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Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· 5d

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'Scottish art' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Agnes Miller Parker was born in Ayrshire & studied at the Glasgow School of Art. Skilled at painting and drawing, she became interested in printmaking and taught herself wood engraving - the medium in which she would find acclaim.

A print made by woodcutting. On parchment in black and white, a cat is poised to attack, snarling at something just out of our sight.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· 12d

We were delighted to welcome Amber Butchart to Ashes to Fashion today! Her work as a fashion & textiles historian centres the stories of the people behind the clothes, humanising and bringing complexity to garments.

In the forefront of this photograph, a mannequin wears a bold, frilly pink dress with dress sparkles. In the background, two women regard the dress, smiling and looking on thoughtfully.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· 14d

"We Should All Be Feminists" Newly on display, this t-shirt featured in Maria Grazia Chiuri's debut collection as the first female creative director at Dior. It was inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay and TEDx talk of the same name.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· 19d

'A Tale about a tail—a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin.' This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'nature and animals' for 'An A to Z of Beatrix Potter' at The Armitt 🦔

A watercolour of a lush green forest, with a red squirrel nibbling on some red berries on a branch.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Jul 9

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is sacred symbols, chosen with Liverpool Cathedral. Colin Middleton (1910-83) is one of NI's most treasured painters. 'Christ Androgyne' (1943) uses Surrealism to express his deep unease at the events of the Second World War & the suffering of those caught up in it.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Jun 22

What's rarer than a tropical rainforest? A #TemperateRainforest, which makes up less than 1% of global land cover. 🍃 Today is #WorldRainforestDay, so put on your wellies, grab a hand lens, and step into one of the rarest rainforest ecosystems in the world → bit.ly/4xoSG55

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Jun 11

⚽ Who's ready for the #FIFAWorldCup? Who's your team? This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'football for the FIFA World Cup' 🏆 To celebrate, we've taken a deep dive into our archives to find some of our favourite football related photographs. @artukdotorg.bsky.social

Group of five girls playing football together

Girl playing outside by herself kicking a football against the wall

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Jun 8

It's #WorldOceanDay, let's look at sponges! 🧽 It's hard to identify species of sponges by eye. Spicules, which make up the sponge's skeleton, are the most accurate indicator of species.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· May 28

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'wallpaper' to mark 'The Art of Wallpaper' at the Watts Gallery. This painting's use of pointillism brings an incredible vibrancy, from the wallpaper to the carpet to the clothing, that reflects the excitement of the titular arrival.

A bright and vibrant scene of a group of younger adults in a living room. They sit in a circle reading and talking, while a man joins them, his coat being removed by one of the party-goers.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· May 20

A doll in our collection. She has short brown hair, a linen dress with blue accents, and an expression that says 'I am a Schoenhut doll, manufactured in America in 1938, collected for my historical importance, why am I being used as a reaction image on social media'.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· May 14

If we had to spent an hour in a locked room with our creature or this...doll...we know which one we're picking. Just saying. We've seen the movies.

A 1960s doll that Barnsley Museums insisted on posting on social media, even though it gives us all the heebie jeebies. The doll has short blond hair, a 60s bright pink and orange dress, rather cute black strappy sandals, and a knowing smile on her face, with a hint of evil behind the eyes.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· May 14

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is myths and legends to celebrate 'Cornish Myths & Legends' at Cornwall Museum! Dhruva Mistry was born in India & spent illustrious years in the UK. Much of his work has been concerned with the idea of animal-human hybrids to suggest creatures of fabulous power.

A scuplture of a strange creature - the hooved body of a giraffe, with a shortened neck and a human's head. The colouring is almost of a cheetah, with golden fur and deep golden spots, and a tail that whips out behind the body.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· May 12

"If you had 30 seconds to sum up your whole time as a nurse, what do you think you would say?" Today is #InternationalNursesDay ❤️‍🩹🩹🩺 Curator of Modern History, Rebecca Laverty, spent time with nurses who spent their careers at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, Co. Down.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· May 7

🖼 This week's #OnlineArtExchange is ‘urban landscapes’ for the exhibition 'Underground (And Surface)' @ Guildhall Art Gallery. 🏗 'Cranes, Baker Street' was drawn and painted by Kenneth Shoesmith, who travelled the world and designed travel posters for the Royal Mail Line and for Southern Railways.

At the bottom of a watercolour painting, an early 1900s street scene goes past, with a Victorian lamppost and a horse and cart. In the background, the future stretches towards the sky, with a large number of cranes and scaffolding about to progress with work.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· May 1

Our Fashion and Textiles collection holds around 5000 objects, from 16th century needlework to today's fashion - painstakingly rebuilt from the ashes of a collection destroyed by a fire in 1976. Join Curator Charlotte McReynolds in retracing the journey from ashes to fashion → bit.ly/4d4u4pS

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Apr 30

'Making Her Mark: A Celebration of Women in Art' opens today at penleehousegallery.bsky.social, and to celebrate, this week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'women artists'. What an excellent opportunity to share 'I Overslept Until the Evening' (2014) by Makiko Kudo!

