Glyn Morgan

📌 I should probably go cold turkey but instead I am slowly winding down my engagement with this site. So, if you want to connect I suggest Bluesky is the best social to reach me on, other links are in my bio's linktree: bsky.app/profile/grmorg…

📢📣Job Klaxon 📣📢 - Anyone want to do my job? Curatorial Lead (Public Programmes), working with teams throughout @sciencemuseum to develop, deliver and share exhibitions, events and other wonderful things that celebrate science and our collections: ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_webre…

But really, follow me on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/grmorg…

Popping back in to share some big news

📢 I'm doing a FREE online event on Thurs 16th Jan talking with Alexander Collins of the @WallaceMuseum about Science and Splendour at the court of Versailles, join us - wallacecollection.org/whats-on/event…

Merry Christmas from all of us at the Science Museum! 🎄 📷 Image: Pineapple in a pot, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1733. 🎁 Did you know on Christmas Day 1733, King Louis XV received a royal treat: the first pineapple grown in the gardens of Versailles! 🍍 © Château de Versailles, Dist. RMN © Christophe Fouin

Meet King Louis XV’s rhino - the OG chonky boi! 🦏 👑 #OnThisDay in 1769, he was sent from India to France as a gift for the French king. And until April 2025 you can see him in London at the Science Museum’s #Versailles exhibition which I helped to curate! 🧵…

To @sciencemuseum, there to visit the show on Versailles: Science & Splendour H/t @issy_muir

@holland_tom @sciencemuseum @issy_muir Thanks for coming Tom, I hope you enjoyed it!

Reviews are in for Versailles: Science and Splendour! ✨🔬✨ Check out what critics are saying about our majestic new exhibition - now on until 21 April 2025: bit.ly/3ZwI2c4 📸 Clock of the Creation of the World, designed by Claude-Siméon Passemant © Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Thierry Ollivier. 📸 Optical microscope, by Claude-Siméon Passemant, with bronzework attributed to Jacques and Philippe Caffieri © Château de Versailles, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Christophe Foui. 📸 Eclipsarium, designed by Ole Rømer and made by Isaac Thuret © Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

@rachellefabbott Thanks for having me!

Don’t miss the "Versailles: Science and Splendour" exhibition at the @sciencemuseum in London, where history meets innovation! Developed with @CVersailles, this highlight is a must-see for history lovers and watch enthusiasts alike. #Versailles #MarieAntoinette #Sciencemuseum

I spoke to #TheStandardPodcast about Cassini's Moon Map 🌝 Louis XV's Rhinoceros 🦏 and of course Marie Antoinette's Watch ⌚

#TheStandardPocast How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares? - With @theLDNstandard transport editor @RossLydall Plus! Marie Antoinette’s £24 million ‘smartwatch’ & first moon map - With @ScienceMuseum’s curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr @GR_Morgan on Versailles: Science & Splendour Production by @_MarkBlunden & @rachellefabbott 🎧pod.fo/e/290af4

What was our favourite thing in the fascinating new exhibition about science at Versailles which opened at the @sciencemuseum last night? Has to be the Indian rhinoceros that lived in the palace menagerie until dying in mysterious circumstances in the Revolution. sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/ver…

#TheStandardPocast How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares? - With @theLDNstandard transport editor @RossLydall Plus! Marie Antoinette’s £24 million ‘smartwatch’ & first moon map - With @ScienceMuseum’s curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr @GR_Morgan on Versailles: Science & Splendour Production by @_MarkBlunden & @rachellefabbott 🎧pod.fo/e/290af4

Topping off a very successful launch for 'Versailles: Science and Splendour' last night with a conference welcoming remarkable speakers to the @sciencemuseum today.

Versailles: Science and Splendour opens today! ✨ Explore the opulence of Versailles and see the Palace in a new light - from marvellous objects to inspiring human stories, discover how science played a vital role in projecting power for the French monarchy. Book your tickets now: bit.ly/3OP5BrX

@NationCymru That's an image of the MI6 headquarters

MI5 has had to ‘pare back’ its counterterrorism focus because of the growing threat from Russia and other hostile states, the security agency’s boss has said buff.ly/3BhYXqQ

And @MarkBould3 (co-)edited two of them! So we know who the real productive person is

Today I got my author copy of 'Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums', ed. by Kristin Alford. By sheer fluke that means I've had four books published this year to which I've contributed essays or chapters, which makes me seem far more productive than I feel.