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museumsmith

@museumsmith.bsky.social

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Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, #AuDHD, strolling player, cishet 🏳️‍🌈/🏳️‍⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally. Own views (who else would want them?!). He/him.

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BeMoreAmbrose ⚓🕯️ #Cofepeeps

Rubens' painting of St Ambrose barring Theodosius from church.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#SoftPower #SmithAbroad

A shelf of small Strongbow cider bottles in a seaside café fridge in Romania, branded with an apple not the more familiar archer.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I guess it's not copyright infringement if he's no longer a grumpy MD but instead a mild-mannered dishwasher? #SmithAbroad

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hostelry less than 10 miles from yesterday's events says #NoPasaran ...

Chalkboard outside a pub stating it is "not a political venue" and banning leaflet distribution, canvassing, "promotion of any party" and "wearing of politically affiliated clothing".

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No relation #cofepeeps 🕯️⚓

Evensong music list, including "Smith, Responses".

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excellent double cathedral cities #BookHoard additions for work and self, expo not on the billing but the bill, friendly bookshop and pub canines, now a Stourside stout before evensong. #BankHoliday

Pile of books, one on a son of George III, one on museology, one play and two on policing history - in short, about average for me.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

St Alban will return as The Protomartyr in Avengers: Doomsday #narthex #cofepeeps

Victorian stained glass ofa very blonde St Alban, wearing medieval armour and a green cloak and holding a wooden cross and a whopping great sword.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Edward will return as The Confessor in Avengers: Doomsday.

Edward the Confessor in the Bayeux Tapestry

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Gonzo will return as Charles Dickens in Avengers: Doomsday

Gonzo as Charles Dickens

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For the feast day, Our Lady of Dropping Sick Beats ... #Assumption #BVM #narthex #cofepeeps

White ceramic Madonna and Child

Close-up of the Christ Child in image 1, his right arm raised and right palm down, as if he is about to flip some discs, as I believe the young people say.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#narthex #cofepeeps

"Now that's what I call music"-style cover, but with the first line of the Nunc Dimittis (without "Lord" as that would ruin the already weak visual joke).

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

One for the Napoleonicists ...

"Now that's what I call music"-style cover, but reading "Now, Maitland, now is your time".

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Same vein, same author ...

"Now that's what I call music"-style cover, but with the first line of the prologue to Act II of Henry V.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Very late to the party but ...

"Now that's what I call music"-style cover, but with the first line of Richard III.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wasp that forget his sun-tan lotion, or something else?

Wasp-like flying insect with a yellow face and a very red-purple top half but the usual yellow and black striped bum.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is who runs this account

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Worry not, (not so) little 16th century Dutch fishy ...

Worried looking fish with bulbous head and eyes, head fin and corkscrew tail, with shells and coral around him, from a 16th century grotto design by a Dutch artist.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If it be not fren, wherefore be yt fren-shaped? #CanneIchPetteThatDawg?

16th century Netherlandish drawing of small bears wrestling, sleeping and standing in a forest.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

St Peter the Paddler ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️

16th century Netherlandish drawing of Christ on the shore as a Peter with a billowing robe and raised hands wades towards him knee deep in the Sea of Galilee, rather than the more scriptural swimming. Galleon and boats in the background.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

*James Graham puts his pen down, melancholically* #ArgEng #EngArg #WorldCup #DearEngland

Two Simpsons characters, one with a hard hat in his hands and another with a rolled up plan. Caption: There'll be no glorious second rewrite, then. I'll tell the kids.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

*to the tune of Jean Genie* #amdram

Blue background bearing the yellow, pink and white inscription "steam genie / origin / handheld steamer".

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Unsurprised:

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

*Conquest

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures your already have on your phone

Naive-style neon modern stained glass window of a suspiciously blonde Sir Francis Bacon in an orange hat and teal ruff, seen in the very swish crypt of St Marylebone.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Tfw you have the John 20 reading for #Pentecost ... #cofepeeps ⚓🕯️

LOTR second breakfast meme, but with the phrase 'giving of the Holy Spirit' in place of 'breakfast'.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Post a meme made by you

LOTR second breakfast meme, but with the word 'Eid' substituted for 'breakfast'.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Bust of a man in a toga or similar, on top of a square base with a long inscription.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I worship in Camden Town and ...

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Father Ted wall meme captioned "I hear you're a psychologist now, Tony"

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sideshow Bob in an admiral's uniform singing loudly in front of a Union Flag.

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thankee for thine attention unto thys farter

Fish man farts through a trumpet at a monstrous archer at the base of an illuminated medieval manuscript.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thank you for your attention to this Carter

Actor Jim Carter in a light blue shirt.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Drop your crime fighting Catholics.

Derek Jacobi in brown habit and tonsure as Cadfael, beside a fire and against a shadowy background.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

*Charters and Caldicott intensifies*

Two men in evening dress, one of whom absolute angrily shouts into an old-fashioned phone "You can't be in England and not know the test score".

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Meme entitled "Mary, watching churches everywhere quoting the Magnificat", showing Captain Raymond Holt from Brooklyn 99 saying "Why is no one casting down the mighty? I specifically requested it."

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

#TransDayOfVisibility #LGBTQ+History #LGBTQ #museums

Butterfly meme - butterfly is acquisitions to represent trans people in a museum's organisation, the person is a museum assistant trying to make those acquisitions despite their curator being TERFy, and the speech bubble is "Is this advocacy?".

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Two with beans, or not two with beans - that is the question ...

Shop sign reading 'HAMLET CAFE & RESTAURANT', with a repro of a painting of the gravedigger scene at one end.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Evergreen, alas ...

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museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Dragon posting

A neat trim heraldic Welsh dragon looking smilingly out of the funnel of Ivor the Engine.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Wait, what now ...

My account mapped, close to a large cluster labelled "British Military History Enthusiasts" (understandable), with the two next nearest clusters being "Diverse Creative & Professional Community" and "Beyoncé and Hip-Hop Fans" (less explicable).

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Sauvages? Ils étaient furieux! #SmithAbroad #EatingLikeCrêpe

Crêpe menu extract showing three jam options, including "myrtiles sauvages" (wild blueberries).

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Le Chien à Grande Vitesse... #BonChien #GoodBoy #TonguesOutTuesday #SmithAbroad #DogsOfBluesky #Dogsky @groupe-sncf.com

Smiley orange dog with white snout, belly and paws under a table on a TGV.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Dit 'fromage'! @ @louvrelens.bsky.social #SmithAbroad

Face-on view of a medieval stone lion from Spain or the Maghreb with a very cheesy grin.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Hello, am griffin, can I help wiv your museum visit? @louvrelens.bsky.social #SmithAbroad

Slight dopey looking griffin fulfilling the function of a bronze medieval water-pourer.

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Le Fonz français @ @louvrelens.bsky.social ... #SmithAbroad #eyyyyyyyyy

Man in 18th century frock coat and black hat pointing at viewer with mocking facial expression

museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

#JustCallMeEustace

Detail of a fresco at Canterbury Cathedral of St Eustace as a rather dapper medieval gent in a red, green and white number with a bare head. From his belt hangs a hunting horn and he holds his hands apart in amazement and prayer. He and his hounds all kneel before a stag with a crucifix between its antlers.