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Apr 17

💃 Have you ever danced so hard that you've melted your dress? Watch as Bethany Skuce, Object Conservator, works on a dress made from gelatine sequins → bit.ly/4vzIVQo #AshesToFashion #FashionConservation #FashionHistory

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Apr 15

On this day 85 years ago, Belfast suffered the second of four air raids that have come to be known as the Belfast Blitz. In 1941, Belfast played an increasingly important role in the war effort - but it was not well defended against an attack from the air.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Apr 10

Have you had a look at this astonishing little box in #AshestoFashion? 🔍 On Saturday 18th April, Dr Lynn Hulse examines the environment in which girls from middle & upper-class backgrounds learned to ply their needle, the training they received & the images they chose to stitch → bit.ly/3O6StBH

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Apr 9

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘ancient art’ for Gladiators of Britain & Uncovering Roman Carlisle at @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social! Inniscaltra, also called Holy Island, is an island in Lough Derg. The monastery was founded by St Caimin in the 600s, but was burned by Vikings in 836 and 922 AD.

A painting of an ancient monastery, in ruins, as the sun sets behind it. There are sheep grazing amind the ruins, which are on an island in the middlge of a lough.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Apr 2

"Anyway, here's Wonderwall." Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'music' for 'A Grand Chorus: The Power of Music' @ the Foundling Museum. Judging by her cherubic friend's face, we can only assume the sitter was a beginner. @artukdotorg.bsky.social Lady with a Guitar (c.1600s), unknown. BELUM.U210

An old painting showing a woman dressed in rich fabrics playing an instrument similar to a guitar. A goat sits to her left, while a cherubic figure sits to her right, gazing up at her. The woman's shoes have big pink bows on them.

A close up of an oil painting showing just the face of a cherubic young figure. His eyes, gazing upward, appear out of context to resemble an eye roll.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 27

Takabuti has become an iconic resident at the museum. But who was she? How did she come to be in Northern Ireland? And what is her future? This video features some of the perspectives we’ve been listening to regarding ways of honouring and respecting Takabuti, a mummified woman from Ancient Egypt.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 26

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'tiles'. The tiles of this renaissance church is just one impressive feature captured by Dirck van Delen. Architectural painting reached its peak in the work of seventeenth-century Dutch artists, who notably used architecture as a subject in its own right.

A vast renaissance church with symmetry in its large columns and arhces. People mill about the church, and some animals - dogs and maybe a cat - wander freely. A statue is in the centre of the room, and stretching out in the background we can see a sunny courtyard through the open doors.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 25

Last weekend was the highlight of Monaco’s social calendar: the 70th edition of the Rose Ball. This beautifully cut outfit was worn to the 1988 #RoseBall by Princess Caroline of Monaco. It was designed by Marc Bohan, whose tenure at Dior was marked by classic elegance and tailoring. #AshesToFashion

A shiny red floor-length strapless evening dress. It has a fairly body-hugging silhouette from the top down to the hips, where two large panels flaring out add a dramatic effect.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 17

✋The Shrine of St. Patrick’s Hand dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century. It is still used to hold a relic believed to belong to Saint Patrick. ☘ 600 years later, the shrine is still in use today during St. Patrick’s Day mass at St. Patrick’s Church, Belfast. Learn more → bit.ly/4s8lFaj

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 13

You can now read a new page of the Catalogue of The Native Plants of Ireland by #JohnTempleton (1766-1825), on loan from @rialibrary.bsky.social Paper Conservator Harriet Gillespie shares with us why she turns the pages of books on display. #UlsterMuseum #Botany

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 12

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange is ‘books’ for 'Lady Chatterley’s Cover: The Book Designs of Stephen Russ’ at Chippenham Museum @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social It felt only fitting to share some photographs in our collection of the Old Linenhall Library 📚

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 8

Corset, Vivienne Westwood. Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) remains one of the most influential fashion designers. She began her fashion career in London’s punk scene, and maintained that spirit throughout her designs and career. BELUM.T3352

A corset with a printed design from an romantic classical painting.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 8

Ensemble, Kindred of Ireland. Kindred of Ireland was founded by Amy Anderson, inspired by her grandparent's work in the linen industry. This heritage is woven into Kindred of Ireland's ethos, with sustainability and Irish textiles at the heart of the label. BELUM.T2025.3.1

A long tweed coat with gold flowers over a romantic white frilly shirt and a mid length yellow skirt with gold dots.

Ulster Museum@ulstermuseum· Mar 8

Evening dress and wrap, Sybil Connolly. Sybil Connolly (1921-1998) was an iconic Irish fashion designer dubbed ‘Dublin’s Dior’. She used Irish materials such as linen and tweed, and created haute couture worn by the likes of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. BELUM.T2929