Tag Archives: Manchester
11 questions to a museum blogger for #MuseumWeek
I have been nominated by Claire Miles, HLF trainee curator in Natural History at the Manchester Museum (read her blog HERE) to answer 11 questions about being a museum blogger, a chain blog started during #MuseumWeek on Twitter. So, here … Continue reading
Find it Friday! – Week 38.
I have referred to this week’s Find it Friday object in an earlier post (HERE) but now I have completed work on it I have decided to have a closer look. This Globe is part of the support collection that … Continue reading
Posted in Find it Friday!
Tagged Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, filming, find it friday, Friday, globe, Manchester, restoration, staircase house, the mill
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Moving on up: Secrets of the successful museum career. #MOU2014
On February 6th, I had the amazing opportunity, thanks to Museum Development North West, to attend the Museum Association’s ‘Moving on up: Secrets of the successful museum career’ (MOU) event held at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). Luckily for … Continue reading
Posted in Day's Out, Training
Tagged Collections, Curatorial Services, Geology, MA, Manchester, MODES, MOSI, Museum, Museums Association, museums development north west
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Find it Friday! – Week 35.
Again, I must apologise as I have not wrote a blog for a while as I have been very, very busy. With numerous museums visits and various projects currently on the go, I hope to do a couple of catchup blogs in … Continue reading
Our Connected History – GMMG
As I mentioned in Find it Friday! – week 28 , the Greater Manchester Museums Group (GMMG) were here last week. The GMMG is a partnership of eight Museum Services in the North West; Stockport, Salford, Oldham, Bolton, Bury, Tameside, Rochdale and … Continue reading
MA Conference Liverpool 2013. #Museums2013
There has been a lot going on the past two weeks and most of that has been training or talking about training. On November 11th/12th I attended the Museums Association’s annual conference, which this year was held at the BT … Continue reading
The Final instalment of Vernon Park.
On the 29th of July I started a project that, if you have read earlier posts or if you follow me on twitter you will know, I have been talking about constantly since I began, and this will not be … Continue reading
Posted in Vernon Park
Tagged Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, Earth Science, fossils, Geology, Mammoth, Manchester, MODES, Museum, Natural History, Palaeontology, restoration, Stockport, Taxidermy, vernon park
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Find it Friday! – Week 24.
It was Halloween yesterday! Happy Halloween!! Halloween can be a great time for museums as if in the right context, the right lighting or with the right objects they can be very eerie places! My greatest fear in life began … Continue reading
Posted in Egyptology, Find it Friday!
Tagged 31st century BC, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptians, Collections, Curatorial Services, Egypt, Egyptian Gods, Egyptian language, find it friday, glyph, Gods, Halloween, hieroglyphic text, hieroglyphics, Horus, limestone, Manchester, Manchester Museum, mummy, Museum, Nemty, Nile, Stockport, symbols, vernon park
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Find it Friday! – Week 20.
Here is the first Find it Friday of the month and with the countdown to Halloween upon us this week we are going to have a look at a relatively scary looking object, despite its good intentions. This is an … Continue reading
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Tagged 1800, 1800s, 1856, anti-garotte collar, anti-garotte overcoat, Collections, crime, England, fashion, Friday, garroting, Halloween, leather, london, Manchester, Patent, protection, ruffians, scary, spikes, White Choker and Co
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Tours, Trips and Ghosts.
As you may or may not be aware the Curatorial Services where I am based stores the collection items for a number of sites in the Stockport area. At the weekend two of the sites opened their doors for Heritage … Continue reading
Posted in Bramall Hall, Day's Out, Hat Works, Staircase House, Stockport Story Museum
Tagged Adam and Eve, Altrincham, Art Deco, Bramall Hall, Charles Nevill, cinema, collection, Curatorial Services, Dame Dorothy Davenport, Downton Abbey, Egyptian, English Heritage, ghost, guided tour, Hat Works, heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund, heritage open day, heritage sites, HLF, jacobean, John Henry Davies, Lady Sybil, Manchester, Manchester United, mecca bingo, medieval, Neon, norman, norman conquest, North England, Paradise, Plaza, Read Snape and Ward Circuit, Regal cinema, restoration, Sandstone, Sleep Tight, SMBC, staircase house, Stockport, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Stockport Plaza, Stockport Plaza Trust, stockport story museum, The Plaza, theatre, Tom Branson, tours, Tudor, volunteers, William Thornley
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Exploring the Collection... 