a montage of 21 landscape paintings from our collections
This time 6 years ago we were all washing our hands while singing happy birthday.
We started thinking of new ways to stay in touch with our audience as our doors were closed
#MuseumJigsaws started as a one off post but quickly became part of people's daily routine and still continues today! 👇
Today is National Tile Day
We have lots of tiles in our collections, many of which we have turned into #MuseumJigsaws
🧩 www.jigsawplanet.com/BarnsleyMuse... 🧩
#NationalTileDay #tiles #puzzle #jigsaw #game
Ceramic bowl with a painted floral pattern on the front and inside the rim.
Page from an illuminated medieval manuscript in yellow featuring illustrations of birds, bugs, and flowers around a rectangle of Latin text. In the bottom right corner is an owl with a frown.
We love a #MuseumSuperbowl *almost* as much as we love a #MuseumSuperbOwl 🥣 🦉
So we're giving you both - and we've turned them into #MuseumJigsaws 🧩
Touchdown.
www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries
@barnsleymuseums.bsky.social
Illustrated map showing Elsecar Park, a reservoir, cafes, and shops. Features a green steam train, labeled "6th Earl Fitzwilliam’s private railway station 1870," and Elsecar Heritage Centre with surrounding historic buildings.
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay
Your puzzle this hour is: A section of the Elsecar heritage map by Liz Kay
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
See the full map when you next visit Elsecar Heritage Centre
#puzzle #game #map #jigsaw
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩 #NationalPuzzleDay
Your final puzzle today is a collection of Barnsley Museums paintings
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
A collage featuring knitted swatches in blue, green, and cream tones surrounds photos of plush toys, animated characters, and people, including a large teddy bear and a star-shaped plushie.
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay
Your puzzle this hour is 'How We Blossom' by Barnsley's Young Commissioners
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
This artwork features in the Expressing the Walls in my Mind exhibition
www.cooper-gallery.com/whats-on/exh...
A scenic landscape with rolling hills, scattered trees, and light morning mist under a blue sky with wispy clouds. Sunlight gently illuminates the grassy field and distant hills.
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay
Your puzzle this hour is winter at Cannon Hall
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
#puzzle #game #landscape #winter
I always find it amusing that my birthday coincides with #NationalPuzzleDay after spending the last six years sharing #MuseumJigsaws
A person walks along a cleared, winding path through a snow-covered park with bare trees and a small shelter in the background on a bright winter day.
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay
Your puzzle this hour is from Barnsley Archives and Local Studies Locke Park in the snow, 1988
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
A museum display case featuring vintage toys and games, including a Monopoly box, a Scrabble board, a Scrabble rules sheet, action figures, a teddy bear, a lead farm animal set, and informational labels.
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay
Your puzzle this hour is the Stories of Childhood exhibition at Experience Barnsley Museum
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
#puzzle #game #jigsaw #toys
Three nude, ethereal figures are depicted in a dreamy, colorful landscape; two are floating joyfully in the sky, while one curls on the ground below, surrounded by soft clouds and celestial elements.
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay
Your puzzle this hour is 'Night and Dawn' by Evelyn De Morgan
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
You can see more De Morgan Foundation artwork when Cannon Hall re-opens on 28 March
An abstract black-and-white drawing of mountains with intricate geometric patterns, houses in the background, underground tunnels with lights, and boats sailing on water in the foreground.
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay
Your puzzle this hour is: 'The long night of a needless storm' by John Ledger
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
You can see this drawing in the Straight A's exhibition at The Cooper Gallery
#jigsaw #puzzle #art
We forgot to mention earlier that we have made a #BrewMonday series of #MuseumJigsaws based on all these featured portraits
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Classical oil painting depicting a family resting outdoors in a wooded landscape, with a bearded man in rich red and gold Renaissance-style clothing reading from an open book
🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩 are back for 2026!
'La Lecture dans la Campagne' by Henri Charles Antoine Baron
Simply follow this link ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
Baron was an important French painter in the 19th century
#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art
A snowman with a carrot nose and a plaid scarf looks surprised as a donkey wearing a red halter sniffs or nibbles at its carrot nose while snow falls around them.
Watercolour illustration of holly leaves, fir branches, green foliage, and clusters of red and white berries arranged in a festive, decorative pattern on a white background.
