Isabelle Lawrence @isabellelawrence.bsky.social Curatorial and Collections Assistant (Science) at UCL. PhD exploring disability histories in the British Museum collection, the ethics of representation & the impact that collaborative practice has on the narratives we construct.
suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social An Australian-American museum geek in Baltimore. Program Head, Museum Studies @ GWU. Sincereposting about museums, ethics, tech and culture. She/her.
April M. Beisaw @aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social Anthropology professor @Vassar College. Fulbrighter @Natural History Museum Vienna. The Archaeology of American Protests (2025), Taking Our Water for the City: Archaeology of NYC Watershed Communities (2022), Identifying & Interpreting Animal Bones (2013).
Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social Conservator managing Conservation for Glasgow Museums.
Sharing my Cat, Books 📚(often Queer fantasy 🏳️🌈), Museums, Suede 🎶, beautiful & interesting science.
I read a lot. Deaf 🧏♀️ with Endometriosis
🩷💜💙 She/Her 🇪🇺
Nina Thompson @ninapthompson.bsky.social PhD student UCL Institute of Archaeology studying feelings & museums, especially medical museums. American in London, perpetual student and sometimes writer.
kai flynn @kai-flynn.bsky.social Museum Documentation Assistant at the Royal College of Nursing
Pauline Loven @paulineloven.bsky.social Costumier, dress historian and film producer for Crow’s Eye Productions 🌍🌱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇸🇪🇮🇪🏴🇪🇺
School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social #Archaeology @ox.ac.uk www.arch.ox.ac.uk
All the big ideas in time.
Try our 'School on Bluesky' starter pack: go.bsky.app/JX5CP1k - Toot ☥ come in!
Ruth Millington @ruthmillington.bsky.social Art writing, curating & consulting. Author of MUSE (Vintage, 2022) and This Book Will Make You An Artist (Nosy Crow, 2024).
Meghan Backhouse @mobbackhouse.bsky.social Museum person at NML. Chair of Museum Ethnographers Group. All things Collections. Opinions expressed are my own. She/her. Go Cubs!
Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social Above all, pluviophile 🌧️ 📙Freelance book detective 🕵️♀️Health and Heritage ♥️ 👩🏫Cataloguing enthusiast 📚Medical humanities nerd 💊Away with the faeries🧚♀️ Thoughts mine own https://drsoandso.co.uk/
Julia Neville @juliajfn.bsky.social Community Ccollaborative Historian.
; Devon History
Royston Museum @roystonmuseum.bsky.social Discover the story of Royston, a town shaped by its ancient landscape and historic crossroads. Nurture your curiosity and connect with people and places, past and present.
Find out more: linktr.ee/roystonmuseum
Supported by Royston Town Council
Irene Karsten @ikarsten.bsky.social Slow knitter. Helping people preserve collections.
Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social Archaeologist that digs museums & archives. Professor of Museum Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Co-editor Museum Anthropology
Janet Dugdale @janetdugdale.bsky.social Consultant working with and for museums, heritage & culture.
John Hansard Gallery @johnhansardgallery.bsky.social Contemporary art gallery, part of @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Visit our curious, connected and inclusive world, inspired by art. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am–5pm. Free Entry
📍 142–144 Above Bar St, Southampton SO14 7DU
🔗 linktr.ee/JohnHansardGallery
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Rachel Hawkins @hawkinsrachel.bsky.social Interested in history and heritage industry chatter and opportunities. Experienced PR consultant and MA Heritage Management Graduate '24. Trying this place out for size. English and Cymraeg.
Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social Official bluesky account of the postcolonial provenance research team at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin @kulturspk https://www.smb.museum/forschung/provenienzforschung/ 
Tyler Smith @tylersmith31.bsky.social Love Books & Museums | Collections & House Officer at Coleton Fishacre House | Northerner stranded in Devon | Frustrated Arsenal fan | Cultural heritage management at UniOfYork | Views my own
Lisa Ollerhead @ljollerhead.bsky.social Director of the Association of Independent Museums.
