Tim Smith-Laing @timsmith-laing.com Writer, reviewer, listener for @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @apollo-magazine.com, etc.
Senior Lecturer on Maastricht University's Executive Master in Cultural Leadship: https://maastrichtuniversity-emcl.org/
All views my own.
www.tim.smith-laing.com
Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social Scriptwriter and improviser. “Excellent” - Jack Dee. Got a film in development, which is nice.
#ScriptSky #ScriptSkyUK #BookSky #FilmSky
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Chris Slaby @cjslaby.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, writer, earth human person (he/him/his). Art + history: Native American and Indigenous Studies; the environmental humanities; media, culture, and representation. Food and music, too, though those are more passions than subjects of study.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Morgan L Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social Writer of odd things | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Strange Horizons, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Codex | MA Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB, PhD UChi | They/She 🏳️🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI 2025
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
Colleen Wood @colleenwood.bsky.social Museum & Heritage alumna Deakin University. Director @heritagepeople.bsky.social. Connecting and celebrating cultural heritage. On Yugambeh ountry, Scenic Rim, Australia.
Heritage People @heritagepeople.bsky.social Connecting global cultural heritage - Tangible & Intangible. Things that should be remembered; and things that should not be forgotten. @colleenwood.bsky.social and @woodac.bsky.social
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity fighting to save our Victorian & Edwardian heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Oli Marshall @olimarshall.bsky.social London by way of Yorkshire | Campaigns Director at @C20Society.bsky.social
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).
Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social Work at the intersection of AI and Culture - BRAID Responsible AI Fellow at Arts Council England. Turing Fellow. Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at Goldsmiths. www.oonaghmurphy.com
Laura Van Broekhoven @prmlaurita.bsky.social Director Pitt Rivers Museum. Prof Museum Studies and Ethics, University of Oxford. New to Blsk
Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk The UK's leading arts management journal and independent voice of the culture sector.
Ben Gammon @benjamingammon.bsky.social Freelance museum professional - exhibition and programme development, audience research & strategic planning. STEM, history, art - I cover all bases.
https://www.instagram.com/benjamingammon10/
Rachel Mackay @rachmackay.bsky.social Head of Hampton Court Palace. Author of Delivering the Visitor Experience. Dundonian, dog owner, dancer. (That last isn’t true but I needed a D word)
therecoveryroomblog.com
London Centric @londoncentric.media A modern news outlet for London, covering the city in the old-fashioned way. Edited by @jim.londoncentric.media. Subscribe now for a 25% discount: www.londoncentric.media
Alex Needham @alexneedham.bsky.social Arts editor of The Guardian.
Marge Ainsley (she/her) @margeainsley.bsky.social Freelance cultural consultant since 2008 specialising in research, evaluation and communication. Mostly working with libraries, museums, galleries, archives and heritage sites. UK and beyond. margeainsley.co.uk
James Rodliff @jamesrodliff.bsky.social Museum Director at the Dr Jenner House & Museum. Trustee. Ultramarathon runner. parkrun Run Director. LHGRC Run Leader. Lover of the outdoors.
Kieran Swann @kieranjcswann.bsky.social CEO, Metro Arts. Formerly Create London, Wellcome Collection, Arnolfini. AU/UK. Big homo.
mccarthyswann.com
kieranswann.com
Apollo @apollo-magazine.com The International Art Magazine. Published monthly since 1925, we cover everything from antiquities to contemporary work | London | https://www.apollo-magazine.com/
Margaret Carrigan @reallifemaggie.bsky.social news editor @artnet | Art Market Minute pod host | amateur astrologer | aspiring gardener | cat fan
Michael Hardy @michaelcurates.bsky.social I like music and museums | Digital Curator at Barnsley Museums | Museums Computer Group committee member | Barnsley Civic Trust committee member | Recently started writing for the MA journal.
Catriona Wilson @catrionacurator.bsky.social Head of Petrie Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, UCL | Trustee BGI/National Videogame Museum | Membership secretary, University Museums Group | ACE Designation panel member | Mental health first aider
Laura Pye @laura-culture.bsky.social CEO of National Museums Liverpool. Sit on the board of National Football Museum, Collections Trust, Dot Art. Tranmere Rovers and NFL fan
Matthieu Lelievre @matthieulelievre.bsky.social Curator • Head of Collection Dpt, Contemporary Art Museum in Lyon, France • Lyon-Berlin
Anna Preedy @annapreedy.bsky.social Connecting the world of museums and heritage @Museumsandheritage Otherwise, travel, food, design and dogs! Not necessarily in that order.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/annapreedy/
https://museumsandheritage.com/
Matthew Constantine @constantwhine.bsky.social Curator. Heritage, museums, other random stuff. Lancastrian doing missionary work in Yorkshire.
Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social Curator at Petrie Museum UCL - PhD @LivUni - FSA - Archaeological Ceramicist at Tell el-Amarna - Proud Cumbrian & Honorary Scouser - Scruffy Crafter - Socialist - Gardener - #FirstGen - Views mine
قلبي في السودان ومصر 🇸🇩🇪🇬
Alfred Hawkins @alfredrjhawkins.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Historic Buildings @TowerOfLondon for @HRP_palaces & @PortsmouthCath Cathedral Archaeologist. BBC @historyextra 30under30 2024 (sadly now over 30). Sometimes on TV. All views my own & all pictures my own.
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social fossil botherer, museum nerd, equality fanatic 🏳️🌈
Director, @SedgwickMuseum.bsky.social Cambridge
Trustee, Whitchurch Silk Mill
https://linktr.ee/themuseumofliz
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
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
Tessa Deterding @tessadeterding.bsky.social Senior Comms manager for Japan House London.
Previous Director at YPIA.
She/her.
Kitty Ross @curatorkitty.bsky.social Curator of Leeds History, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Loves material culture, the great outdoors and singing.
Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social Senior Curator of History, National Museums NI @ulsterfolkmuseum.org and @ulsteramericanfolkpark.org. Northern Ireland Representative @museumsassociation.org. Committee Member @ruralmuseums.bsky.social. Views my own.
Olly Wainwright @ollywainwright.bsky.social Architecture and design critic of the @theguardian.com
oliver.wainwright@theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-wainwright
David Burgess @apollofundraising.com Director of Apollo Fundraising - crafting practical funding solutions to power amazing cultural organisations
Linktr.ee/ApolloFundraising
Lara Goodband @laragoodband.bsky.social contemporary art curator, love contemporary fiction, Trustee of Leach Pottery (St Ives), no car, sea swimming
Leonie Bell @leoniebell.bsky.social Director V&A Dundee, Scotlands design museum
Honorary Professor of Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh
Trustee Edinburgh International Festival
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Dr Peter Knowles @medievalpete.bsky.social Head of Creative at Smartify. Giddily working with cultural sites around the world to share their stories.
Interests/obsessions include: 🏛️ museums 🖼️ art 👾 video games🐕 dogs🍸 gin martinis (Not necessarily in that order...)
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social We aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK.
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
V&A Dundee @vadundee.bsky.social We are Scotland’s design museum, designed for everyone.
Open daily, 10.00 – 17.00 ☺️
Maev Kennedy @maevesther13.bsky.social Dubliner living in London, journalist, endless curiosity about archaeology, conservation and the arts. Infested with books
ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
Peter Johnston @peterajohnston.bsky.social Director, Narrative and Content at Imperial War Museums. Military historian, museum professional, and frequent explorer of museums, memorials and battlefields. All views here are mine alone
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Sonia Solicari @soniasolicari.bsky.social Director, Museum of the Home.
Trustee, Bethlem Gallery.
Crystal Palace local.
Pete Dickinson @petedickinson.bsky.social Director of Communications at the Science Museum Group, home to six inspiring sites and hundreds of talented colleagues. Views my own.
Collective Wisdom @collectivewisdom.bsky.social A new kind of PR and marketing agency for the cultural sector. Bespoke solutions, delivered by hand-picked professionals. Founded by @trudaspruyt.bsky.social www.collective-wisdom.co.uk
Brunel Museum @brunelmuseum.bsky.social London’s story of an engineering family that changed the World. Contact us by email - hello@thebrunelmuseum.com
Buy tickets at https://thebrunelmuseum.com/visiting-us/
Amanda Kelly @ajoykelly.bsky.social Art and culture PR @picklespr
♡ art. books. long walks. cold coffee. chewed pencils. sun-baked skin.
Pickles PR @picklespr.bsky.social International arts communications consultancy
https://picklespr.com/
Vanessa Thorpe @vanessathorpe.bsky.social The Observer’s arts and media correspondent 
Sir John Soane's Museum @soanemuseum.bsky.social The extraordinary house & museum of Sir John Soane, renowned architect and collector. Open Wednesday to Sunday. Entry free.
