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An art work showing 2 people in traditional dress placed in a desert scene and an opulent house.
An image of a gallery with colourful art works with 2 people viewing them with interest.
Colour image of a very large Irish Elk skeleton, displayed in front of a red brick internal wall. 
Colour image of the skeleton of the hind quarters of an animal. 
Close up colour image of the skeletal hoof of an animal.
Close up colour image of the skeleton of the knee joint of an animal.
Close up colour image of an organic, brownish, ridged material with a leaf-like pattern.
Drawing of two men, one a student dressed in a blazer and tie commenting ‘The June Ball is only £50 this year’, the other a member of the local community dressed in a band t-shirt and jeans next to a newspaper board stating ‘All job centres closed until further notice’. 
Image of a 3-penny facsimile of 'Gordon's Last Despatch', sent by General Charles Gordon out of the besieged city of Khartoum, Sudan, in December 1884 
A digital illustration of a city street with stone frontage western style houses overlooking a stone flagged street. Gas lantern style street lights line the street on both sides. In the foreground are various large flowers in white, blue, red and yellow. There are several human figures in the street, mostly wearing long capes, big hats and carnival masks in various styles. The main figure in the centre of the image is a young child wearing a top hat and an oversize shirt pulled up over its mouth and nose. In the background at the end of the street is a large, angular structure rising up into the sky and tipped with a point like a corkscrew. Suspended in the sky above this is a large circular gold and red disc covered with regular geometric patterns and faintly resembling a clock face.
A poster with the text: Telling Tales: Making Stories Come to Life. It has illustrations of a Javanese puppet, the Soga Brothers, woodblock prints, a blue-white ceramic, a scary Noh mask, a blue Peking Opera face painting, a musician playing a horn, an orange robe with a golden dragon and a colourful shadow puppet. 
Woodcut illustration of the Danse Macabre, showing skeletal figures dancing.  
A Conservator cleaning the books and historic interior in Cosin’s Library using a soft, dry brush and a museum backpack vacuum on a low suction to remove the surface dirt.  
The cauld lad, a boar and the Lambton worm as shadows hovering over the shadow of a soldier with a sword. The shadow is attached to a small boy standing in a doorway.  
An artistic photo of a brown tabby named Tinkerbelle lounging on a concrete sidewalk, looking off into distance from 2007.
Open book displaying the beginning of a story alongside an illustration of a man walking away from a well. 
Dinah installing jewellery
Bookplate featuring religious imagery depicting a resurrection scene. 
A side profile of a nun playing with a brindle boxer, standing on hind legs and grabbing a ball with his mouth.
Book cover illustration featuring ghosts, ghouls, and spooky imagery.
Printed illustration of a skeleton operating a printing press. 
Open book showing a page with Bram Stoker’s handwritten signature. 
Bundles of papers bound in pink tape.
A group of people sat around a table that is covered in papers.
Several books on a table supported by cushions.
View of the Palace Museum in the 1920s and 2025; Photos: © The Palace Museum; Image designed by Ziyu Zhou 
Image of the Graham Noble archival collection on the shelf, including Lever-arch files with the following titles, left to right: Jui-Jitsu in the West, Ju-Jutsu and Judo in Japan, Judo and Goshinjutsu (Self-Defence), Jiu-Jitsu and Self-Defence Books, Judo, Western Traditions 
A paper collage of the landscape of Morocco
An orange, black and red striped tea caddy container shaped like a chrysanthemum made of lacquer with inlayed petal shapes and a curved surface.
An image of Greek collection before the repacking project surrounded by tissue paper
Image of a mannequin standing in a display case. The mannequin is dressed in a long dark blue dress with light pink stripes. Attached to the front of the dress are rectangular shaped amulets decorated with protective symbols.  
On the left hand side is a character in black armour with short hair and waving and smiling. In the middle is the title Show and Tell: Stories that Connect Us. On the other side is another drawn character in a red theatre robe, holding flags and waving and smiling.
Colour photograph of a group of people wearing purple nitrile gloves examining books and objects.
A brass pocket watch telling the time of 8:15am.
Paper collage of a building in Morocco. The paper used to create the collage is covered in Arabic writing.  
Photo of an old library with wooden shelving and a balcony.
Colour photograph of a person looking through a peephole into an exhibition case with the title 'Ghosts and Ghouls'.
Image of Dinah in her studio Woman dressed in brightly coloured clothing seated at a desk. She is looking down with a smile on her face, reading a piece of paper. Surrounding her are the sketches, art materials and tools she uses to create her art.
A photograph of the puzzle box wrapped in Christmas wrapping of holly with a bible message taped onto it: “…the land……which is beyond the rivers of Ethippia: That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters……..Isaiah, Chap 18 vv. 1 and 2, 404 pieces”
Silver Mace displayed in an open wooden box.
A picture of beasts and legends from the North East, a green dragon like worm, a hairy beast covered in a blue cloak, a headless woman in a pink dress and a long tusked boar.
a picture of a boy fighting with shadow monsters
Front face of a sandstone altar. There is an inscription in latin
People in a busy museum exhibition.
Dinah Kelly installing her hand made jewellery in a display case in the Silk Roads Gallery at the Oriental Museum
A student with dark hair holds a tape measure against a wall. 
3 people smiling in front of a Chinese bed
A poster with the text: Telling Tales: Making Stories Come to Life. It has illustrations of a Javanese puppet, the Soga Brothers, woodblock prints, a blue-white ceramic, a scary Noh mask, a blue Peking Opera face painting, a musician playing a horn, an orange robe with a golden dragon and a colourful shadow puppet.
12 cartoon faces with accompanying names  under the title ‘meet the team’ .
A woman weaving thread through the spine of a book on a wooden frame.
Diploma of the Prince Bishop of Liège (Ferdinand von Bayern) granting admission to the English nuns to found a convent of the Holy Sepulchre, 1 December 1642 
A ghostly lad, a boar and the Lambton worm as shadows hovering over the shadow of a soldier with a sword. The shadow is attached to a small boy standing in a doorway.
A blonde woman, a pink-haired woman and a pair of hands in a red sweater are holding up wooden Javanese puppets using bamboo sticks.  
Front cover of a book titled 'The life of Bishop Richard Rutt by the Right Reverend Richard Rutt'. The cover is blue with an image of a lock of birds on flight.
Black and white picture of Mary and Joseph on the cross
A black and white photograph of a group of men standing in a field with their backs turned to the camera facing a man wearing a white chasuble holding a book standing in front of a portable altar set up on a table.
A photograph of the interior of a Buddhist hall, with three golden statues placed on pedestals and people sitting on the floor facing them.
A grey stone sculpture, of a four curved, interlocking lobes, situated outside on a light grey plinth with a green lawn in the background.
Photo of a white bowl with a blue edge decorated with an image of Shou Xing, accompanied by a deer and bats.
Outline of images, a wolf, a house and a pig on a white background lit from behind.