Associate Director of Collections Services @sciencemuseum Group, walker, fan: maps, culture, heritage, local distinctiveness. Gay, use hearing aids. Views own
Joined August 2009
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Jack Kirby retweeted
5 Aug 2024
For the last two years, our Sound and Vision Youth Forum have been helping us to shape our new galleries, and the future of the museum 🌟
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Jack Kirby retweeted
30 Jul 2024
We are conducting a survey of LGBTQ people to establish whether there are any barriers to career progression. We are encouraging ALL LGBTQ people to complete it and tell their friends to do the same. Thx for spreading the word prideinleadership.co.uk/news… @PinkNews @AttitudeMag
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Jack Kirby retweeted
23 Jul 2024
Very sorry to hear of the passing of design legend Sir Kenneth Grange. I was privileged to meet him a few times when he gave @RailwayMuseum his personal collection of High Speed Train items including the model he's holding here. So many everyday items have his touch. A gentleman.
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Jack Kirby retweeted
19 Jul 2024
Our new, free special exhibition, Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine, is now open.
Explore an incredible variety of objects, artworks and personal accounts that tell inspiring stories of scientists and innovators, collaborating around the globe, and people right here in Manchester.
Find out more and plan your visit bit.ly/3SdlZo6
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Jack Kirby retweeted
27 Jun 2024
📢Amazing news! We've been shortlisted for the @kidsinmuseums #FamilyFriendlyMuseum Award 2024 🥳
We're thrilled to have been rated one of the Best Large Museums for families in the UK.
Congratulations to all the other museums who've been shortlisted!
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Jack Kirby retweeted
25 Jun 2024
Have you been involved in collecting, documenting, digitising or engaging people with #spontaneousmemorials, after tragic events such as mass violence attacks or disasters? If so, please consider completing this online survey (deadline 15/7/24). Please RT qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/j…
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Jack Kirby retweeted
22 Jun 2024
Today is #WindrushDay, marking 76 years since the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush.
Here are some incredible photos from our Daily Herald Archive taken in 1948 of passengers arriving at Tilbury Docks from Jamaica.
📷 Science Museum Group Collection
@WindrushGeneral
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Jack Kirby retweeted
15 Jun 2024
📣 Congratulations to our Director, Sally MacDonald, who has been awarded an OBE for services to the arts and heritage in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours list bit.ly/3Vji6ih 🧵
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Jack Kirby retweeted
12 Jun 2024
Tonight at the museum the @longitude_prize on antimicrobial resistance was awarded to the PA-100 AST System from Sysmex Astrego, an innovative diagnostic testing device to transform the treatment of UTIs.
Learn more in our latest blog by @RogerHighfield: bit.ly/3VnX3uY
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Jack Kirby retweeted
11 Jun 2024
A lovely tribute to my friend and colleague Nick Molyneux (also know as @IndianaMolyneux). He will be very much missed. theguardian.com/science/arti…
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Jack Kirby retweeted
11 Jun 2024
Beyond excited about this new (permanent, full-time) curatorial role @RMGreenwich: Curator of Maps and Mobilities tinyurl.com/36k8t22e. Please share! #curator #cartography #navigation #maps #globes #global #maritime #mobility #trade #migration #museumjobs
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Jack Kirby retweeted
10 Jun 2024
Sad to say that our brilliant @NatMuseumsNI Education Manager is leaving us for pastures new, so we’re on the lookout for someone to take the baton from her to head up our hugely important education service nijobfinder.co.uk/job/109307… Please share
ALT Female school pupils in blue blazers in an art gallery at a museum
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Jack Kirby retweeted
1 Jun 2024
Colleagues joined together today to march in the York Pride parade. Come and see us on York Kavesmire for fun actives and to find out about our research project People, Pride and Progress #YorkPride2024
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Very pleased to have seen this - @LocomotionSHD - great to see a railway flat with Universal Carrier as we approach #DDay80 when they would have been a regular sight across Britain
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11…
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Jack Kirby retweeted
24 May 2024
@LocomotionSHD's New Hall is now open to the public! 🎉
The museum, part of the Science Museum Group and set in Shildon, County Durham, showcases engineering feats and locomotive legends right in the birthplace of the railways.
The addition of New Hall means there’s even more to explore. With an extra 47 vehicles inside the building, Locomotion is now the largest undercover display of heritage railway vehicles in Europe!
Find out more 🔽
locomotion.org.uk/whats-on/n…
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Jack Kirby retweeted
📣 Job Opportunity!
Marketing & Digital Officer (Maternity Cover)
12-month fixed-term position
craftanddesign.com/about-us/…
Closing date for applications: 24th June 2024 at midday
ALT Group of people inside Manchester Craft and Design Centre
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Jack Kirby retweeted
17 May 2024
The restoration of the Station Agent’s House by our partner @LandmarkTrust is complete!
It's the first time one of Manchester's oldest surviving Georgian houses will be accessible to the public and enjoyed as a residence for 100 years.
Take a first look at these free events 👇
17 May 2024
🎉 We're overjoyed to have officially opened the doors of the Station Agent's House in partnership with @sim_manchester. 1/2
ALT A group of people standing in a hallway next to an open green door
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Jack Kirby retweeted
10 May 2024
New Hall opens in just two weeks! Join us on Friday 24 May and be the first to experience Europe’s largest undercover collection of railway vehicles 😁
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Jack Kirby retweeted
4 May 2024
On this day in 1904 Charles Rolls first met Henry Royce and they set up Rolls-Royce soon after 🚗
You can see one of the first Rolls-Royce motorcars in our Revolution Manchester gallery, it's one of only three remaining cars of this type.
Discover more bit.ly/4275k8O
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Jack Kirby retweeted
30 Apr 2024
Amazing #Archives job vacancy - Project Lead: 40 Years Of HIV Activism in Greater Manchester at @GeorgeHouseTrst ght.org.uk/project-lead-40-y… deadline: 15 May
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