📌 I should probably go cold turkey but instead I am slowly winding down my engagement with this site. So, if you want to connect I suggest Bluesky is the best social to reach me on, other links are in my bio's linktree: bsky.app/profile/grmorgan.bs…

📢📣Job Klaxon 📣📢 - Anyone want to do my job? Curatorial Lead (Public Programmes), working with teams throughout @sciencemuseum to develop, deliver and share exhibitions, events and other wonderful things that celebrate science and our collections: ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce011…

📢 I'm doing a FREE online event on Thurs 16th Jan talking with Alexander Collins of the @WallaceMuseum about Science and Splendour at the court of Versailles, join us - wallacecollection.org/whats-…

Merry Christmas from all of us at the Science Museum! 🎄 📷 Image: Pineapple in a pot, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1733. 🎁 Did you know on Christmas Day 1733, King Louis XV received a royal treat: the first pineapple grown in the gardens of Versailles! 🍍 © Château de Versailles, Dist. RMN © Christophe Fouin

Meet King Louis XV’s rhino - the OG chonky boi! 🦏 👑 #OnThisDay in 1769, he was sent from India to France as a gift for the French king. And until April 2025 you can see him in London at the Science Museum’s #Versailles exhibition which I helped to curate! 🧵…

To @sciencemuseum, there to visit the show on Versailles: Science & Splendour H/t @issy_muir

Reviews are in for Versailles: Science and Splendour! ✨🔬✨ Check out what critics are saying about our majestic new exhibition - now on until 21 April 2025: bit.ly/3ZwI2c4 📸 Clock of the Creation of the World, designed by Claude-Siméon Passemant © Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Thierry Ollivier. 📸 Optical microscope, by Claude-Siméon Passemant, with bronzework attributed to Jacques and Philippe Caffieri © Château de Versailles, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Christophe Foui. 📸 Eclipsarium, designed by Ole Rømer and made by Isaac Thuret © Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Don’t miss the "Versailles: Science and Splendour" exhibition at the @sciencemuseum in London, where history meets innovation! Developed with @CVersailles, this highlight is a must-see for history lovers and watch enthusiasts alike. #Versailles #MarieAntoinette #Sciencemuseum

I spoke to #TheStandardPodcast about Cassini's Moon Map 🌝 Louis XV's Rhinoceros 🦏 and of course Marie Antoinette's Watch ⌚

#TheStandardPocast How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares? - With @theLDNstandard transport editor @RossLydall Plus! Marie Antoinette’s £24 million ‘smartwatch’ & first moon map - With @ScienceMuseum’s curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr @GR_Morgan on Versailles: Science & Splendour Production by @_MarkBlunden & @rachellefabbott 🎧pod.fo/e/290af4

What was our favourite thing in the fascinating new exhibition about science at Versailles which opened at the @sciencemuseum last night? Has to be the Indian rhinoceros that lived in the palace menagerie until dying in mysterious circumstances in the Revolution. sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and…

#TheStandardPocast How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares? - With @theLDNstandard transport editor @RossLydall Plus! Marie Antoinette’s £24 million ‘smartwatch’ & first moon map - With @ScienceMuseum’s curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr @GR_Morgan on Versailles: Science & Splendour Production by @_MarkBlunden & @rachellefabbott 🎧pod.fo/e/290af4

Topping off a very successful launch for 'Versailles: Science and Splendour' last night with a conference welcoming remarkable speakers to the @sciencemuseum today.

Versailles: Science and Splendour opens today! ✨ Explore the opulence of Versailles and see the Palace in a new light - from marvellous objects to inspiring human stories, discover how science played a vital role in projecting power for the French monarchy. Book your tickets now: bit.ly/3OP5BrX