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Now this is something to be proud of: both
@hunterian
project Curating Discomfort ánd Curator of Discomfort
@zandrayeaman
nominated for a Museums Change Lives awards. Thank you
@MuseumsAssoc
We're absolutely delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for this year's Museums Change Lives Awards 🏆
The awards celebrate the ways in which museums can make a difference to their communities across the UK 🤝
🧵 THREAD – scroll to see the nominees in each category 👇
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On a windy day like today, our
@hunterian
kinetic 1972 George Ricky sculpture (Three squares gyratory) does exactly what it is named for in
@UofGlasgow
West Quad
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Really proud to have the confidence of the ICOM membership. As always, I'll give it my all.
Steph Scholten
@hunteriandir
elected to the Executive Board of ICOM
@IcomOfficiel
@umac_icom
congratulations
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Dippy has arrived in Glasgow!
@NHM_London
director Sir Michael Dixon explains
@KelvingroveArt
Had the great pleasure of showing him round
@hunterian
in the afternoon.
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Celebrating
@MungoCampbell
's last week as Deputy Director of
@hunterian
@UofGlasgow
in William Hunter style. He's retiring after many decades of service, greatly enhancing The Hunterian's profile nationally and internationally. Thank you Mungo!
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Great to be able to celebrate a big birthday in Puglia with a large chunk of the familia 🥂
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The Hunterian Art Gallery is being transformed to host the Anatomy of the museum
#hunter300
exhibition, celebrating that our founder, William Hunter, was born 300 years ago. Even our famous Gavin Hamilton painting has to make way! Exhibition open from 28 September.
@hunterian
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Two of Glasgow's greats united: Adam Smith dedicating a copy of his Wealth of Nations to William Hunter. From our UoG Library! Certainly to feature in our big William Hunter exibition ftom September 2018
@hunterian
@uofglibrary
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Happy International Museum Day everyone! A great weekend to visit any museum, and also the last chance to see the fab
@hunterian
#TremblingMuseum
exhibition!
@IcomOfficiel
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Great to be working with
@MuseumofLondon
and
@ExploreWellcome
on fascinating Skeletons exhibition Open now
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Following up on public sculpture
@UofGlasgow
, it may be a well kept secret that
@hunterian
has a wee sculpture garden at its art gallery, featuring some very good pieces, e.g. the ones featured here by
#Paolozzi
and
#Caro
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More good news this week for The Hunterian: SFC continues its financial support for university museums. The Hunterian is the main recipient with over £2,1 million over 3 years.
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Immensly happy to welcome so many great and talented new colleagues to
@hunterian
@UofGlasgow
. I'm glowing with pride all the way from Kyoto to Glasgow 🤗
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It's a wrap! Have to eat from this table tomorrow. It may have taken me longer to put this jigsaw together than it took Vincent to paint the original😅
For more about the sunflowers see
@NationalGallery
#MuseumFromHome
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Important & highly symbolic step by University of Aberdeen
@uoacollections
to unconditionally return a Benin bronze to Nigeria. A first for the UK.
@umac_icom
@IcomOfficiel
@Universeum_eu
@BrutishMuseum
The University of Aberdeen
@uoacollections
to return a Benin a bronze to Nigeria. The first institution to agree to full restitution.
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Honoured with this appointment. Look forward to be able to contribute to the Scottish Museum Sector.
"A strong start to 2019 for Museums Galleries Scotland" says our Chair Ray Macfarlane as we announce two new board members
@StephScholten
and
@MaJaBrouwers
in the week that Lucy Casot takes up CEO role. Read the news release here
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A momentous occasion for
@hunterian
&
@UofGlasgow
. A fabulous collaboration with
@UWImona
&
@IoJ_jamaica
Thanks
@Zoology_Museum
@churnjeet
@zandrayeaman
#curatingdiscomfort
@giovannad_arco
@artlawalex
@copyrightcentre
Delighted to return the Jamaican Giant Galliwasp specimen from our
#Hunterian
collection
@UofGlasgow
to The University of the West Indies. The historic handover took place today in our study centre at Kelvin Hall.
