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Hannah Crowdy

@hannahcrowdy.bsky.social
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Brighton (from), Belfast (here now) and Berlin (one day..) Head of Curatorial at National Museums NI but all views my own. Trustee at the Museums Association and Lyric Theatre Belfast.

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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Such a lovely day out at the Weald & Downland Museum (sparing everyone the nerdy museum pics of signs, listening posts etc)
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Exhibition to 'bust myth' about loyalist prisoners www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Long Kesh: Exhibition to 'bust myth' about loyalist prisoners
An ex-loyalist prisoner hopes the event will "create a new understanding" about Trouble-era inmates.
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Still plenty of late summer colour in Belfast’s Botanic Gardens 🌹 🌸🌼
Border of colourful wildflowersColourful rose garden in a park
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Boo Boo and his mousies 🐁 for #Caturday
Black and white cat playing with toy mice on a patterned rug
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 18/09/2026
News | Government launches review of human remains guidance for museums Legal, ethical and moral conversations 'have evolved significantly', says arts minister
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Government launches review of human remains guidance for museums - Museums Association
Legal, ethical, and moral conversations 'have evolved significantly', says arts minister
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Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org · 18/09/2026
Join the team that will be involved in 'Reawakening the Ulster Folk Museum', our £50m transformation project, as an Assistant Curator - Folk Life. Thanks to the #NationalLotteryHeritageFund, this is a fixed-term post for 3.5 years. Application deadline 27.09.26 ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
share.google/AWA0QowotTF2... The RNLI is one of those institutions that make me proud to be British - join me in donating to show your support
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 19/08/2026
Two weeks left to join the panel for MA Conference 2027 🤝 We’re looking for people to join the panel that will help shape next year’s MA conference, which will take place in Belfast on 15-17 November 2027. You’ll work with our staff to decide the theme, sessions, speakers and topics to cover.
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Ulster Transport Museum @ulstertransportmuseum.org · 18/08/2026
We’re excited to announce Jenny McConnell as our new Innovator in Focus! Innovators in Focus push the boundaries of what was thought achievable in pursuit of their dreams. Their discoveries, inventions & adventures had a widespread impact in their fields, inspiring future generations of innovators.
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A litttle Goblin 👹 🦇 for #BlackCatAppreciationDay 🐈‍⬛
Black kitten with very large ears lying on a cream sofa
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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · 17/08/2026
The work it takes for a conservator to make sure our objects remain un-Sullied... Object Conservator & punmaker Shannon Campbell documented an unusual day rescuing Sully from a breech block from ‘La Girona’, a Spanish Armada warship that sank off the cost of Co. Antrim in 1588.
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@museumsassociation.org this organisation runs six museums
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Tired of people who are quite rightly decrying racism thinking it’s ok and somehow helpful to be casually racist about the English 🙄
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Ulster Transport Museum @ulstertransportmuseum.org · 14/08/2026
There’s something about a museum store. Soft leather, cold chrome, the stillness of a room full of things built to move. The little details. Come see for yourself → bit.ly/EHOD26-Trans... #EHOD26 #BehindTheScenes
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Buy European Heritage Open Day: Access to Transport and Industry Stores Tickets online - National Museums NI
View European Heritage Open Day: Access to Transport and Industry Stores from National Museums NI.
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Most enjoyable about the eclipse was the camaraderie. Our eclipse-watching group of neighbours ranged from 9 months to 76, plus 4 cats and 1 dog 🌘 👶🏼 👵 🐈‍⬛ 🐕
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 12/08/2026
Apply now to join this year’s cohort of the Anti-racist Museums Programme 📥 The programme is now open for applications from museums to join our 2026 cohort. We’re supporting the leadership teams of another six UK museums to progress towards becoming anti-racist organisations.
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Anti-racist Museums Programme - Museums Association
Our cohort of museums working towards becoming anti-racist organisations
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 08/08/2026
Apologies for Lough Neagh being in the wrong place, a mistake when editing the map. In other news, we may have a vacancy for a new graphic designer coming up soon.
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My mum lives in the south of England and saw it on the news there so was asking mr questions about it, which I took as a good sign….
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Happy #InternationalCatDay from Boo 👻 Queenie 👸🏼 and The Goblin 👹 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 🐈‍⬛
Collage of a black and white cat, a tabby and white cat and a black cat with a toy mouse
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Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org · 07/08/2026
Explore the #IrishDanceCollection with Valerie Wilson, Curator of Textiles ☘️ With the earliest items dating from 1933, and with over 100 items, this collection is considered one of the biggest in Ireland. Watch the full video → bit.ly/4q3FHm1 #IrishDanceCostume #Fleadh
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CEDaR @cedarrecordsni.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This #NationalMarineWeek we're proud to share the second edition of our 2020 publication, Marine Invasive Species in Northern Ireland, now with additional species pages & up to date maps. Check it out on the Dive NI website: dive-ni.org/wp-content/u...
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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · 06/08/2026
This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'Scottish art' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Agnes Miller Parker was born in Ayrshire & studied at the Glasgow School of Art. Skilled at painting and drawing, she became interested in printmaking and taught herself wood engraving - the medium in which she would find acclaim.
A print made by woodcutting. On parchment in black and white, a cat is poised to attack, snarling at something just out of our sight.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Northern Ireland’ Artist: SR Badmin
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CEDaR @cedarrecordsni.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Join Dr Grant Brown, Curator of Entomology at National Museums NI, for an engaging indoor microscopy session designed to build confidence in identifying these extraordinary arachnids🕷️ 🕸️Tickets at the link: nationalmuseumsni.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...
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Buy Introduction to Spider Identification Tickets online - National Museums NI
View Introduction to Spider Identification from National Museums NI.
