This time last year @jmc.anderson and I were setting up our #constellations artwork in a beach hut for @firstlightlowestoft and the summer solstice βοΈπ« #artinthehuts #artinstallation
Come and join our growing team working with @museumealife collection remotely π« π»
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We’re looking for more remote volunteers to join our team and help us with our collection. Search for the Stars is our innovative project to catalogue our collection of c.40,000 objects. We need people to help to improve readability and searchability of existing digital records and help us to highlight ‘star objects’ along the way! To find out more email kate.knowlden@eastanglianlife.org.uk
#volunteer #searchforthestars #museumofeastanglianlife #remotevolunteering
3 years ago on Earth Day I curated this event in a patch of woodland in Norwich with lots of amazing artists showcasing the work they do exploring and protecting nature - such a brilliant day πΏβ π¨ @theearthissue @_thewayoftea_ @genevieverudd @alexpreeve
#Repost @museumealife (@get_repost)
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Use your time at home to develop new skills and give something backβ¨ We’re on the hunt for remote volunteers to help us with an exciting project π
Our ‘Search for the Stars’ project, aims to transfer all of our 40,000 paper based object records over to our online collection.
If you’d like to join the team, please get in touch with our curator Kate Knowlden on Kate.knowlden@eastanglianlife.org.uk
Or for more details about the project, head over to our website www.eastanglianlife.org.uk/search-for-the-stars-from-your-home
#collections #searchforthestars #volunteer #workfromhome #volunteerremotely
Found these amazing glass plate negatives back when I was studying my degree in photography and was looking for some plates to reprint astronomy pictures onto, couldn't face destroying these guys though πΆπ±
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Brilliant day learning how to identify and preserve photos πΈ #SHAREmuseumseast
A day well spent planting hedges at @museumealife πΏ
At the @britishmuseum yesterday to celebrate and graduate our amazing trainee Lois who leaves us tomorrow for pastures new π’ #museumfutures #skillsforthefuture
Amazing day visiting @gressenhall_fw with Lois - we even had a go at ploughing a field π²π΄ π΄
Loving these milk bottles coming into our collection π₯ @museumealife
Made a wreath for the museum with cuttings from the grounds π€ΆπΏ
Spent Friday with Lois and @sallyfdix transforming our "StarShed Enterprise" π to document our historic costume collectionππ§₯ #shootingstarsproject #mobilephotographycollection #historiccostume
Abbot's Hall looking beautiful in the winter light β
A couple of days ago when it was drier; Abbot's Hallβ π³
Day out to Anglesey Abbey with Papa John πΈ π― π
#angleseyabbeynt
πππApple pressing dream team at #ciderandsong πππ
Pressed our own apple juice at work today in preparation for Cider and Song this weekend π π π γ»γ»γ»
Sampling the first juice with the apple press ready for Saturday! Why not bring your apples along to be pressed? #apples #applepressing #ciderandsong #applejuice
Little trip to York for work
Learnt how to mount and condition historic costume at #sharemuseums training yesterday πππ
#mountingcostume #historiccostume #museummondays #SHAREmuseumseast