Freud Museum London @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social The final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud
the Design Museum @designmuseum.bsky.social The world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form.
London Museum @londonmuseum.bsky.social 
James Marriott @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Columnist at The Times
Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
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/
National Science and Media Museum @mediamuseum.bsky.social Exploring the science and culture of image and sound technologies. Home to @picturevillecinema.bsky.social. Based in Bradford. 🎥
Plan your next visit: scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk
Charlotte Ivers @charlotteivers.bsky.social Sunday Times restaurant critic and staff writer
Ben Luke @benlukeart.bsky.social Freelance art broadcaster and writer.
• Podcast host and contributing editor, The Art Newspaper
Bryan Hilley @bbhilley.bsky.social art nerd. "eagle-eyed museum worker" - ArtNews. (he/him).
Arran Rees @arranjrees.bsky.social Museum data, researcher, cat friend, runner. 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Paige Engard @paigeengard.bsky.social 🖼️ PR at the Memorial Art Gallery [MAG], a fine art museum with more than 5,000 years of art history located in downtown Rochester, NY📍
Kathryn Havelock @kathrynhavelock.bsky.social Marketing & Comms Specialist @ Pallant House
ex V&A, IWM, British Museum, Design Museum, Wallace Collection
Trustee at Collections Trust & Estorick Collection
Studying art history at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
blooloop @blooloop.bsky.social The world's most read website for visitor attraction professionals. Covering museums, theme parks, zoos, immersive experiences, aquariums and water parks. And dinosaurs.
K-Vo @k-vo.bsky.social 👬museum curator 👬
(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social The ancient world in the modern, in so many ways. Cultural historian and creative producer FRHistS: https://www.debbiechallis.com.
The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social Our experts bring you crucial art stories from around the world.
📍London / New York
Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social Art, and all that entails. Director at The Common Guild. Trustee of Art Fund. Live in (and mostly love) Glasgow. Otherwise in the garden 🌱
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Oliver Clarke @astroclassicist.bsky.social Curatorial Assistant - Greek Coins and Research Assistant on the CHRYSOS+ project at the Ashmolean Museum. Also Stipendiary Lecturer, LMH. Hellenistic history, coinage, epigraphy, Asia Minor . Quizzer, rower, lapsed Brummie.
oehlkers @oehlkers.bsky.social college prof (media & com) in Salem, Mass.
Oriole philologist. Wild bird advocacy historian. Production editor, Bird Observer. archive.org/details/@profoehlkers
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Lynda Albertson @sauterne.bsky.social Forensic researcher and cybrarian using bibliometric analysis to develop accurate quantitative analysis on subjects of illicit trafficking, organised crime and looted/stolen art and antiquities at ARCA. Friends say I am 'fingerspitzengefühl' with data. :)
Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Professor of History and Classics, CUNY. Typo-Queen.
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
Sarah Krienen M.A. @sarah-krienen.bsky.social Greco-Roman archaeology M.A.
Cultural heritage protection, looting, antiquities crime. Goldsmith, sewist, historical clothing
She/her
Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social 📝 Writer, editor and researcher interested in photography and the cultural life of technology — past, present, and future.
📸 Author of 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳: 𝘈 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴 (Duke, 2026).
🗄️ https://linktr.ee/emilydoucet
Carol LaFayette @forestcitizen.bsky.social Artist in a microforest in Texas. Observations on INaturalist at claf: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=claf&verifiable=any
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Austin Goodwin Andrews @austin-glock.bsky.social late antique religion + material culture • from Hamlet, North Carolina • he/him
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
Provenance Lab @provenancelab.bsky.social
Toward #ComputationalProvenance.
We are the Provenance Lab @leuphana.bsky.social.
Find out more about the Lab: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/provenance-lab.html
Helen Shiner @sculptarch.bsky.social Art historian. Provenance researcher. Modernist sculpture. Catalogue raisonné of works of sculptor/printmaker, Moissey Kogan (1879-1943), Bessarabian (Moldovan), École de Paris, d. Auschwitz
France
https://linktr.ee/moisseykogancr
Lynley McAlpine @lynleymcalpine.bsky.social Provenance researcher and Romanist in Texas
Bárbara Romero Ferrón @barbararomerof.bsky.social Daughter of Pepi and José Manuel | Computational Provenance and Exhibitions Researcher at the Provenance Lab and iArtHisLab | Prev. Getty, CulturePlex | Andalucía