Museum Ethnographers Group @musethnogroup.bsky.social MEG is a UK-based international collective and subject-specialist network, for anyone interested in caring for global cultures collections.
Web: https://museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Chiltern Open Air Museum @chilternoam.bsky.social An outdoor museum with a collection of over 30 rescued and reconstructed historic buildings. Working farm, gardens, playground, traditional crafts. Exciting re-enactments and events programme. Award winning school workshops.
www.coam.org.uk
Donal Lucey @dodoarchaeology.bsky.social Archaeologist and nerd. Public engagement, social value and immersive approaches. Loves Early Medieval stuff! Member of award-winning Dig The Castle project & @archsengage.bsky.social
Mod of r/AskArchaeology
Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social PhD in #Archaeology. Working at Swedish National Heritage Board. Developing Swedigarch infrastructure for #DigitalArchaeology. Co-editor of @fornvannen.bsky.social
Loves #FAIRdata, #OpenScience, #Fantasy and #Comics
www.inkedin.com/in/asamlarsson
Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social Art Historian, working on exh. proposal re: Pissarro-Millet-Courbet for 2030. Sometimes teaching at Univ of Toronto Mississauga. Ph.D., U of Michigan. Live in Toronto. Canadian. Gardening, travel, philately. I block probable bot accts.
Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc Queer deaf PhD student in museum studies; museum accessibility consultant. Critical disability theorist supporting the radical model. r/AH mod. Genderqueer. DC-based. Pado! 🌊
http://meredith.cc
Jon Sleigh @jonsleigh.bsky.social Arts Educator & Learning Curator working nationally freelance. All views my own. (he/him) Author of ‘What Are Museums For?’ book link https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-are-museums-for
The Common Room @thecommonroomgn.bsky.social The Common Room in Newcastle upon Tyne is a heritage venue, library and archive. It has a cafe bar called 5|Quarter.
Dr Laura Gray Blair @lauragrayblair.bsky.social Research Manager, Science Museum Group • rare books cataloguer, National Trust • Honorary Fellow, UCL • PhD on bibliotherapy in c.19th asylums • views own
Frankly, Green + Webb @franklygreenwebb.com We are a digital research and strategy agency. We help galleries, libraries, historic sites, and museums deliver better digital experiences for their users.
www.franklygreenwebb.com
newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/franklygreenwebb/a-frank-curious-peek
Emma King @emmalking.bsky.social PhD researcher, archives, emotion & family history. Former museum geek. Solo SEND parent. Northerner. Documenting my research at https://substack.com/@emmalking.
Freya Sackvillle West @fsackvillewest.bsky.social She/her
Conservator
Interested in critical heritage studies, memory and cultural history
Views my own etc.
Lara Goodband @laragoodband.bsky.social contemporary art curator, love contemporary fiction, Trustee of Leach Pottery (St Ives), no car, sea swimming
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily.
💜 http://linktr.ee/nhmla
The Salisbury Museum @salisburymuseum.bsky.social Discover over 500,000 years of history in our grade I listed building.
Archaeology, art, fashion, local history & more.
Open daily from 10am to 5pm.
Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social The Best Bronze Age collection in Britain
featuring gold from the time of Stonehenge
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery @rammuseum.bsky.social Exeter's museum & art gallery, home to Gerald the giraffe. Entry is free. RAMM is an Exeter City Council service 🦒🏺🦋🦴🖼️
Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre @charmouthhcc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre.
Registered Charity No. 1105386
Charmouth, Dorset, UK.
Visit our website: https://charmouth.org/chcc/
Book a fossil walk: https://charmouth.org/chcc/events-calendar/
Holburne Museum, Bath @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social Art gallery and Museum with a great cafe in beautiful Bath (also known as 'Lady Danbury's House' in Bridgerton)
The Royal Logistic Corps Museum @rlcmuseum.bsky.social The Museum of the Royal Logistic Corps - telling the story of over 300 years of military logistics.
