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Six museums and historic sites across the city, creating life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled memories with you ✨

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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about Autumn 🍂 William Ibbitt captured the moment the trees began to change colour, with orange foliage shining out against the fading green leaves. @artukdotorg.bsky.social 🖼️Dam House, Crookesmoor, Sheffield 👨‍🎨William Ibbitt (1804–1869) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We’re sharing one of visitor favourites for #OnlineArtExchange this week, the impressive Basilica of San Marco! 🖼️Western Façade of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice 👨‍🎨John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
There’s a Victorian theme for #OnlineArtExchange today. We’re sharing a slightly different view of a Victorian school than expected; the children playing while their teacher is away! 🖼️When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Play 👨‍🎨Théophile Emmanuel Duverger (1821–1901) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The theme for #OnlineArtExchange is ceramics this week, so we’re sharing a cuppa with these dainty tea cups ☕ @artukdotorg.bsky.social 🖼️Still Life with Tea Cups 👨‍🎨Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (1629/1630–1700) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The theme for this week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is Time, so we’ve chosen this study depicting the ripening of a cherry 🖼️Three States of Fruit (from 'Bud to Fruit: The Life History of a Cherry') 👨‍🎨William H. Gill (1839–1923) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Like many of you, we’re heading to the Wales for the summer holidays with this beautiful painting for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social in celebration of Oriel Môn's exhibition 'From the Collection' 🖼️ 🖼️A Sketch in Wales 👨‍🎨William James Müller (1812–1845) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We’re beaming onto your television screens for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange today, sharing this charming work by Conrad Atkinson. 🖼️Goldfish 👨‍🎨Conrad Atkinson (1940–2022) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Behind every object in Weston Park Museum is a life lived and a story shared, just like Orville Fuller’s! 🧵
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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Tour of #Sheffield 's Lake District anyone? Beautiful on a day like today ☀️ From the collections at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social
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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is smells in art for Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850—1915 at Watts Gallery 👃🌸 "The Sense of Smell" by David Teniers II (1610–1690) (attributed to) From @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #Art #BlueSkyArt #Flowers @artukdotorg.bsky.social
A colourful painting featuring a man playfully holding a flower in his mouth
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It’s all about scent and smells for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today! So taking inspiration from this gentleman and stopping to smell the roses: 🖼️The Sense of Smell 👨‍🎨David Teniers II (1610–1690) (attributed to) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🎉Hooray for 150 years of Weston Park Museum!🎉 Today, we announced a host of family activities, talks and tours, exhibitions and displays to mark 150 years of life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled museum experiences in Sheffield 👏👏👏 Find out more here: www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/visit-us/wes...
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We’re sharing one of Claudette Johnson’s works for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange this week, to coincide with the new Jenny Savile exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, exploring the female form 🎉 🖼️Untitled 👨‍🎨Claudette Johnson (b.1959) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We’re taking a dip in the Cornish ocean to celebrate the new Sea State exhibition at Wolterton Park @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange ⛵ 🖼️Mevagissey, Cornwall 👨‍🎨Stanley Royle (1888–1961) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
In honour of #BBCspringwatch being filmed up the road at Longshaw, here's some natured-themed children's magazines from the collections @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social (last one probably frowned on)
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It’s Landscape week for @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange so we’re sharing this beautiful, sunny painting of the River Don 🏞️ 🖼️River Don at Wardsend, Sheffield 👨‍🎨William James Stevenson (1835–1905) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Festival of Debate 2026 @festofdebate.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"Sheffield's collections came from around the world, some dating back 150 years ago this year. There is an active conversation about should they, shouldn’t they, return objects" We're at @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social asking: should museums return objects? 🖼️ #FofD #Sheffield
A photo of dozens of people in the atrium of a brightly decorated museum, discussing in small groups around round tables
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Bells and Bikes @bellsandbikes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Kelham in colour. Kelham Island @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #flowersandtowers in the week of #RHSChelsea @visitsheffield.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It’s all about birds for #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social today, to celebrate the new exhibition at Panlee House Gallery 🐦 we’re keeping it coastal with this study of a gull 🖼️White-Winged Silvery Gull 👨‍🎨John James Audubon (1785–1851) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The theme for the #OnlineArtExchange this week is Fabulous fashion 💃 What better way to celebrate than getting a new dress fitted! 🖼️The New Frock 👨‍🎨Frederick William Elwell (1870–1958) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We’re travelling to Cumbria for #OnlineArtExchange this week, linking with Winifred Nicholson’s Cumbrian Rag Rugs exhibition at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social 🖼A Mill Stream in Eskdale, Cumbria 👨‍🎨Thomas Creswick (1811–1869) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We’re celebrating Easter for #OnlineArtExchange this week! 🐰🐣 🎉 @artukdotorg.bsky.social We’re ignoring the chocolate 😉 and sharing this beautiful painting of an egg seller 🥚🍳 🖼The Egg Seller 👩‍🎨Margaret Deborah Cookesley (1837–1927) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Millennium Gallery café, Ambulo, has been ranked one of the top 50 museum cafés in the UK in @theguardian.com 👏☕🍰💐 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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The 50 best museum cafes in the UK
The pioneering V&A tea rooms were designed to draw people into culture, and today these spaces offer more than just sandwiches. Felicity Cloake introduces some of our favourites
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The VictorianSociety - SouthYorkshire @vicsoc-syorks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Tues 8th April is our talk at Showroom 5 in Sheffield. Our last talk for spring 2025 explores the origins of Sheffield's first public museum 150 years ago. Collections of the Literary & Philosophical Society from private house to public facility in 1875 with Alistair McLean 🏦 bit.ly/41Y7rhA
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Talk: Philosophical Foundations: Origins of Sheffield's First Public Museum in Weston Park - The Victorian Society
Sheffield’s Weston Park Museum is 150 years old in 2025 – A Talk by Alistair McLean, Curator of Natural Science, Sheffield Museums Trust.
