J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social C19 literary critic & cultural historian. Author of Louise Michel in America (Rutgers UP 2027) + Sensational Internationalism. Editor of NY: A Literary Anthology + the CC to Literature and Food. UCU NEC member. She/her.
https://www.j-michelle-coghlan.com
Catherine Mailhac @catherinemailhac.bsky.social Freelancer helping to connect people with each other and with nature. Evaluation, research, engagement, participation, partnerships, programming, interpretation. Mainly working in the cultural, heritage and environmental sectors. Carbon Literacy trainer.
ICOM UK @icomuk.bsky.social Museums without Borders #icomuk
https://linktr.ee/ICOMUK
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/
Dr Jenner's House @drjennerhouse.bsky.social A discovery that changed the world.
From his home in Berkeley, Dr Jenner’s House tells the story of the pioneering Gloucestershire scientist Edward Jenner (1749-1823) and his ongoing legacy of vaccination.
Katie Colombus @katiecolombus.bsky.social Director of Audiences at Artfund. Occasional writer. Mum of 3 & English Pointer owner.
National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social The National Museum Directors' Council represents the leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums.
Our Newsletter updates you on what's happening in museums and cultural policy in the UK.
https://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/
Vyki Sparkes | Museum Mum @museummum.bsky.social I help parents find great cultural activities so they can enjoy family time more.
📍London
museummum.com
Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social ethnobotanist and curator at Kew Gardens. Dipping my toe in...
Pippa Hough @pippahough.bsky.social I manage the events programme at the Horniman Museum, London. My views are my own, or stolen from others.
Tincture of Museum @tinctureofmuseum.bsky.social Museum blogger - all about museums, art, history & culture.
Tinctureofmuseum@gmail.com
Founder of Autism in Museums
Blog - https://tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/
Sonia Solicari @soniasolicari.bsky.social Director, Museum of the Home.
Trustee, Bethlem Gallery.
Crystal Palace local.
Dan Smernicki @dansmernicki.bsky.social Exhibitions, currently @ V&A Dundee. Books, bicycles, bread and drawing. Opinions my own.
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
Christina Lister @christinalister.bsky.social Marketing consultant for museums, heritage & cultural sectors; trustee Kids in Museums; school governor. Author of Marketing Strategy for Museums.
www.christinalister.co.uk
Museum of British Colonialism @museumofbc.bsky.social Transnational network confronting British colonialism UK, Kenya, and beyond. http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/ourblog http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/support
Jenny Durrant @durrantjenny.bsky.social Museums, Collections, Ethics
Consultant, Writer, Researcher, Practitioner
Freelance and Jane Austen's House
Own views (which may also be about cats, church, or cake!)
www.jennydurrant.co.uk
HappyMuseum Project @happymuseum.bsky.social Re-imagining museums for the wellbeing of people, place and planet.
Posts via @hilaryjennings
Rosie Fuller @rosieeatsjam.bsky.social Public engagement, museum learning, resource writing, audio description, cutting and sticking, pointing at things, eating crisps
http://rosiefuller.co.uk
Museums Galleries Scotland @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk We're the national development body for Scotland's museum sector, supporting museums and galleries through funding, advocacy, advice, and events. 🏛️ 
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social The Heritage Network (formerly Heritage Trust Network) is the UK's umbrella body for organisations that are rescuing, restoring and re-using historic buildings, structures and spaces.
https://heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk
Hannah Mather @hannah-museums.bsky.social 📍Northern Lass | Community Curator.
💻 www.culturalcheerleader.com
📸 www.instagram.com/hannah.museums
farhana begum @littlebrain.bsky.social furnishing her life with cats, babies, porcelain and paper / 9-5: somehow running two museums / views own blah blah blah
Oliver Betts @drolibetts.bsky.social National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social Welcome to the official Blue Sky Account for the RAF Museum, sharing the story of the Royal Air Force, past, present and future since 1972.
Locations: Colindale, North London and Shifnal, Shropshire next to RAF Cosford. Open daily from 10am. Entry Free.
Wakefield Museums and Castles @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social Wakefield Council Museums and Castles team. Follow us for news about our museums and castles across the district and stories from our collections.
National Football Museum @nfmofficial.bsky.social The official account of England's national football museum. Open in Manchester every day, 10am - 5pm (last entry 4pm).
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 🇪🇺
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/
Will Dave 🚲🏛🚀🐕 @willdave.bsky.social Yorkshireman | cyclist | ultrarunner | Loves science, culture & the outdoors | Comms for the Science Museum.
Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk Welcome to the home of human ingenuity. We curate a world-renowned collection & organise exhibitions and events for over 3 million visitors a year. Read our community guidelines: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/smg-social-media-community-guidelines
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Richard Sandell @richardsandellrcmg.bsky.social Co-Director, RCMG @LeicsMusStud
He/him.
Ben Templeton @thoughtben.bsky.social Playful design for positive change :: Writer, facilitator and creative director :: Founder of design studio Thought Den & Critical Action Lab :: News juice! thoughtben.substack.com
University of Reading Art Collection @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social ♦️ Sharing Art Collections held at the University of Reading
https://linktr.ee/uorartcollection
Bernard Donoghue @bernarddonoghue.bsky.social Hello. I’m CEO of Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) in the UK; Chair Bristol Old Vic Theatre; Chair People’s History Museum; Chair London and South East Regional Board of the National Trust; 🏳️🌈 EU OBE culture ambassador and wanderer.
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
The Egham Museum @theeghammuseum.bsky.social Follow to stay up to date with your local museum! Discover centuries of history and culture across Egham and the surrounding area…
Dr Jenny Lee @jennyrlee.bsky.social Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication.
Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life.
AuDHD.
Views my own.
Charlotte Slark @charlotteslark.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar working on museums, bureaucracy & structural inequality. Post doc Research Fellow for @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social she/her
Kids in Museums @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social We work with museums, heritage sites and cultural organisations to help them welcome and include children, young people and families.
www.kidsinmuseums.org.uk
D.T.Pering @dtpering.bsky.social Feminist Leader|Mama|Museums|Culture|Head of Creative Programmes @LDN_Museum|Vice Chair&Trustee @Cloreleadership|@museum_detox|She/Her|My Thoughts🙏🏽
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/
Kirsty Devine @kirstyd.bsky.social Paisley Museum Re-Imagined Project Director
Glasgow Women’s Library Board Director
Matthew Constantine @constantwhine.bsky.social Curator. Heritage, museums, other random stuff. Lancastrian doing missionary work in Yorkshire.
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.
Lauren Mallin @that-museum-girl.bsky.social Communications Officer at National Galleries Scotland • Freelance Writer • Arts & Culture Content Creator • Dog Mum • Instagram @thatmuseumgirl_ •TikTok @thatmuseumgirl
📧 hello.thatmuseumgirl@gmail.com
Views my own🙋🏼♀️ She/Her
Sophie Waring @atinybitwaring.bsky.social Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum.
Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL.
Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine.
Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear.
Own views.
Dr Cait Scott @caitscottheritage.bsky.social Assistant Registrar at National Museums Liverpool | PhD in garden archaeology & finds assemblages | enjoys historic things & places
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
Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html
Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press.
🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
George Marshall Medical Museum @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social Small & mighty. Exploring changes in history of medicine in the Charles Hastings Education Centre. Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Mannequins, life and death, medical instruments. Worcester, UK. Closed Bank Holidays.
Bryony Brown @bryony-brown.bsky.social Leeds 🙋🏻♀️ Head of Marketing at NCMME 🐥 Bookworm 🐛 Museums 🏛️ Theatre 🎟 Cinema 🍿 Views my own 💬
Curator Without Museum @curatorwithout.bsky.social After a few years as a Curator Without a Museum (a bit like a Minister Without Portfolio) I'm delighted to be back a Curator Within a Museum.
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
JORVIK Viking Centre @jorvikviking.bsky.social 👆 Follow us for Viking fun! 🤪
Book a visit to discover the REAL Vikings 🔥
Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social Free access to 900 years of history - Derbyshire, Britain and beyond: books, archives, maps, prints and photographs. Explore online or visit us in Matlock.
Website: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice
Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social The Pre-Raphaelite Society is the international society for the study and appreciation of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and its followers. #PreRaphaeliteSociety
https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org
Kate Fellows @katehfellows.bsky.social Head of Learning & Access @leedsmuseums.bsky.social. GEMYH rep, Yorkshire Accessible Museums Network chair, Artsmark moderator, Cultural Learning Alliance advisory panel. Change the world with tea, cake & awesome arts and culture. Own views. She/her.
Gail Boyle FMA FSA @boyleg.bsky.social Museum Archaeology & Heritage Consultant (former Bristol Museum Senior Curator) Current Chair of CBA Trustees, Pucklechurch PC, Avon Local Councils Assn., & Bristol & Glos Archaeology Society. Treasure Valuation Committee member, Granny & Bristol Bears fan
Delia Garratt @deliagarratt.bsky.social CEO Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust.