Worthy Down, Winchester, SO21 2RG. Free entry. 
Food Museum @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social We connect people with where our food comes from, past, present & future, using our large collection, historic buildings and 84 acres of Suffolk countryside.
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social 
Wessex Museums @wessexmuseums.bsky.social Regional museum partnership supporting seven museums in Dorset and Wiltshire, dedicated to telling the story of Wessex.
Website wessexmuseums.org.uk/
Our museums wessexmuseums.org.uk/our-museums/
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps.
There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
Sharon Heal @sharonheal.bsky.social Museums & chat
Vincent E. @vincente.bsky.social Research MA at Leiden University; working on social networks and book circulation in the late Ottoman Empire
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Insiders Outsiders @insidersoutsiders.bsky.social Celebrating Émigré Contributions to British Culture
https://linktr.ee/insidersoutsiders
Osbert Lancaster @osbert.org Podcaster, facilitator and improviser, exploring how people and the rest of nature can thrive, right now and whatever the polycrisis brings.
https://thrivablescotland.com/
📍Edinburgh, Scotland
Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research & other museumy shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder. She/Her
Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social Academic-related staff in HE, UCU member, Trustee, Eyam Museum.
Would rather be in Wales, Berlin and/or out of Higher Education.
Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social Professional historian, consulting archivist, museum researcher, occasional academic, reader, film fan, musician, occasional DJ, one-time photographer, dad, queer, goth, Naarm resident, and maker of lists. https://mikejonesonline.com
Prof Hannah Cobb @archaeocobb.bsky.social Prof of Archaeology & Pedagogy at the University of Manchester, NTF, PFHEA, UoM Academic Development Lead, CoDirector of the Ardnamuchan Transitions Project. #EDI. Giddy is my base state. she/her.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah.cobb
Paul Salmons @paulsalmons.bsky.social Specialist in “difficult histories”. Curator & consultant. Exhibits & educational initiatives in Europe, North America, India & Africa.
Projects with Musealia, Claims Conference, US Holocaust Museum, United Nations & UNESCO.
https://paulsalmons.associates/
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social Archivist, consultant, genealogist, mentor. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social Books: Tea with Jane Austen, At Home with Jane Austen, In the Garden with Jane Austen.Traveling Lecturer 2023 Jane Austen Soc. N. America. 18th & 19th century material culture & food history. kimwilsonauthor.com. 🚫👑
Culture Jobs @culturejobs.bsky.social The job board for arts, heritage and museums. Visit CultureJobs.org for the latest opportunities.
Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social AKA the accidental ecologist
Fine Artist living on a rewilding farm in Pembrokeshire commissions undertaken worldwide.
Website LizaAdamczewski.art
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Sonia Solicari @soniasolicari.bsky.social Director, Museum of the Home.
Trustee, Bethlem Gallery.
Crystal Palace local.
Rebecca Morris-Buck @rebeccam-b.bsky.social Here to connect, personally & professionally.
Creative writer📚|Neuro🌶|Bi 🏳️🌈
Used to enjoy politics|European🇪🇺
Heritage freelancer|Cofounder of @SaferMuseums|Survivor of coercive control.
Now working with writers.
Usually watching SVU, Suits or Dr Who.
Rob Cruickshank @bugblokenz.bsky.social Lecturer @UCNZ | entomologist | ex-librarian | museum junkie | phylogeny nerd | urban iNaturalist | nemophilist (woodland enthusiast) | bug hotelier | maker | cyclist | drummer | koumpounophobe | INFJ | born 322 ppm CO2 | he/him | there's other stuff too
Samantha Evans @samisatwork.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London. Interested in all things class, culture, education, equality, history, museums
Kitty Ross @curatorkitty.bsky.social Curator of Leeds History, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Loves material culture, the great outdoors and singing.
