐿️

📍 Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens

Anyone know of marine species named (common or scientific) after tea? Asking for a friend

#NationalTeaDay 🫖

Happy tea day ☕️

A camel shaped teapot with a person at the right hand side

Good morning and happy National Tea Day! 🫖

Has anyone got a more obscure teapot than us? #NationalTeaDay #TimeForTea

Step away for a minute enjoy!

Sunrise over Barnsley town hall

St Mary's Church in Barnsley on a sunny morning

The blossom and flowerbed in bloom at the front of the town hall

The front of the Cooper Gallery

#PuzzleMonday This week we have a selection of puzzles to keep you busy!

🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩

🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws

#jigsaw #puzzle #game #Barnsley #sunrise

Yes ☺️

"Dig deep for the miners" from the 1984 miners' strike

A monkey figurine by Bernard Moore 🐒

Song of the Wind' Plaque by Emma Bossons for Moorcroft

The plaque is decorated with red poppies and yellow cornflowers against a countryside background. It has a wooden frame.

This bottle was made at Woods Glassworks - the blue bottle was made in 1977 to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee

Fantastic!

Happy World Heritage Day!

@imcmillan.bsky.social

Sorry (not sorry) mutuals.

We've fallen behind on these today so will do the rest tomorrow

Pink with a few orange stripes is our 1960s Giggles Doll

We wonder if something similar has ever been made cog Barnsley? There is a 16 mile Penistone boundary walk coming up in May

Ceramic Tile by Minton & Co

A square ceramic tile with geometric design centred with a flower with blue petals and surrounded by four green leaf forms.

Charger with Chinoiserie Designs by Matthew Tyas

The imagery includes a partial view of Cannon Hall Museum and the bridge in the parkland.

This piece was commissioned from Matthew Tyas as part of the 'China Inspired' season 2008/9. Tyas is a member of the Northern Potters Association.

Ceramic Tile by Copeland

Square ceramic tile from the series of medieval occupations. It has a deep yellow ground featuring a man with a crossbow wearing a maroon tunic.

Cameo Vase by Emile Gallé

Cameo glass was refined by Galle in the 1880s. The process involves layering glass of different colours and then cutting away to reveal the colours as part of the design.

Here you go ☺️

We're not sure who made this vase, which we think is mid 19th century

Morning!

Is Bluesky back up and running now? If you can see this reply with a colour and we'll find something from our collections.

Two figures walk along a path beside a river with rows of houses and smoking factory chimneys on the hills

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is ‘artists from working class backgrounds’ for Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds at @lulgalleries.bsky.social

We have selected: 'Nightshift Going Home' by George Poole (1915–2000) from: Working Class Movement Library

© the artist's estate.

and we're back!

The old McDonald's/Burtons building on the corner of Eldon Street

"Meet you at the old McDonald's"

A commonly used phrase for those who have grown up in Barnsley!

Apparently today is 'McDonald's Day' which is the anniversary of the first McDonald's opening in 1955

📸 Barnsley Archives & Local Studies

Barnsley Town hall on a cloudy day brightened up with pink blossom and a blooming flowerbed below

The return of #BloomWatch and #BloomScrolling 🌸

Schoevaerdts was a Flemish landscape painter who was very succesful in his own lifetime. This painting shows an influence from the Italianate classical tradition of landscape painting.

A rural landscape by Mathys Schoevaerdts, with a thatched cottage, a man and dog on a path, trees, pond, distant ruins, and sunset sky

#PuzzleMonday A Landscape with Peasants on a Bridge
Mathys Schoevaerdts

🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩

🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws

#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art #BlueskyArt

This post also made us think about colourful animals in our collections.

Both of these were made at Wood Bros Glass Company in Barnsley.

No, we haven't licked any of our balls (yet)