Science and Innovation Park @sipwiltshire.bsky.social The Park is a multi-purpose site available for commercial hire. At its heart is the National Collections Centre, home to the Science Museum Group Collection.
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
Joe Vaughan @joevaughan.net writer, museum person, trying
https://joevaughan.net
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
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
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)
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social We're renowned for Romans, cuckoo about clocks and wild for animals! Custodians of Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Natural History Museum.
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
Binita Dave @binitadave.bsky.social
Matt W @soupdragon2000.bsky.social #Museum, #Arts, #culture and #London enthusiast. Views my own. Formerly at lots of big culture places but that doesn't define me. Freelance designer for museums, theatres and other cultural orgs. Find me at catlips.co.uk
bsky.app/profile/catlips.co.uk
Laura Southall @laurasouthall.bsky.social Attempting to channel Spice Girls, Beyoncé & Mary Poppins at all times.
Head of Learning, Trustee, Cat Slave.
Views own ✌🏼
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/
Museums + Heritage @museumsandheritage.com Organisers of sector events, Museums + Heritage Show and Awards, and publishers of Museums + Heritage Advisor. Known simply as M+H, we are at the centre of connecting the world of museums, galleries and heritage attractions
https://museumsandheritage.com
Esme Mahoney-Phillips @mahoneye.bsky.social Assistant Curator for the Science Museum Group and Roller Derby enthusiast
(Views are mine)
Rebecca J. I. Mellor (she/her) @rjimellor.bsky.social Curator, Lecturer, Advocate. Art of the Body, classics, & celebrating LGBTQIA+ stories in GLAM.
Tara Aysha Panesar @tarapanesar.bsky.social PhD Heritage Studies @uniofleicester | Assistant Curator @sciencemuseum | Working at the intersections of heritage, ecology and museums.
Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 @joshlukedavis.com Science writer, editor and author | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🌱🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
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
Richard Wragg @richdwragg.bsky.social Work in a cathedral to nature. Archives, libraries, natural history, medieval medical manuscripts and morris dancing. Personal account, all views my own.
Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social Group Head of Archives and Libraries at Science Museum Group. Mum, Aunt, Christian, knitter, gardener, York resident, views my own
Oliver Betts @drolibetts.bsky.social National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
David Rooney @rooneyvision.bsky.social Writer and curator. THE BIG HOP (Chatto & Windus/W. W. Norton) out now.
https://www.davidrooney.uk/the-big-hop
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
Buy our book here:
linktr.ee/museumbums
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social Head of Collections and Principal Curator at The Science Museum, London | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine | https://linktr.ee/glynmorgan
Harriet Jackson @harrietj1928.bsky.social History nerd and associate curator!! she/her
Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. VP @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Tamsin C Russell @tamsincrussell.bsky.social Leader: Changemaker: Ally: Facilitator: Action Learning Facilitator: Mentor: Trainer: Cheerleader: #Museums : #Heritage : #Culture : Realising the potential of others: Keep safe, keep well, keep learning: She/Her
Emma Chaplin @emma-chaplin.bsky.social #Museums, #swimming, #cycling, pets, TV
www.emmachaplin.co.uk
Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Heritage, University of Stirling. Own views. UK / NZ. Museums, ethnography, emotional labour, collecting, methods. Norwegian forest cat posts 😂 https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/265599
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
Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social Head Curator at the National Science and Media Museum. Historian of science and technology. Nerdy about media tech, the history of electricity, the polar regions and the history of exploration #histsci #histtech #museums 📜
Charlotte Slark @charlotteslark.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar working on museums, bureaucracy & structural inequality. Post doc Research Fellow for @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social she/her
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Emily Fuggle @emilyfuggle.bsky.social Freelance Curator • Exhibitions/Collections Management • Specialising in museums, exile and migration / émigré artists • PhD Research at Ben Uri Gallery and Queen Mary on the Women (curators, donors…) of Ben Uri
Rhiannon Litterick @rhiannonlit.bsky.social Public Programming & Young People
Masters student in Country House Studies
Socially Engaged Practice | Classics | Object Champion 🏺
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
Allisterm @allisterm.bsky.social Curator. Museums, galleries, archives, libraries ⟐ Culture geek ⟐ TTRPGs ⟐ analogue photography ⟐ queer stuff 🏳️🌈. Views are mine. RP≠endorsements. He/him.