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
Terri Dendy @terridendy.bsky.social Find me in museum stores, previously opinionated blogger @ Ministry of Curiosity.
Known for looking angry at objects - but really obsessed with them
Also over here: https://www.instagram.com/terri.dendy
Sarah Fisichella @rococo-reinette.bsky.social Aspiring decorative arts historian fond of material culture and monarchical histories. Hoping to soon move to the UK permanently! Also love British country houses and natural history. 👑🦔🌪️🌷🐇
Deborah Ng (they/them) @deborahng24.bsky.social Early career heritage professional from Hong Kong. Currently based in Manchester, UK.
All opinions are mine.
Jane Austen’s House @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
Museums Showoff @museumsshowoff.bsky.social A cabaret-style night for people who love museums, libraries, archives and heritage. Masterminded by @RachelSouhami. gigs.museumsshowoff.org.uk
Ciara Daly @dalykeeks.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood Archivist at Trinity College Dublin ✨ Street art enthusiast 🖍️ 📍Galway Girl in Dublin (she/her) 🖤🌻
Melissa Linsey @mkatelinsey.bsky.social Museums, archives, learning and supporting others
Kathleen @kathleenlawther.bsky.social 
Katy Jackson @culturekaty.bsky.social Museums and culture person. Big library worker. PhDing at Manchester Uni: participatory programmes, emotions, care ethics, and histories of gender-based violence.
IG: @culturekaty
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
Holly Chaplin @hollychaplin.bsky.social Museum & Heritage Development Graduate | Youth & Community Engagement Enthusiast | Volunteer Youth Worker | Passionate Baker
Museum of British Colonialism @museumofbc.bsky.social Transnational network confronting British colonialism UK, Kenya, and beyond. http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/ourblog http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/support
Rebecca Wallace @registrarinheels.bsky.social Museum Registrar currently at the National Trust. Always in a pair of heels 👠 All opinions my own.
Tilly Blyth @tillyblyth.bsky.social Executive Director, Collections and Curatorial at Imperial War Museums, Trustee @bletchleypark and Blue Plaques Panel for @englishheritage previously Director of Weald and Downland Living Museum, and ex @sciencemuseum
Safer Museums Network @safermuseums.bsky.social A network of UK museum professionals campaigning to end domestic abuse, and exploring how to make our spaces safer for our visitors and workforce.
Rosie Barker @rosiesbarker.bsky.social Head of Curatorial and Participation, Birmingham Museums Trust, overseeing curatorial, exhibitions, volunteering and participation teams
maxwell museums @maxwellmuseums.bsky.social 🟦 🚨 news from museums, galleries, art, exhibitions | creator of maxwell museums newsletter 📩 | + 🟨 PR at the Design Museum (own views)
🔗 https://maxwellmuseums.substack.com/
surya bowyer @suryabowyer.com curator & historian
linktr.ee/suryabowyer
Helen Hartstein @helenhartstein.bsky.social Co-leader at RAMM museum, Exeter and Chair of Refugee Support Devon. I love museums, archaeology, moors, art, books, crochet, weaving, heritage, walking, Devon, Yorkshire, Cordoba. Views are my own. She/her.
The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social Using what we know about disability to change how museums work for everyone. Find out more: https://sensationalmuseum.org/
Hannah Redler-Hawes she / her🕷️ @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
Sophie Vohra @sophievohra.bsky.social Disruptor and heritage lover | academic in public history, digital humanities and railway history | former museum professional | Intersectional feminist | MHFAider
Lucie Whitmore @luciewhitmore.bsky.social Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
Claire Adler @cladle.bsky.social Heritage, Culture & Communities Consultant: NLHF Mentor; supporting and developing NLHF museum & community heritage projects, audience development research and also Chair of Queen Edith’s Community Forum, Cambridge (she/her) www.claireadler.co.uk
Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃
Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant.
Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.