Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026It's awards season! You know what that means! To all the orgs grinding, achieving and innovating, but don't have time, staff, or network to nominate themselves, money to pay for their nominations, or money to go to the shockingly expensive ceremonies - I see you, keep up the great work. 010
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Watch until the end for our special guest feature! Over on Dover Museum's reels we've been sharing The 12 Displays of Christmas each day. Here's the 12th and final day for you all. Join in! 🎵"On the twelfth day of Christmas in Dover's Galleries..."🎵 #12daysofChristmas #twelfthday #Dover #Deal 052
Reposted by Karl MercerLizzy Sharpe @lizzysharpe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Last Christmas, I had an idea that I wanted to do the 12 Displays of Christmas in Dover's Galleries. After a difficult and eventful year, it didn't happen. This Christmas it did 👏Thanks to my talented friend and colleague @karlantmercer.bsky.social who put it to lyrics, performed and edited it all. 111
Reposted by Karl MercerSteve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 15/11/2025When in Dover….. visit @dovermuseum.bsky.social. Currently exhibiting a history of Crabble sports ground (the terraces have some great wild plants) and an immersive VR presentation that includes Anne Pratt. Must be a first. 063
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025My #museum30 is 30 job applications, and apparently 30 rejections. 010
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025As a working-class disabled person damaged by the benefits system, reading about DWP workers bemoaning the DWP's "lack of empathy" as they threaten industrial action - it is really testing my sense of solidarity. 040
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Friday vibes. Been ill this week and finally had time to start processing some grief from months ago. Autism and grief don't mix. 020
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 04/11/2025📣New #Exhibition at #Dover Museum: Crabble Athletic Ground. On the 6th January 1896, four businessmen in Dover formed a syndicate named Dover Athletic Ground Ltd with a plan to create a cricket ground and cycling track. 143
Reposted by Karl MercerDr. Alexandra F. Morris @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Last week, I went to go visit @karlantmercer.bsky.social 's "At the End of History," at @dovermuseum.bsky.social and had a fantastic day out. The VR portion of the exhibit is like nothing I've ever experienced before. Highly urge everyone to see this exhibit before it closes. #DisHist 165
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 31/10/2025As we spend this time of year reflecting on the nature of death and remembering the dead, Dover Museum looks to their collections that relate to this theme. Pictured are drawings of gravestones from around #Dover District and #Thanet by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908). #Halloween #Thesaurus 292
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Me and my wonderful co-producer Mark on ITV Meridian news looking at my new gallery. We are still seeking volunteers to facilitate the VR experience so get in touch if you're interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqRP...youtube.comAt The End Of History @ Dover Museum - ITV Meridian News ReportYouTube video by Mark Cridland 111
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 27/10/2025New exhibition curated by Dover Museum's Curating Visibility fellow, @karlantmercer.bsky.social At the End of History: Open from 20th October. Free entry. Entry to VR experience is by advanced booking only: tinyurl.com/mw4m4bbj @accentuateuk.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 27/10/2025It's World Audiovisual Heritage day! For Dover Museum’s newest exhibition, Curating Visibility Fellow Karl Mercer and a team of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent co-producers explored the Museum’s collections to create an immersive experience using VR. #AudioVisualHeritage #AudioVisualHeritageDay 231
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Excellent first week of my new exhibition. Had some great conversations with visitors. Had a lengthy chat today about the layers and layers of accessibility we had to build in - including making our VR piece accessible to vision impaired users. It's groundbreaking work that deserves attention. 032
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 23/10/2025At the End of History can be found on the top floor of Dover Museum in the Bronze Age Boat Gallery. Free entry. Part of the exhibition includes a VR experience. Admission to the VR experience is available through advanced booking only: tinyurl.com/mw4m4bbjtinyurl.comDover Museum Events - Booking by Bookwhen 022
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Curated by @accentuateuk.bsky.social fellow Karl Mercer, At the End of History is an interactive experience exploring objects and stories of disability and looking at how we engage with history and objects.tinyurl.comDover Museum Events - Booking by Bookwhen 122
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Trudy was deaf from childhood and following her successful swimming career she went on to teach deaf children to swim. Her story is one of many being told in Dover Museum’s newest exhibition: At the End of History.tinyurl.comDover Museum Events - Booking by Bookwhen 122
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Trudy crossed from France to England, landing at Kingsdown near #Dover, after 14 hours and 34 minutes - a record time.tinyurl.comDover Museum Events - Booking by Bookwhen 111
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 23/10/2025#OnThisDay, October 23 1905, Getrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was a medal winning Olympic champion swimmer, who also became the first recorded woman to successfully swim the Channel on August 6th 1926. 182
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 17/10/2025New exhibition curated by Dover Museum's Curating Visibility fellow, @karlantmercer.bsky.social At the End of History: Open from 20th October. Free entry. Entry to VR experience is by advanced booking only: tinyurl.com/mw4m4bbj @accentuateuk.bsky.social 132
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025After a successful private launch of my exhibition I was reminded of that time I delivered a poem that is definitely not under 60 seconds long in under 60 seconds. At the End of History at @dovermuseum.bsky.social opens to the public on 20th October. 141
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Verified. This happened. Deal Man is very proud 🥲 011
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Very sad I've been too busy museuming to join in #classicstober this year. But prior to the last few years all I knew was katabasis - Can I score points for living it!? I'm method!😂 Really loving everyone's posts I'm seeing - what a theme this year! Such vibes for morbid me! 020
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025So this is real... Only went and curated like...a whole exhibition, with art and media, and a VR piece especially tailored for accessibility particularly for visually impaired users. 140
