Museums
Exhibition: Defying Expectations, Brontë Parsonage Museum
Charlotte Brontë is an icon to many for her writing. But a new exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum is set to focus on another aspect of Charlotte’s life.
Read the full story..“Museums are experts at recording and caring for people’s memories.” Carol Rogers, Director of House of Memories, National Museums Liverpool
House of Memories is an award-winning dementia awareness programme created by National Museums Liverpool.
Read the full story..Exhibition: People’s History Museum’s 2022 Banner Exhibition, Manchester
The People’s History Museum (PHM) in Manchester is preparing to launch its Banner Exhibition for 2022.
Read the full story..“I knew it was a challenge worth taking on.” Max Dunbar reflects on 10 years as Manchester Jewish Museum’s Chief Executive
Ten years ago, I was offered the job of chief executive at Manchester Jewish Museum.
Read the full story..Wondrous Place: Celebrating the City at the Museum of Liverpool
It’s more than 60 years since Liverpool’s original pop pioneer, Billy Fury, released his sinuous version of the song Wondrous Place, and its title continues to be a gift to Mersey mythologists in search of a name for their next civic-minded project.
Read the full story..Manchester Jewish Museum reopens after a decade of planning (and two years closure)
The Jewish people have more history than most.
Read the full story..Review: Use Hearing Protection – The Early Years of Factory Records, Science & Industry Museum, Manchester
Back at the start of last year, Northern Soul spoke to curator Jan Hicks about the then-forthcoming Science and Industry Museum exhibition about Factory – that’s to say, Tony Wilson and co’s now-legendary northern music empire.
Read the full story..Keeping the Brontë spirit alive during Covid: Rebecca Yorke from the Brontë Parsonage Museum talks to Northern Soul
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, had attracted Brontë fans from across the globe. Its collections are the largest and most important in the world and continue to inspire scholars, writers and artists. But The Brontë Society, which was founded in 1893, is a charity. While it receives public funding from Arts Council England, it relies heavily on admissions and the generosity of members for its income. During lockdown, the museum was forced to closed for the first time in more than a century.
Read the full story..Review: Online tour of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, Manchester
As the interactive virtual tour came to an end, our digital guide remarked that they hoped visitors to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House would receive as authentic an experience as “it would have been in Elizabeth’s lifetime”.
Read the full story..Image Gallery: The Female Form Through Time, Discovery Museum, Newcastle
Instagram filters are not the first tool to be used to distort and manipulate the female form.
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