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
Dr Rachel Souhami @rachelsouhami.bsky.social Museums consultant. Works at the intersection of design, narrative, partnerships and process. Develops and facilitates new approaches to museum practice. Founder of Prospect Heritage Freelancers branch. Producer of @museumsshowoff.bsky.social
She/her
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.
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.
Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social Museum exec, visiting prof at the Dunn School, Oxford, and UCL Chemistry. Ex MRC, Editor of New Scientist and Science Editor of the Telegraph. Co-author #VirtualYou and more books. Neutron bouncer
John Paul iGhetti Jr @dannybirchall.bsky.social Capercaillie, lammergeier, cassowary
Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social #museums #collections #archaeology #landscapes Formerly Museum Development SE, Science Museum Group, Society of Antiquaries, Chichester Museum, Reading Museum. Mainly #dogs #cats #books #archery and musings. All views my own.
Social History Curators Group @shcg.bsky.social Not just for curators! Social history? Museums? Join us!
No bio, no follow back.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shcg-conference-2025-curating-communities-tickets-1353581481649
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.
Bryn Hammond @brynleyh.bsky.social FRHistS. Historian of the First World War, WW1, ‘the Great War’. Principal Curator with principles at l'ancien asile. Maps landed in my lap. Evertonian. Cricket lover. Father…more when I think of it.
All views here are mine, but I’m prepared to share them.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Curator - Design and Disability (opening V&A Dundee June 2026). Councillor, Brixton Acre Lane @lambethgreenparty
Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social Director, Derby Museums
Banner “Lo Winter is Past” 1963. Marion Adnams (1898-1995). Derby Museum and Art Gallery
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
museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, #AuDHD, strolling player, cishet 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. He/him.
Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies and Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University. Views my own.
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
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 John Tanner @historyjt.bsky.social Passionate about heritage and what it can mean for people & places.
Head of Masterplan, National Coal Mining Museum for England. 🛠️
Director (voluntary, alongside amazing local history mates) of Lichfield Discovered CIC. 🏛️
Louise Sutherland @lsutherland.bsky.social 📍Lives in The North.
💼 Head of Engagement, North @ The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
❤️Likes Bowie, Gin, Museums, Heritage, Culture, Nail Polish & PokemonGO. Unapologetically Gen X.
👉Follows/reposts not endorsements.
📝Views & skeets very much mine.
Sophie Vohra @sophievohra.bsky.social Disruptor and heritage lover | academic in public history, digital humanities and railway history | former museum professional | Intersectional feminist | MHFAider
Kathryn MacKinnon Cook @arfarfarf.bsky.social Freelancer Educator
General Museum Nerd, Artist, Education Enthusiast, Mother of Hounds, Burlesquer, Lover of Glitter
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
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)
Nicola @engineernic.bsky.social Engineer turned museum person. Conservation, energy efficiency & decarbonisation at SS Great Britain. STEM stuff. Childless plant lady. Bristol 🇬🇧
Martin Stervander 🏳️🌈🇸🇪🏴🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com Singing evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, insulaphile. PhD. Senior Curator of #Birds @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social, Scientific Assoc @nhm-london.bsky.social, ME+AE Ornis Svecica, ~Sequencer+RAGer AviList. [Views obvs my own; ex-X-@nesospiza]
Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social Galloway Hoard Researcher at National Museums Scotland. Author of Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom and other archaeology content. https://www.nms.ac.uk/profile/dr-adrian-maldonado See also @almostarch.bsky.social
Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social Passion for prehistory! Flint and stone tools | 3D modelling | monuments | flintknapping | all things Orkney. Senior Curator of Prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic), National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh | Visiting Associate Professor @ UHI
Emily Brown @emilycbrown.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Earth Systems at National Museums Scotland. Secretary and Trustee, Scottish Geology Trust. Gemmologist. Rock person. She/Her. All views are my own.
Margaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences.
Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums
margaretmiddleton.com
Dr Margaret Maitland @margaretmaitland.bsky.social Egyptologist by training. Principal Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Researching inequality in ancient Egypt and histories of excavation/collecting/museums. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/eloquentpeasant
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
George Young @reluctantgeorge.bsky.social Museum and music geek. Of Cumbria, in Manchester. Lead Collections and Exhibitions at Manchester Museum, Trustee at Morecambe Bay Partnership and Museums Association. All views expressed here are mine alone.
Tom Hopkins @tmphopkins1.bsky.social Curator of Aircraft and Exhibits, Royal Air Force Museum. Also likes classics, ancient and medieval history, books, cheese, and making heritage careers more inclusive. Views my Own.
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