@UWIGlobalCampus
@IoJ_jamaica
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An afternoon on decolonisation, world cultures collections and the end of empire at
#Museums2019
Hugely important and difficult subjects. Lots of work to do for museums and universities in decades to come. Not rewrite or remove history, but add information and contextualize
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Really proud of
@UofGlasgow
for this
Finally, University of the Year: it’s
@UofGlasgow
, for its sector-leading efforts to tackle modern-day race-based inequalities by addressing uncomfortable truths in its past. Huge congratulations! 👏
#THEAwards
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Really proud for receiving a Museums Cange Lives award today @
#Museums2022
for the Curating Discomfort project
@hunterian
Massive thanks to
@zandrayeaman
and our community curators.
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#charlesrenniemackintosh
stencil from
@hunterian
collection originally for Willow Tearooms being studied for their recreation
@wtr_trust
. Research supervised by Pamela Robertson
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ICOM General Conferences are massive, in this case with 4000+ museum professionals attending
#ICOMKyoto2019
, but one does get to meet old friends and colleagues, such as my esteemed predecessor
@hunterian
@DrDavidGaimster
and have a cup of sake!
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People ask me if the grass is really greener in Glasgow. Yes it is! And the new museum space
@KelvinHall16
is huge!
@paulariese
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Really proud to announce the appointment of Joseph Sharples as the new Mackintosh Curator for The Hunterian
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Opening of the
@hunterian
William Hunter 300 exhibition
@YaleBritishArt
. Mungo Campbell introducing and Nathan Flis, Meredith Gamer and our own Lola Sanchez Jauregui discussing the challenging content of Hunter's legacy for us in the 21st century.
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It's a wrap! Exhibition T.rex in Town in
@KelvinHall16
is now closed. Trix, the real T.rex from The Netherlands, will go back home. A big thank you to the great
@GlasgowMuseums
and
@hunterian
team for making all visitors feel welcome.
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On my daily walkabout Glasgow, I stumbled upon this stone, on the site where in 1804 the first recorded meteorite fell in Scotland, making it one of the first scientifically-verified falls anywhere in the world. Since 1810 in
@hunterian
collection
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Spectacular skies over Dundee after sneak preview of
@VADundee
and over Glasgow returning home
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Hunterian seeks Mackintosh curator. Most exiting museum job in Glasgow!
@crmsociety
@crmackintosh365
@GLAMackintosh
@Mackintosh150
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The Hunterian offers an opportunity to work on some cutting edge museology, co-funded by
@MuseumsGalScot
. Do share!
@hunterian
@umac_icom
@MuseumsAssoc
@UofGInfoStudies
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World's first museum study deck?! New
@hunterian
offices in Kelvin Hall. Moving in soon!
@UofGlasgow
@KelvinHall16
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Back
@UofGlasgow
@hunterian
after a restful Xmas break in Amsterdam. Looking forward to an eventful year with major anniversary celebrations coming up:
#charlesrenniemackintosh
(150) and
#WilliamHunter
(300). Best wishes to all!
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Nice that the
@TheScotsman
picked up on
@hunterian
small, but interesting exhibition "Take an object", curated by Lola Sanchez-Jauregui. It showcases how historical museum objects are use to teach, research and inspire present day students and designers.
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We are grateful for all support to address this funding decision by
@ScotFundCouncil
that delivers no meaningful financial benefits, but does do serious damage to an already fragile system
@UnivMuseumsGrp
@umac_icom
@MuseumsGalScot
@MuseumsAssoc
@Universeum_eu
@UniMuseumsScot
UMG's Co-Chairs have written to the SFC, expressing their support of
@UniMuseumsScot
with the hope of persuading the SFC to reconsider this unfortunate decision
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A privilige to be part of this panel on truthtelling and discomfort
@umac_icom
#umac2023
. Powerful contrubutions by
@EzzardFlowers
@MichelleBroun
and
@zandrayeaman
on the necessity of equitable relations between museums and their stakeholder communities
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Looking very much forward to this conference on museums and repatriation in
@KelvinHall16
on 19 April, co-organised
@copyrightcentre
,
@hunterian
and
@IAL_art_law
A major conference on
#museums
&
#repatriation
taking place in Glasgow on 19 April: "From Scotland to the World". All welcome! Very happy to be involved in this, alongside a great team
@copyrightcentre
@drelena_cooper
@hunteriandir
@hunterian
@IAL_art_law
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Had a coffee for the first time at beautiful
@atthewillow
@wtr_trust
in Sauchiehall St yesterday. Great result! Tomorrow night "the making of...." on BBC2
The tea rooms that brought Mackintosh back to life -
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Took it slow this morning: had a nice walk to work through Kelvingrove Park along Kelvin River. Had a wee chat with my old pal Joseph Lister on the way.