Trustee at the Field Studies Council.
Views my own
Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org Sharing expertise, skills and best practice on LGBTQ+ heritage 🌈 • UK-wide subject specialist network • Supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England
Contact: qhcncomms@gmail.com
Website: queerhcn.org
Newsletter: mailchi.mp/46de0e53f704/qhcn
Keith Merrin @keithmerrin.bsky.social Director - North East Museums.
Trustee - Virgin Money Foundation.
Blooloop50 Museum Influencer 2024.
Museums, arts, music, heritage, football and stuff.
Views and opinions all my own.
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 🦒🏺🦋🦴🖼️
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
Inbal Harding @inbalharding.bsky.social Senior Creative lead at big city art gallery. Lover of art and dogs, vaguely fond of my kids. Online nonsense a mixture of all these things. All views my own. 
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
Laura Van Broekhoven @prmlaurita.bsky.social Director Pitt Rivers Museum. Prof Museum Studies and Ethics, University of Oxford. New to Blsk
Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social Associate Director of Collections Services at Science Museum Group, walker, fan: maps, culture, heritage, local distinctiveness. Gay, use hearing aids. Views own
Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social Engaging public in the #EarthCrisis with #Arts #Heritage #Museums Founded Climate Museum UK, Culture Declares & Flow Associates.
http://bridgetmckenzie.uk/ Mailing list https://bridget-mckenzie.kit.com/cbde1db065
David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social Head of Arts, Heritage and Culture at Peridot. Trustee at Painshill Park and Museum of the Broads - with previous form running visitor experience at Tate Galleries, Hampton Court Palace, Landmark Trust and BOP Consulting
BEM for queues
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
Dr Katy Barrett FSA @spoonsontrays.bsky.social Deputy Chief Curator & Head of Engagement @UKParliament. Vice Chair of Trustees @OldOpTheatre. #histArt #histSci #sciart. Keeper #MuseumofShadows All opinions my own.
www.spoonsontrays.com
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources.
Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment).
linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives
(Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
Bradford District Museums and Galleries @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social Home to some of the best museums in Yorkshire, we are part of Bradford Metropolitan District Council - find out more via our
https://linktr.ee/bradfordmuseums
The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK
www.cromwellmuseum.org
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Dr Johnson's House @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social Quirky historic house tucked away in central London. 18th-century interiors & a good supply of dictionaries. Open Tues, Wed, Thurs, Friday & Sat 11am - 5pm
National Coal Mining Museum @ncmme.bsky.social Open Wednesday-Sunday. Visit for a unique all-weather adventure! Meet a miner, explore exhibitions and enjoy the great outdoors.
Explore more: www.ncm.org.uk
Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social We are a grassroots community museum in Finsbury Park North London led by people with experience of homelessness
We do direct community action, independent investigations, collecting and unforgettable art. Find out more:
museumofhomelessness.org
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Almonry Museum @almonryevesham.bsky.social A beautiful C14th building in the heart of Evesham, housing the town museum, Tourist Information Centre and Gift Shop. www.almonryevesham.org
NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social Connecting you with North Lanarkshire's industrial & social heritage | Explore museum, archive & local studies collections | Visit our museums & search rooms
scarbsmuseums.bsky.social @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social A community of creativity, culture and heritage at Scarborough Art Gallery, the Rotunda Museum, and Woodend Gallery & Studios. Make ours a lemon top!🍦
North Lincolnshire Museum @northlincsmuseum.bsky.social Learn about some of North Lincolnshire’s amazing objects and stories. Explore the geology, local history and archaeology galleries.
Brighton Toy and Model Museum @brightontoymuseum.bsky.social Home to over 12,000 toys and models from the Golden Age of British and European toy making
Tue - Fri (10am - 5pm) Sat (11am - 5pm)
https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk
https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/index/Category:Trafalgar_Street_Regeneration_Project
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/
Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social Posts from Reading Museum. We share stories from the history of the town of Reading, its people, its wildlife, and our collections.
www.readingmuseum.org.uk
Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social Explore nearly 900 years of history through the archives and objects cared for by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. Part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Find out more at www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives
Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social Farm boy at @themerl.bsky.social (at Uni of Reading). Looks after old rural stuff in a big shed. On committee of British Agricultural History Society. Active in AIMA, RMN, and Folklore Society. Views own. “Iconic”.
Joe Vaughan @joevaughan.net writer, podcaster, social media lead at The Museum of English Rural Life
https://joevaughan.net