#uk museums

[tweetingukpolitics]

England's archaeological history gathers dust as museums fill up

Experts say time is running out to solve the storage crisis that has long plagued archaeology.

[gwydionmisha]

A pair of UK museums return gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement

Two British museums are returning gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement — 150 years after the items were loo

[romegreeceart]

Enamelled fish brooch

* copper

* 30 mm

* Muntham Court Romano-British site

* Worthing Museum

source: Ivan Bandura, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

[twitterexile]

We identified 39,000 Indigenous Australian objects in UK museums. Repatriation is one option, but takes time to get right

Stone tools, clubs, boomerangs, decorative shellwork: a survey of 45 museums in the UK has found a vast number of Indigenous Australian obje

[kirayamidemon]

Talking briefly bout museums

My mom and I were in the car a few hrs ago and we were talking bout places in Taiwan, or more like I was asking the places to go and see if you were a tourist. One of the places that came up was a museum and the conversation roughly went something like this-

Me: Do you have to buy a ticket or pay to see?

Mom: Of course you do! What place or museum doesn’t require money?

Me: The museums in UK are free! That’s one of the great things they have!

Mom: You know why they’re free? Because they stole all those artifacts and pieces from other countries and put it in their museums for display

And all you can hear in the car is me losing my fucking shit as she kept talking

[romegreeceart]

Electrotype reproduction of a Mycenaean dagger

* Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge

Attribution: Caeciliusinhorto, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

[romegreeceart]

Roman fresco detail

* Posillipo, Villa of Vedius Pollio

* Ashmolean museum

source: Rjdeadly / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

Thieves ripping off thieves

Hundreds of items taken in high-value Bristol Museum archive raid

More than 600 artefacts from the museum's British Empire and Commonwealth collection are taken.