#lastworkdaybeforetheXmasholidays
. Enjoy all!
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Went to say hello to Trix who stayed with us us
@KelvinHall16
@hunterian
@GlasgowMuseums
earlier in the year. She's back home now in the recently reopened
@museumnaturalis
in The Netherlands. Spectacular architecture. I thought the dino-Xmastree was a nice touch.
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The fat lady has sung...the
#hunter300
William Hunter exhibition is now closed
@hunterian
, but only to rise as a phoenix from its ashes in New Haven, USA
@Yale
Centre for British Art from mid-February
Last chance! OPEN 11 to 4
@uofglasgow
Day 12 pick - Allan Ramsay ‘William Hunter’. When Ramsay painted this very personal portrait of his long-standing friend in 1765, they had both recently acquired positions at court and were at the height of their respective careers
#hunter300
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Great visit to the colleagues
@UofGspcoll
, showing fascinating stuff, like the newly acquired letters exchanged between
#Whistler
and
#Monet
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It would have been great if somebody would have told me I was being replaced by
@TristramHuntVA
What do the French know that we don't? Is one
@VADundee
in Scotland not enough? 😉
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On this clear spring day, the old professorial houses on The Square
@UofGlasgow
look great after the major maintenance works by UoG Estates.
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Great week
@hunterian
: 2 new exhibitions, a big opening event, stimulating discussions with colleagues from
@YaleBritishArt
and
@ExploreWellcome
, a full day on the
@AntonineWall
today and to top it off a Hunterian Museum filled with cool music & people from
@SubcityRadio
DJs from
@SubcityRadio
playing in The Hunterian tonight and making the backdrop look better than ever 🎧
#lightshow
#weekend
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Stumbled across another
@hunterian
on the Upper East Side in New York. Turns out to be a cocktail bar. Unfortunately closed. Might be a good a idea for us as well. Maybe
@DavidDuncan64
could volunteer as barman?
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OMG, just received a letter from the Home Office granting me pre-settled status for 5 years. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Applying was easy (15 mins) and the decision came within 24 hours. But the true scale of the idiocy called Brexit has yet to fully unfold.
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It was plain brilliant. Great musicians with historic instruments and a fascinating program! A 'music museum' in a 'museum museum'.
@hunterian
@UofGlasgow
🤩 Today’s concert venue -
@hunterian
museum, Glasgow
The perfect setting for us to present Dolmetsch’s own ‘musical museum’ in Beginning of the Revolution - recreating one of the earliest concerts in the early music revival.
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Today is
@p_black196
last official workday as art curator
@hunterian
Peter is retiring after 21 years of service. Peter will deliver a public lecture on 29 January in the Hunterian Art Gallery. In the background of the picture is Peter's successor, Lola Sanchez-Jauregui.
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150 years ago
#OnThisDay
@UofGlasgow
moved into its new Gilbert Scott building on Gilmorehill. A small exhibition
@hunterian
celebrates the craftsmen that built it. Some extraordinary materials from
@uofglibrary
help to identify a number of them by name.
Happy 150th birthday to our Gilmorehill campus!🎉
On 7 November 1870 the University community celebrated the move from Glasgow's High Street to the west end. A gathering in the Hunterian Museum marked the official opening of our beautiful main building.
