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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Starmer - ver much the Woolworths of British politics

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Closed for much next week. Going be enjoying watching the bad weather olympics

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We are pleased to announce that thanks to recent heavy rain and roof issues.. our new immersive gallery experience opens today. Wellingtons available at the door. Please don’t play with the ‘water voles’* #Museums #Maintenance *rats

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Inspired by the article in the Guardian today. #BadPoems #Museums

Creative accounts
You've got to 'get creative' If you work in culture now
You're hoping for that beanstalk
You've already sold the cow
Those golden eggs are wooden
There's no cash under the bed
There's the sound of constant sobbing And the finance team have fled.
You've got to 'get creative'
It's the soft power thing to do.
But the council can't afford that
There's no wealth* in what you do
Music, Arts, and Culture It's not like people care
Until they look up and realise
That it's just no longer there.

You've got to 'get creative'
Who wants old stuff anyway?
Who cares about well-being?
Who would want to see a play?
It's not as if your industry Drives tourism and spend?
Let's get ahead and trash it now.
Leave nothing to defend.
*there clearly is but its not valued in an appropriate and comparative way by successive decision makers, is all.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

One of more than a million reasons why we won’t be offering him the Head of Security role

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If the Chair of the Bored approaches you about joining his new Super Board please be aware that we do not endorse this governance model or the £1 million patronage fee associated

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Probably not adopting Donald Trump’s ‘Windmill Theory of Economics’

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

If you’re not well enough to go on the TV and be interviewed in the morning, you’re not well enough to release a statement and play with your latest Tory defector that same day. That’s what our Mum used to say. #Farage

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Nigel Farage - an evil version of that trustee that sends in the annoying emails but never makes it to a meeting.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It’s one thing after another at the minute. We need to review the reserves policy and risk register in light of the alien threat. AND the audience segmentation model and Membership types. #Museums

Times headline. ‘Bank of England must plan for financial crisis sparked by aliens’
A former analyst at the central bank has urged governor Andrew Bailey to put contingencies in place to prevent collapse if alien life is confirmed

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Last time our Chair of the Bored tried to annex another museum we forced them to stand down by pushing up the price of patronage by 25% Just saying

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Wondering if we might be annexed soon - keeping our heads down in the meantime

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Decided that we can’t have Fiona looking after the major incident plan after seeing her on #Traitors

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Always important to keep an eye on the competition. There’s a lot of these lNarnia immersive pavement pop-ups around. But the retail and catering offers are generally poor.

Christmas trees (four) all dumped on the pavement on a London street

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We had thought the programme to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary would be a little more.. well dull would do to be honest. Just dull.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

So the Secret Traitor is like when our ex Chair of the Trustees became lifetime president of the #Museum isn’t it? #Traitors

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

If you want to know if the #Museum is open today do please post a question about that on Facebook rather than checking our website* *we know our key demographic

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

The Librarian from Unseen University holding up a sprig of mistletoe and grinning broadly. As drawn by Paul Kidby.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Last chance to purchase our Christmas ranges tomorrow!* * before we put it all back in the store until next August. #Christmas #Museums

Museum of forward planning wooden Christmas tree decoration on a tree

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We’ve always been big Paddington fans.. but taking Chris Rea just before Christmas? Not a good look bear. #RIPChrisRea

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Well, the Bored of Trustees are now asking why we haven’t redacted more of our recent meeting minutes. In hindsight we should have kept quieter about our new plans for a mobile museum on a recycled oil tanker

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

We don’t usually comment on #Strictly but - when did Five morph into Right Said Fred?

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Pleased to note that as we don’t have an actual physical real world building Donald Trump is unable to stick his name on it. To be fair he’s following a long tradition of dodgy names being stuck onto culture sector buildings. #Museums

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Ahead of the curve. Moving into 2026 already here.

Abandoned Christmas tree and bin bags on the curb side

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Couldn’t work out why we had lost so many audio guides… … turns out that should have been a left turn at the fire exit, not a right. Furthest distance from the #Museum so far is 138 miles, but we will offer a prize for the winning distance.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

#WellBeingWednesday returns tomorrow for all #Museum staff* There will be yoga and yoghurt. *not you front of house teams - it’s a busy time for us and we need to focus on the visitors

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If you are joining us for an interview tomorrow please do observe the trigger warning before entering the room. #LookAfterYourself #MuseumWellBeing

Door signage - trigger warning.

WARNING

We will be asking you that question about the time you dealt with a difficult manager and had to influence them to the detriment of your own health

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This week we launch #LightClub It’s our cut price Christmas car park light trail. We aren’t talking about it #Christmas #Museums

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As we approach the busy Christmas period just a reminder that it’s unlikely that carefully planned front of house rota actually works. Do double check. #Museums

Poster for light club - messy Christmas tree with bad lights

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Ideal time to buy #Membership for a friend! The deluxe package includes us sending them a brief synopsis of all events and film clips of exhibitions so they can pretend they used it.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The return of our classic kids trail in the sculpture galleries!

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

#FFS Our Family Fun Sundays will return tomorrow for a festive fake then take session. Whoever produces the most credible fake of one of our key collections objects will get to keep the original* #Museums #FamilyFriendlySunday #FakeThenTake *shhh

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

If you are currently in the queue to see Santa in our Egyptian Galleries, we are sorry about the delay, the contractor was told not to climb inside the exhibits and it’s taking longer than ideal to get him out. Still. Why not visit our gift shop?

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It’s a Christmas market. Yes it looks like a boot sale in the car park but we’ve got mulled wine and Geoff made some mince pies.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Staff Christmas Party tonight. Red wine Beetroot sandwiches Lillies everywhere #LivingOurBestLife #ConservationCareTeamAllHaveFlu

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Lacklustre That’s the word for our current social media approach.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We are officially one more ‘let’s pedestrianise Oxford Street’ closer to the end of days.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

As we approach our target of 900 followers here, we pause to remind ourselves that it’s totally arbitrary.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

We’ve launched our new exhibition for Easter weekend! Produced using degenerative AI instead of our (now downsized) human team, you’ll experience a large number of things that ‘aren’t quite right but you can’t put your finger on it’ Please bring your own cup for coffee. #Museums

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Please bring a torch if you’re visiting this Easter. We’ve used all available power to create AI illustrations of items that aren’t real but which would look cool in the gift shop. The world burns. Etc.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Just a reminder to all visitors. We know we are actually handing out chocolate eggs in our gallery spaces. But let’s be VERY CLEAR - you may not eat the chocolate eggs in our spaces. Think of it as a test. And of yourselves as failures #Museums #Easter

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a little girl in a blue dress is eating a chocolate treat

Alt: a little girl in a blue dress is eating a chocolate treat

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Easter activities are now under way! As always this is a crucial period for us as performance over the holiday will irrationally and completely stuff the rest of the budgets. #HappyEaster

Infographic showing the fact that how we do at Easter for visitor numbers had a huge impact

On the left an arrow points down showing staffing budgets will be cut on indoor museums and galleries if the weather is good

On the right an arrow points up showing staffing budgets will rise for heritage attractions and outdoor venues if it is sunny

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Ticket prices have been adjusted. If you have a membership for another museum we will be adding a 25% tariff to your entry. Heritage organisation membership will attract a 12% levy. Rates are doubled if we find you are a patron somewhere else.

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