The team responsible for the Scarborough Museums and Galleries Collections.

Scarborough, England
Joined August 2016
SMG Collections Team retweeted
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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SMG Collections Team retweeted
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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SMG Collections Team retweeted
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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SMG Collections Team retweeted
In my happy place hanging out in @ScarbsMuseums stores 🖤
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#NationalRelaxationDay? ☀️ Smashed it.
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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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SMG Collections Team retweeted
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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SMG Collections Team retweeted
We would buy Twitter just for Library, Museum and Archive Twitter
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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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SMG Collections Team retweeted
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…
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