#Gilmorehill150
#TeamUofG
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Seems the right thing to do when self-isolating. Art:✅ Museum✅ check, a bit of Dutch✅
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BBC News - Rare T. rex skeleton arrives in Glasgow
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Great to see our
@hunterian
Peploe's tulips in a vase side by side to
@NationalGallery
Van Gogh's sunflowers in
@Tate
#VanGoghandBritain
exhibition
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150th anniversary boosts visitor numbers to Mackintosh venues
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An eerie sight last night as this mechanical monster took on a former Western Infirmary building and was winning
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Great to have
@prm_laurita
visit
@hunterian
today to work with Hunterian staff sharing experiences of co-production and repatriation. And of course a visit with
@zandrayeaman
to the Curating Discomfort intervention in the Hunterian Museum
I am finally off to 🏴 next week to
@NtlMuseumsScot
and
@hunterian
+ meet dear colleagues
@hunteriandir
@giovannad_arco
@johngiblin
@Itandehuijansen
@arkotong
. Booking my train tickets I am so glad to see 🏴 prices for trains are NORMAL even early mornings not crazy like in 🏴.
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Already proud of our new exhibition manager
@CuratorRuth
@hunterian
who was part of the team of
@LeedsMuseums
that just won a Museums Change Lives Award
#Museums2019
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Important step by
@UofGlasgow
to publish research on how it has benefited from slavery. Some constructive proposals to address the future of this historic wrong.
@DavidDuncan64
@UofGVC
Today we publish a report following a year long investigation into our links to historical slavery. And also launch a programme of reparative justice. Read the findings here ➡️
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A truly inspiring and insightful conference yesterday with many brilliant contributions from repatriation theory and practice. A massive thanks to
@copyrightcentre
@IAL_art_law
@artlawalex
for co-organising with
@hunterian
@UofGlasgow
🎉 That's a wrap! 🎉
Our conference, "From Scotland to the World: Repatriation and Museums," was a success, featuring 7 insightful panels throughout the day 💡
Thank you to our co-hosts
@hunterian
&
@IAL_art_law
and to all our attendees for their engaging discussions 👏👏 👏
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Enjoyed today's visit with
@hunterian
friends to
@jupiterartland
enormously. Powerful works by great artists like Antony Gormley, Charles Jenks and Joana Vasconcelos create an intricate cultural landscape.
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Youth hero Rutger Hauer dies aged 75. For Dutch kids, he was Floris (from 1969), the first Dutch knight on television. And a few years later, directed again by Paul Verhoeven, the freespirited painter in Turkish Delight. And yes, Blade runner too.
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Attention all Toshies out there!
@crmsociety
@Mackintosh150
Saturday 20 October a symposium in
@KelvinHall16
Intangible Matters: Mackintosh, Authenticity and Conservation.
Organised by
@GSA
@hunterian
@UofGlasgow
Tickets £10/20 necessary. Book via
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A pleasure to tour the Provost
@smithsonian
through the
@hunterian
Collections Study Centre
@KelvinHall16
and have a informative conversation on collaboration over lunch, courtesy of
@UofGVC
Delighted to welcome Provost John Davis of
@smithsonian
. A great opportunity for
@UofGlasgow
@hunterian
and Smithsonian Institution to cement our strong relationship and to discuss future strategic collaborations.
@ahrcpress
@glasgowlife
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Chuffed to have my Bulgar Time clock by Viktor IV back on the wall. These clocks show time in a different ways, challenging convention. It got suspended in (lockdown) time after I lent it to the provocative 24/7 exhibition
@SomersetHouse
curated by
@sarahecook
of
@UofGlasgow
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It's hard to escape Mackintosh, even when
@YaleArtGallery
: Wendy Maruyama's (San Diego, 1952) Micky Mackintosh Chair
@hunterian
@crmsociety
#Mackintosh150
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Thanks to the team, student volunteers and contributors for making the Night at the Museum last night so enjoyable
@hunterian
@UofGlasgow
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Showcase
@KelvinHall16
today, doing what it is supposed to: unexpectedly connecting unsuspecting people to museum collections
@hunterian
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Tourist in Glasgow this weekend:
@riversidemuseum
,
@The_Tall_Ship
@GovanFerry
@GovanStones
@fossilgrove
@victoriapark
#LindaMcCartney
@KelvingroveArt
@GlasgowMuseums
All really fascinating stuff!