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Guy at a hotel just picked his table for breakfast, grabbed the mug, went and got coffee and food, came back to the table, saw me sat nearby, stopped, and then walked away to another table. What did I do!? 😂 110
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025It's been over 3 years since I last put on a display or exhibition. Think I'm about overdue for a revival, right? 000
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 15/08/2025We do enjoy these beautiful posts from @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social showing the work of Anne Pratt. Anne Pratt was a botanical illustrator and author who produced most of her works, including the one featured, while living in #Dover in the mid-19th Century. 172
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2025National sunglasses day is a compulsory call to put sunglasses on museum collections, and frankly Deal Man rocks a pair of aviators. #NationalSunglassesDay #sunglassesday #sunglasses #museum #collections #Deal #Dover #beach 2168
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025People who don't enjoy "The Hundred" are the same people who espouse the values of cultural heritage but consistently under-fund museums. Just saying. 110
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025! Calling for #volunteers ! Production of our exciting Curating Visibility exhibition is now in full-swing. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to facilitate the virtual reality experience. See link below to find out more ⬇️ www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/... @accentuateuk.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Pictured are #sketches of the 12th century #church of St. James the Apostle in #Dover from a sketch book of sepia ink drawings in Dover Museum's #archive. The artist is unknown, but a note at the back dates the drawings to c.1830. Alongside the drawings are photos of the site today. 294
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025If you open up that box it's just my life in there. 130
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 08/07/2025We 'herd' that is #CowAppreciationDay today, so here's a repost of John Lewis Roget's drawing of Appleton Farm, Martin #Dover. 042
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Being forced to move house is brilliant. So far I've paid a month's rent on somewhere I can't even live yet due to the water pressure being so bad the boiler and shower don't work, and my £2000 flooring being delayed. But at least I got all this free cortisol. 000
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Today is #NationalPigeonDay! To celebrate the #pigeon we thought we'd look to the museum's taxidermy First World War carrier pigeon. This pigeon was carefully cleaned and repaired by #Dover Museum’s Collections Assistant, Kayleigh. Find out more in our post from earlier in the year ⬇️ 252
Reposted by Karl MercerDover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 28/05/2025New #Exhibition coming soon: Museum in miniature. An exploration of #miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed. 📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026 📍Special Exhibitions Gallery, #Dover #Museum. 043
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I'm not saying it's all fun and games at @romanpalace.bsky.social, but this is how I imagine the role of 'Head of Operations' there...media.tenor.coma person is playing a game with a broken heart and adam 's appleALT: a person is playing a game with a broken heart and adam 's apple 150
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The autistic experience of being tired of people telling you how you feel and what's good for you. 000
Reposted by Karl MercerKarl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025In memory of my mum, who sadly died last Tuesday, my family and I are running a campaign to raise money for MSA Trust. While not many of you knew my mum, many of you do know me and how hard the last few years of dealing with my mum's condition has been. www.justgiving.com/page/vicki-m...justgiving.comIn Memory of Rose Mercer for Multiple System Atrophy TrustHelp Vicki Mercer raise money to support Multiple System Atrophy Trust 232
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025In memory of my mum, who sadly died last Tuesday, my family and I are running a campaign to raise money for MSA Trust. While not many of you knew my mum, many of you do know me and how hard the last few years of dealing with my mum's condition has been. www.justgiving.com/page/vicki-m...justgiving.comIn Memory of Rose Mercer for Multiple System Atrophy TrustHelp Vicki Mercer raise money to support Multiple System Atrophy Trust 232
Reposted by Karl MercerAccentuate_Curating Visibility @accentuateuk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🔍 Object of the Week: Bartholomew Fair by B.R. Haydon (1786–1846) features rare early depictions of disabled figures, including someone using crutches and a small Black figure, possibly a child or person living with achondroplasia. 📍 @dovermuseum.bsky.social Curated by @karlantmercer.bsky.social 042
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025World getting you down? Work full on? Personal life a mess? There's always time for a song or a poem. Come along to Exposure Open Mic in Waterstones, Canterbury tomorrow to see some amazing artists perform - oh and me! 011
Reposted by Karl MercerSeirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025How to create a #nature-literate society. My latest article @theconversation.com Revaluing naturalists' skills is essential for a future where we work with, not against, nature. Notice Name Nurture #GreenJobs theconversation.com/heres-how-to... @uclnews.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.socialtheconversation.comHere’s how to create a more nature-literate societyNature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years. 27535
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I am going to engage in domestic archaeology today. 010
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Over there they probably call him "Hank Hog" or something... 000
Reposted by Karl MercerAtlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 02/04/2025"The traditional, medicalised view of autism leads people to overlook any possible advantages and look in the wrong places for possible solutions to problems. It is no wonder that so many autistic people (and families, and professionals) are sick of it." 073
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I should say something for autism awareness or whatever - so I'll say this. At this point I'm sick of making you aware. I want a reverse autism awareness day, where society makes me unaware I'm autistic just for one damn day. 010
Reposted by Karl MercerDr Cora Beth Fraser @corabeth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I'm working for free, and I'm exhausted! But soon I'll have something ready to show, and I hope it will make a difference to autism understanding and acceptance in the UK. 'Awareness' is a start - but 'understanding' is what we need to aim for. 💖 1131