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange we’re looking at biodiversity. We’re sharing an insect study to celebrate the relaunch of Cornwall Museum! 🎉 🖼Study of Insects with Foliage 👨‍🎨Edward Donovan (1768–1837) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We’re celebrating Spring with a sunlit farm scene for today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange with @dulwichgallery.bsky.social 💐🌷🌸🐑 🖼Sheep in a Landscape 👩‍🎨Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) 📷Sheffield Museums 💛💛💛
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrates Katherine Gili’s exhibition at Chippenham Museum & Women’s History Month We've chosen this powerful sculpture, Eve, by Edna Manley, a Jamaican born artist and educator 🌟 🎨Eve 👩‍🎨Edna Manley (1900–1987) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Festival of Debate 2026 @festofdebate.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
💥BIG NEWS💥 Here's your full lineup for Festival of Debate 2025! 🎉 Join us in Sheffield for the UK's biggest politics festival, with more than 50 events exploring responses to some of the most urgent issues of our time. Discover the programme ➡️ festivalofdebate.com #FofD #Sheffield #Politics
A poster for the Festival of Debate, showing the logo of the festival, the dates 22 April – 30 May 2025, and dozens of names of people and groups hosting events. At the bottom of the festival are the logos of the sponsors: Learn Sheffield, Lankelly Chase, the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, Sheffield City Council, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My wife and self tried our best to get out of Kelham Mills and into the street, but had to make our way back into [the] house, and only just managed it. Carried Mrs Andrews back into house. The prayer book was found in the mud after the receding of the water”.
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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In 1917 William Andrews donated this prayer book to the city’s museum collections, and remembered: “My house was on the premises of John Charles & Sons, Kelham Forge and Rolling Mills. The water was between 5 & 6ft in my house. 2/3
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Clara Morgan @curatorclara.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Reflecting today on the #Sheffield Flood of 11-12th March 1864, which caused such devastation and loss. Prayer book salvaged after the flood, on display in Weston Park Museum @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social (1/3)
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
News from the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: the 170 year old Abbeydale steam engine is powered for the 21st century! We replaced its old steam boiler with an electric drive, keeping it turning at ~12 RPM. Ready for the Spring reopening of the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet on Thursday 3 April!
Large wheel and gears.
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Today's #OnlineArtExchange focuses on historical conflicts for The Armitt's 'A Battle of Ambleside’ And so we're sharing: 🖼Wellington's March from Quatre Bras to Waterloo 👨‍🎨Ernest Crofts (1847–1911) 📸Sheffield Museums
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Some important works going on at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet this week with @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social 🍃 Excavating 4 small test pits on the location of the proposed play area to understand how that area may have been used in the past.
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Mel Lacey @mellacey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Come and join us in kicking off #BSW25 and #SheffieldScienceFestival with our lovely friends @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social. Our adult only evening event is all about nature and Science, with more than a little bit of art thrown in
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Celebrating LBGTQ+ History Month for #OnlineArtExchange 🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTplusHM25 🖼Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) 👨‍🎨Thomas Binney Gibbs (1870–1947) 📸 Sheffield Museums 🙏Edward Carpenter - Sheffield-based pioneer of LGBTQ rights, women’s rights and environmentalism; writer, campaigner, radical sandal-wearer.
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Whoop! This is going to be a great event! 🔬Whether you're a science pro or just curious, this is your chance to explore, experiment and we can't wait to welcome you! 👇 📆 Thu 6 Mar, 7-10pm 📍 Millennium Gallery
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What a day: our first post on Bluesky and a new exhibition! 🚀 🚨These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture is now open at the Millennium Gallery! 💛 See rarely seen sculptures by John Hoyland alongside a spectacular assembly of contemporary sculpture ✨
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Our Favourite Places @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Millennium Gallery @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social is shining a spotlight on Sheffield-born abstract artist John Hoyland (1934–2011) this spring, with his paintings and sculptures. Find out more about the artist in our profile from our Meet the Locals archive > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/meet-the-loc...
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John Hoyland → Our Favourite Places – Sheffield Culture Guide
Introducing John Hoyland (1934-2011), the Sheffield-born abstract painter who took on the international art world.
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Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Hello Bluesky 👋 Pleased to meet you 💙 We are the charity that operates six of the city’s leading museums and heritage sites in Sheffield - here to share the stories of the city and its people, the very best in art and design and set your imagination soaring. Let’s go! 🚀
Composite image showing: people looking at a large, green, Victorian engine, school children dressed in Viking costumes, young children looking at bugs, a couple looking at a painting of a man wearing a turban.
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