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Conflict Textiles @conflicttextiles.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Launch of refresh of Inclusive Global Histories Friday 3rd at 2pm @ulstermuseum.org cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Lovely to see you, Roberta!
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Conflict Textiles @conflicttextiles.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Last few days to see Cimarrón / Runaway slave' on display as part of "Inclusive Global Histories" exhibition @ulstermuseum.org cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Now with added 🐈‍⬛
Black and white cat lying on a table in a garden in the sunshine
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not often you get to start the day in the garden in Belfast ☀️
Mug and lamp on an outside table. Chair, garden foliage and white wall behind it.
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Happy #SussexDay to all who celebrate!
Doorway with white wooden door set in a flint-knapped wallSharply meandering river in a green valley (Cuckmere Haven)Flint Norman Castle set again the backdrop of a town and hills (Lewes Castle in Sussex)Seafront on a sunny day, walking towards buildings, a pier and a viewing tower (Brighton seafront)
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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Far-right chaos won’t define Northern Ireland – solidarity will While extremists grabbed headlines, hundreds of ordinary people mobilised to protect our neighbours 📰 www.opendemocracy.net/far-right-vi...
A man looks at burnt-out cars and homes after violence in Belfast on 10 June 2026. Paul Faith / AFP via Getty Images
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years
In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 09/06/2026
Opportunities | Ethics Committee and AI and Ethics Expert Working Group ⚖️ We’re now recruiting new members for our Ethics Committee and members to form an AI and Ethics Expert Working Group.
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Opportunities | Ethics Committee and AI and Ethics Expert Working Group - Museums Association
We’re now recruiting members to the committee and to form our new working group
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Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org · 05/06/2026
🌿 This #WorldEnvironmentDay, take a walk with us through the Ulster Folk Museum. Aren't we lucky to have this beautiful natural heritage site right on our doorstep? 🌸 #WED2026
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Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
One of three rare opportunities to work on natural history collections with a great team at National Museums Northern Ireland. Curator for vertebrates, closing 21 June, £37,694 to £38,990 per annum #museumjobs #curator #vertebrates #zoology ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...
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Job profile
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 03/06/2026
Two weeks until we launch the updated Empowering Collections report in Edinburgh ⏰ The packed programme of panels, demonstrations and practical talks will introduce our work in this area and support you to put the report into practice in your museum. Book now from £84: ow.ly/PSFf50Z52XU
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
His work was in my mind 😉
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Walking the line after work today
Field of long grass with a flattened path down the middle
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Conflict Textiles @conflicttextiles.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We continue our valued collaboration with @ulstermuseum.org and yesterday delivered pieces for the next rotation of Inclusive Global Histories exhibition. Triona White Hamilton and Roberta Bacic photographed.
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thank you @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I loved ‘Few and Far Between’. Much to reflect on for our work in museums here - trauma, memory, loss, identity, community. And nice to see tiny cameos for @ulsterfolkmuseum.org and @ulsteramericanfolkpark.org
Book cover - Few and Far Between by Jan Carson. Two land masses across a body of water, against an orange sky
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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · 12/05/2026
"If you had 30 seconds to sum up your whole time as a nurse, what do you think you would say?" Today is #InternationalNursesDay ❤️‍🩹🩹🩺 Curator of Modern History, Rebecca Laverty, spent time with nurses who spent their careers at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, Co. Down.
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
theguardian.com
A peace process thriller, the DUP opera and countless cuppas: Belfast’s Lyric theatre at 75
What began as a tiny space above the founder’s stables became the beating heart of the city’s performing arts. Its leader Jimmy Fay reflects on recent hits and reveals what audiences can expect from t...
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Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org · 17/04/2026
💃 Have you ever danced so hard that you've melted your dress? Watch as Bethany Skuce, Object Conservator, works on a dress made from gelatine sequins → bit.ly/4vzIVQo #AshesToFashion #FashionConservation #FashionHistory
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Indoors and outdoors views on a lunchtime. walk @ulsterfolkmuseum.org today
Looking through trees to a manor building and on to a Lough, against blue skyLamp on a windowsill with a net curtain and sunlight flooding through
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ICOM UK @icomuk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨 1 week left! Join ICOM UK as a Trustee for Northern Ireland 🌍 It’s an exciting time to join, our membership is growing and our reach is expanding. Help shape our work in the UK + internationally to support the sector.🏛️ 📅 Deadline: 20 April, 9am #Museum #northernireland #icomuk 🔗 buff.ly/bl95odi
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ICOM UK @icomuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🌍 Session 4: From Conflict to Recovery How can museums support reconciliation and resilience? #ICOMUK2026 #Museums #Peacebuilding Panelists: 🕊️ Mikaël Mohamed 🏛️ Roshan Mishra 🌍 Yuliia Hnat 💬 Moderated by Hannah Crowdy 🎟️tickets: buff.ly/RHg8yG7
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Happy #Caturday from a relaxed and comfy Queenie 👑
Tabby and white cat lying down and stretching out her toes
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ICOM UK @icomuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
1️⃣ month to go until ICOM UK 2026: Museum Diplomacy in Action! Join us in Oxford or online 🏛💻 for talks, workshops & global conversations. #ICOMUK2026 #MuseumDiplomacy 🎟 Secure your tickets now: buff.ly/RHg8yG7
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Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Surprisingly enlightening ‘cheese tour’ of High Weald Dairy yesterday, with a welcome tasting session at the end 🧀. Especially appreciated given my cheesy surname (albeit spelt wrong) ☺️
Shelves with wheels of cheese in storageShelves with wheels of cheeseWoman in coat and protective hair cover and shoes between rows of shelves with wheels of cheeseLeaflet advertising ‘High Weald Dairy’
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