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I had the privilege to spend lots of time in the royal company of
#MaryQueenofScots
in our exhibition
#afterlifeMQS
@hunterian
that ended Sunday.
A big shout out to
@stevenjohnreid
and all Hunterian staff for creating fascinating perspectives on a person we thought we knew.
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No Rabbie Burns tonight
@LyonandTurnbull
but new poetry by a wide range of poets, written about objects from
@hunterian
compiled by Alan Riach
@UofGlasgow
for the Hunterian Friends
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Had the pleasure of a first meet&greet with
@FionaHyslop
at this event. It turns out
@hunterian
and
@GlasgowMuseums
together hold about 25% of the 10 million objects recognised of national significance!
#proud
@MuseumsGalScot
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the
@MuseumsGalScot
Recognition scheme for collections of national significance at
@ntlminingmuseum
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Glasgow researchers look at the life of Mary Queen of Scots in new project
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Is it just me or am I seeing dinosaurs everywhere?
#hunterianmuseum
#botanicalgarden
#universityofglasgow
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Proud to host Culture Minister
@ChristinaSNP
and MSP's
@kaukabstewart
@patrickharvie
@FoysolChoudhury
in
@hunterian
@UofGlasgow
for this event marking Scottish Government commitment to
We welcome this news that Scottish Government has accepted the Steering Group’s recommendations on how Scotland’s involvement in empire, colonialism & historic slavery can be addressed using museum collections & spaces.
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Had the opportunity yesterday to visit the
#RembrandtsLight
exhibition
@DulwichGallery
. The small
@hunterian
Entombment shines in the beautifully lit show. Label contains film type description of the scene. With thanks to
@jenartscott
for the tour
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Thank you
@AGrayArchive
for this kind gift. Next stage in discovering this remarkable artist.
#lanark
@hunterian
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Great news!
Glasgow museum lands major Leonardo da Vinci art display to mark the 500th anniversary of his death
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Spent 3 hours today in
@NMAAHC
. Powerful and moving displays. 3 hours by no means enough time. Thank you
@smithsonian
colleagues for taking the time. More to come tomorrow.
@DavidDuncan64
@P14Murray
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Last days of packing before refurb of
@burrellcollect
really starts. Great museum reopens in 2020
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Looking back on a moving & inspiring session
#Museums2020
on restitution & repatriation. Looking at what we gain is the biggest takeaway, beautifully expressed by Valorie Walters from
@ChickasawNation
Maasai's Samwel Nangiria and
@mpbay_xx
@ward_esme
@prm_laurita
@NeilGWCurtis
#Museums2020
moving video clip of handover ceremony
@McrMuseum
@ward_esme
‘we should talk about what we gain from repatriation rather than what we lose’ - absolutely
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Great talk by
@profdanhicks
against the backdrop of
@hunterian
in 1870 (the move with
@UofGlasgow
to Gilmorehill), also the start of a period of colonial violence in Africa.
Thanks so much to everyone who came to hear me at the
@hunterian
this evening—great questions & conversations afterwards. Always such a joy to be in Glasgow. Thanks esp to Steph
@hunteriandir
& the whole Hunterian team—Watch this space/
@PlutoPress
for the book version next year!
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Last night in Japan, after intensive days
#icomkyoto2019
and
@umactokyo
, and a bit of R&R😊
Got to visit the biggest buddhas of Japan in Nara and Kamakura (size does matter🤔), 2 of Japan's ancient capitals. With visits to Tokyo, Kyoto and Asuka also, I think I got the big 5.
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First of 3 days on
#AudaciousIdeas
in
#universitymuseums
@loweartmuseum
in Miami. Thank you
#AAMG2018
and
#umac
for organising!
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Enjoyed a very informative tour of beautiful Hill House
@HistEnvScot
in Helensburgh this morning after last Friday's second visit to
@GSA
(no pictures allowed 🤔). Interesting to see different conservation/reconstruction approaches. Makes one wonder what is most authentic
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Had a socially distant walk with
@hunterian
curator Joseph Sharples, that took us past some
@GLAMackintosh
highlights. The minister from Ruckhill Parish Church invited us in to have a look at the Church Hall interior, with food parcels being prepped. A treat!
@MackQueensCross
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