Today is #NationalChristmasCardDay
This week our #MuseumJigsaws are Christmas cards by local artists which are for sale at The Cooper Gallery
www.jigsawplanet.com/BarnsleyMuse...
#WeekXForXmas
Smiling children wrapped up in winter coats stand next to their snowman
*Festive mode activated*
Our present to you: The Barnsley Museum advent calendar 🎄
bit.ly/BMAdventCale...
Come back to this link each day for a new #MuseumJigsaws challenge and unlock other content
Monk Bretton school children in the snow, 1950s ☃️
A rainbow over Barnsley town hall
A rainbow over Cannon Hall
A rainbow over Worsbrough Mill
A rainbow over Elsecar Heritage Centre
Combining #PuzzleMonday with #Museum30 with a series of #rainbow themed #MuseumJigsaws 🌈
🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete these #MuseumJigsaws 🧩
🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws
#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art
A collage of nine classical landscape and maritime oil paintings from the 18th–19th centuries. The top row features a serene riverside scene under a cloudy sky, a lively tavern interior with men drinking and conversing, and a dramatic mountain gorge illuminated by sunlight. The middle row shows a mountainous valley with travelers, the Venetian Piazza San Marco with gondolas on the canal, and a Dutch sailing ship on a choppy sea under a cloudy sky. The bottom row includes a pastoral river scene with distant castle ruins, a sunlit countryside with figures near a bridge, and a winter river scene with bare trees, ice, and skaters.
BONUS 🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩
As we haven't done one of these for a while and we've gained an hour with the clocks changing, here is a bigger puzzle than usual
Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/BonusMuseumJ...
#art #jigsaw #puzzle #game #BlueskyArt #ClocksGoBack
A black and white photo of a rural dirt path flanked by wooden fences, leading into the distance under a dramatic sky with the sun shining through scattered clouds.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAlliteration
Beautiful Barnsley was a a photographic exhibition at Cannon Hall Museum in 2021.
The overall winner was Kyle Parr with 'Evening Fields in Dodworth'
You can re-visit the exhibition is a series of #MuseumJigsaws www.jigsawplanet.com/BarnsleyMuse...
Oil painting of a cityscape of Venice with the Doge's Palace on the right and the Campanile on the left. The basilica of Saint Mark can be seen in the mid distance. Ther are numerous gondole on the lagoon in the foreground.
#BlueskyMonday The Doge's Palace, Venice' by Louis Desire Thienon
Play the #MuseumJigsaws puzzle
🧩 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws 🧩
Thienon was a French artist who spent a great deal of time travelling around Europe and North Africa.
#BlueskyArt #Art #Venice #Italy
On Slow Moving Art Day spend some time with 'Flower Piece' by Jan van Huysum 🌸🌺🥀
We have turned this and most of our artwork into 🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩
👉 bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
#art #DigitalArt #puzzle #game #SlowMovingArt
🦚 Here you go: A stunning @demorganfoundation.bsky.social tile from Cannon Hall Museum
This is one of several tiles that we have turned into #MuseumJigsaws www.jigsawplanet.com?rc=play&pid=...
Stained glass panel featuring a heraldic shield with a lion and fleur-de-lis patterns, set in a wooden frame. The background is a rich blue with ornate detailing.
Colorful ceramic tiles form an ornate floral design with symmetrical patterns. Brown, blue, and green foliage motifs radiate from a central point, accented by delicate, fan-like shapes. The intricate details create a vibrant and harmonious composition.
A decorative ceramic tile features a symmetrical floral pattern with green, blue, and red elements on a yellow background. The tile shows signs of wear with chipped edges and faded colors.
Art Nouveau ceramic tile with a blue background featuring two white flowers with yellow centers and green leaves. The flowers are intertwined with green vines. The design is framed by yellow and brown geometric patterns.
Combining #TilesOnTuesday with #WeekMForMulticoloured
Cannon Hall Museum has lots of beautiful tiles which you can play as #MuseumJigsaws
🧩 bit.ly/TilesOnTuesday 🧩
#AlphabetChallenge
A t shirt which says 2020 very bad, would not recommend, one star. With a mug that says you're on mute, inside the mug is hand sanitiser and a face mask.
Can you believe it's 5 years
since the first pandemic lockdown?
Trying to find some positives from that weird time, Barnsley Museums brought people together digitally in lots of different ways including a #MuseumJigsaws challenge which continues today
🧩 www.jigsawplanet.com/BarnsleyMuse... 🧩
