Bedfordshire Museums

Two vacancies at St Albans Museums.

The Marston Vale and Bedford to St Albans City Community Rail Partnerships are working together over a special VE Day concert from Vintage Harmony Group The Femmes. The concert will be around 45 minutes, and will include many well loved songs from the 1940s finishing with a special Vera Lynn medley. A trailer is available at https://tinyurl.com/FemmesVE75trailer. The performance will be available at https://tinyurl.com/FemmesVE75concert from Thursday 7th May (for previewing) until Monday 11th May inclusive.

We have added some resources to keep children (and adults) entertained during lockdown -follow the links from our homepage for 'families' or 'home schooling help' https://www.bunyanmeeting.co.uk/museum #MuseumfromHome Raring2go Bedford #HomeSchooling #activities

New hardship fund for museum freelancers who can’t get financial support from the Government.

From Herts MDO: Good Morning This weeks #Localmuseumsunite theme is Transport and was suggested by Cristina Harrison, Curator at Much Hadham Forge Museum.... Introduction text for the week beginning Mon 27th April This week’s #LocalMuseumsUnite theme is #Transport. We may not be going anywhere right now but let’s look back at some of the wonderful ways we used to get about. Much Hadham Forge Museum is home to collections from the Hadhams including a siding board from Hadham Station on the lost Buntingford Railway Line #MuseumAtHome Daily themes for the week beginning Mon 27th April Mon 20th Intro / then first post - #vintagevehicles (Steam power, Magnificent motors, buses, bikes and buggies (carts or prams) Does someone have a pic of the first ever roundabout.?) Tue 28th - #byrail (More steam engines, first class, animals crossing, level crossings, beautiful stations ) Wed 29th - #byanimal l (Horses, cows, zebras - mainly in Tring) Thu 30th - #afloat (Canals, rivers, lakes, ponds and how to stay afloat ) Fri 1st - #unusualtransport (Carnival floats, unicycles, carried on a litter) This google sheet gives details of all the themes suggested so far. Please review it and add other themes you would like to see: https://docs.google.com//1Ryg2L4kZE5S7Yv0AP9N0gpOcsy/edit

That mermaid is hard to beat on the creepy scale

It’s great to see Bedfordshire museums joining in with #LocalMuseumsUnite. Here’s an update from the Herts MDO: #LocalMuseumsUnite Thank you to all the museums contributing to this week’s #localmuseumunite theme. It’s been great to see all your #TelevisionShow during this week.... Next week’s theme is Villages and was suggested by Sara Taylor, Hertford Museum’s curator to support their current exhibition High Streets & Hedgerows: Bayford & Little Berkhamsted. Introduction text for the week beginning Mon 20th April #LocalMuseumsUnite this week to support @HertfordMuseum’s current exhibition High Streets & Hedgerows: Bayford & Little Berkhamsted! Many of our museums are in Villages or have Villages in their collecting areas so let's share our best images. #VillageLife #MuseumAtHome Daily themes for the week beginning Mon 20th April Mon 20th Intro / then first post - #LoveYourVillage (Anything and everything village related. Celebrations, Fetes, VE Day, Best Cake, Best Veg, Maypoles, Morris Dancers, Shops, Markets, Churches and Picture-Perfect Buildings) Tue 21st - #VillageStories (myths, legends and unusual happenings) Wed 22nd - #VillageGreen (Cows, Cricket and Bowling Greens) Thu 23rd - #VillageCharacter (Have an historical portrait of a notable or interesting villager. Time to Share it) Fri 24th - #VillagePubs (Oldest Pub, Favourite Pub, Prettiest Pub ) Please let me have your suggestions for themes starting w/b 27/4/20. Thank you

Hi all Next week’s #localmuseumsunite theme will be Villages suggested by Hertford Museum. I have #villagelife as a dialy theme, can anyone suggest any other daily themes we could do? A quick reminder of this week’s #localmuseums unite themes:... Introduction text for the week beginning Mon 13th April #LocalMuseumsUnitethis week to support @EBWMuseumHerts Holby City at 20 exhibition! Join their Museum Manager for an exclusive behind the scenes look at the exhibition here - https://youtu.be/tx5ma4DlrNo! & on that theme let's share our best #TelevisionShowexamples! #MuseumAtHome Daily themes for the week beginning Mon 13th April Mon 13th Intro / then first post - #TelevisionShow(images from your collection or maybe your organisation has made it onto the telly?!) Tue 14th - #Costumes Wed 15th - #MedicalEquipment Thu 16th - #QuirkyImage(have that special super odd image - time to share it!) Fri 17th - #BehindTheScenes(perhaps of your exhibition spaces, collections care work or your object stores?)

Lots of Exciting new opportunities for our Airship Dreams Project. We're looking for a Community Influencer, Sound Artist and Project Evaluator. Check out the roles on our recruitment page: https://bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/jobopportunities/

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Do you have anything in your collection connected with flight? Check out #LocalMuseumsUnite on Twitter to join in.

The Arts Council has emergency funding for arts organisations including museums who have been affected by COVID-19. There are two rounds in April, and applications have been made fast and easy to do. You can apply for funding of up to 35,000 to cover financial loss you are currently suffering. You must have a Grantium account set up by this Friday 3rd April to apply. https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/covid19

I hope everyone is well and staying safe. This group can be used as a way to share ways your museum collection while you are closed, or to promote any digital content you may have. Feel free to share any other ways you would like to stay connected and use this group. Hertfordshire Association of Museums has begun #HertsBedsHeritage where museums in Beds and Herts can share content, so please check it out and feel free to join in.

A reminder to everyone coming to the Bedfordshire Museums Group meeting tomorrow: please email the museum ahead with your details and bring photo ID.