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Our next Relaxed Concert featuring our talented @sotauol students will be on Fri 28 Feb.
Enjoy a drink, cake and music in the original Grand Entrance Hall of our gloriously neo-Gothic Victorian building.
Tickets from £10, refreshments included.
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eventbrite.co.uk/e/vgm-relax…
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We've got FREE family arts & crafts on Wednesday 19 February between 11am - 3pm.
We'll be making mindful breathing buddies and character building flowers, all in the name of #FeelGoodFebruary.
Come and spend #HalfTerm with us!
#SEND friendly, all welcome.
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We'll be cheering on #LeeMovie for a @BAFTA tomorrow, as well as our usual championing of the artist behind the mask, the excellent Mitzi Solomon Cunliffe.
We have three Cunliffe commissions in our collection and we talk more about them here:
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vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/blog/202…
#BAFTA
ALT Mitzi Cunliffe, designer of the BAFTA trophy (© Estate of the Artist)
ALT BAFTA host David Tennant with Mitzi's mask © BAFTA
ALT Kate Winslet as Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller © Sky Movies/Sky.com #LeeMovie
ALT Mitzi Solomon Cunliffe's 'Loosestrife', commissioned by the University of Liverpool, part of the #LivUniCollections
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Did you know that the world’s first radio message was sent from @LivUni's Victoria Building Jubilee Clock Tower?
Professor Oliver Lodge was one of the early pioneers of radio and this blog charts his time at Liverpool for
#WorldRadioDay
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"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
A little #WednesdayWisdom from Frida Kahlo, whose life story we're screening on Saturday 1 March.
Click for trailer:
youtube.com/watch?v=HRHFxTRX…
Click to book:
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📣VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY📣
Spotlight Talks: Choose an item from our collections to research and present a short talk to visitors at a time and date to suit you.
More info and sign up here:
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uolmuseums.volunteermakers.o…
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Take a little trip back in time with us today, Saturday 8 February, at 2pm with a FREE guided tour.
Walk-in spaces available.
Today doesn't suit? Check out Eventbrite for alternative dates. Every Tuesday and selected Saturdays throughout the year.
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Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool retweeted
7 Feb 2025
J.M.W. Turner & his Contemporaries: Watercolours from the University of Liverpool Collection is now open at @VictoriaGallery! 🎨
Celebrate Turner’s 250th anniversary with this vibrant exhibition, on display until 31 May 2025.
Find out more ➡️ brnw.ch/21wQxFS
ALT J.M.W. Turner: The Vale of Ashburnham, Sussex, c.1816 (Pencil, watercolour with gum Arabic and scratching out)
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Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool retweeted
6 Feb 2025
I very much like these pictures (and others) by @JasmirCree96266 in the @VictoriaGallery, Liverpool, currently on exhibition. Powerful and haunting.
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This is our proud curator Amanda standing next to Richard Young's Morning Interior which is on loan from the #LivUniCollections to the Lives Less Ordinary exhibition at the fabulous Two Temple Place Gallery in London.
Info here 👇
twotempleplace.org/events/li…
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Artist Jim Russell had told his daughter Kath he sold this painting, called 'Having A Look' to a Liverpool gallery but he didn't say which one.
A chance visit by friends of Kath led to this lovely reunion last Saturday.
Having a Look is currently on display in Seeing Green.
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Hey, Tate Hall Teeth fans! We know there's plenty of you out there...
We just wanted to let you know that there's another way to spot our fabulous fangs on your tellybox.
Sky History's series Medieval Dead features information on the Battle of Waterloo in Series 3, Episode 7.
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Thanks to all who joined us for Lunar New Year this past weekend.
Our next FREE Family Session will be half term, Wed 19 Feb. Our theme is Feel-Good February and we'll be making jellyfish breathing buddies and character building flowers.
Drop in Wed 19 Feb, 11am - 3pm. FREE!
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📣NOW OPEN | JMW Turner & His Contemporaries: Watercolours from the University of Liverpool Collection
✨Don't miss our captivating exhibition showcasing the vibrant world of JMW Turner on display until 31 May 2025.
Read more ➡️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/02…
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Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool retweeted
Celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Snake with LCI.
This weekend we will be providing Chinese calligraphy and wood block printing as part of Liverpool's celebrations.
1st Feb @VictoriaGallery 11am - 3pm
2nd Feb China Town with @CultureLPool 11am - 5pm
ALT Woman writing Chinese calligraphy
ALT Two women writing Chinese calligraphy
ALT Wood block printing
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It's the Year of the Snake this year, so here's the story of visitor favourite Monty from the museum!
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vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/blog/202…
Our Lunar New Year family celebrations take place this Saturday 1 February between 11am - 3pm with @Movema and @UOL_Confucius.
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We're officially OUT of Liverpool Urban Sketchers books (booo) but we have a fine stock of beautiful @Geoff_Drake photography books in, perfect for your post-Christmas coffee table or a brilliant birthday gift! 📸🤳
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Keeping a candle lit on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 🕯️
#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgain #WeRemember #HMD2025 #HMD25
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It's Burns Night on Saturday, so we've picked Brave as January's free family film.
Join Merida in Medieval Scotland and watch her discover the true meaning of courage!
Saturday 25 January
2.30pm
FREE!
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