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Although they're extinct, we're still learning about this brilliant bird.
Our collection holds six amazing great auk eggs – one is almost 250 years old!
In 2017, we started a project with @sheffielduni to study the eggs, which is teaching us about the bird's breeding ecology🤯
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This jolly #Xmas circular (1882) for #shopping at W Rowntree's of #Scarborough promises "fancy goods" suitable for Christmas and New Year's presents #ArchiveAdventCalendar @ARAScot
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Siege coins were emergency issues of coinage improvised by officials in cities under siege, and often cut up from dinnerware & jewellery.
Here's a short history just published by @CoinWeek: coinweek.com/emergency-money…
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Flying high over #Scarborough in Henri Salmet's Bleriot monoplane must have been quite an #adventure during the summer of 1913! #EYAAdventure #ExploreYourArchive
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We lucked out on the weather today for our Grimshaw trail with Wykeham School. Exploring the places in Scarborough that Grimshaw loved and painted 🌚 – at Yorkshire and The Humber, England
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The answer to last week's mystery object: paoloviscardi.com/2022/10/21…
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I love this old Fossil Grove booklet held in the Scarborough Collections - it cost one shilling when it was published in 1948 🖤
As part of #ScotGeolFest there’s an open day on Sun 18th from 12-4, head along to visit this fossilised Carboniferous forest in the heart of Glasgow 🎉
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In my happy place hanging out in @ScarbsMuseums stores 🖤
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Is there a job vacancy in the museum, art or heritage sector that you'd like to let people know about? Museum Studies Jobs Desk will be resuming on 11 August - use the online form to let us know of posts you'd like to advertise. #jobsdesk #museumjobs
le.ac.uk/museum-studies/jobs…
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Valley Bridge in #Scarborough was officially opened after it had been widened #OnThisDay in 1928
The images below show the bridge before and after widening to 64 and a half feet
#OTD #ExploreYourArchive
📷Before: SC116320 After: SC116335
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Time to make a cuppa and take ten minutes - we've got not one but TWO brand new #FromLocalToGlobal articles for you today! 🤩
Check out what's new, including a exploration of how we've engaged our brilliant Citizen Researchers in a new and unique way ⬇️
fromlocaltoglobal.co.uk/what…
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New unique discoveries in the Polish Lower Jurassic. Another hundreds of dinosaur tracks and one really surprising find is the imprint of the hind limb of a predatory dinosaur, we rub our eyes in amazement. Stay tuned. #PolishJurassic ; #Borkowice ; #Dinosaurs ; #Hettangian
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BBC Radio 4 - Metamorphosis - How Insects Transformed Our World, Dazzling Disguise
Today 1.45 -it’s all about the benefits of bling! Featuring interviews with @DrDWaterhouse @KarinKjernsmo @drewyhart & Prof Andrew Parker
🦋🦋🦋 @RagsandRuby @NHM_London
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017k7…
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Photographic evidence of Festival director @fossiliam receiving our award from the @GeolAssoc at the National Coal Mining Museum on #YorkshireGeologyDay!
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Colonel Hely-Hutchinson comes home to Scarborough - over 100 years later!
This Valentine Princep portrait of the great-grandfather of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell is now proudly on display in Sitwell @Eatmecafe the Woodend café which was once the Sitwell's dining room.
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For a Bank Holiday #MapMonday, here's detail from a plan of the town and environs of #Scarborough (1828) by John Wood, showing the museum at the end of the 'Road to the Sands' #ExploreYourArchive
📷ZOX
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Visited the Stonehenge Exhibition at the @britishmuseum today and the first exhibit is an item on loan from Scarborough Museum! @SMTrust
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This year marks the 200th anniversary of a great advance in our understanding of the geological past… a story which begins in the nineteenth century, with the discovery of a bone-filled cave in Kirkdale, Yorkshire.
morethanadodo.com/2022/03/06…





































