Pierrette Squires

Popped back for a few minutes, learnt Flambards and Dingles Vintage Fairground have both closed down for food this week, childhood holidays in the Southwest will never be the same. I’m retreating back to my books

@oldenoughtosay Having just spent half term with my sisters kids I say Twins is 10 to the power of 2

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Today we turn 140! 🎉🥳 On his death Samuel Taylor Chadwick left £5000 to Bolton for “building, furnishing & maintenance of a Museum of Natural History”. Years have passed but we still have objects from this time in our collection including this penguin which joined us in 1909!

Our first curators were father & son William & Thomas Midgley. In 1907 they helped form The Bolton Field Naturalists’ Society. ✨Big news✨ Our new summer exhibition looks at the Field Nats & the #BirdsofBolton. Exciting things coming at the end of the month - watch this space!

@LancashireFire @manchesterfire is rivington on fire? It smells like burning Peat in Adlington this morning

@JamieBGall I messaged you

I’ve processed hundreds of orders today, but one just broke my heart. A rainbow tardis ordered as a gift to be sent to Ukraine. There aren’t postage services taking deliveries there so I won’t be able to send it. If ever a place needed the Doctor. 💔

Our Conservation Treatment Team apply interventive treatments, informed by the latest research, to preserve our collection. Follow this thread and join us behind-the-scenes as we ask our conservator Kat about her role #AskAConservator

@jdk653 @sciencemuseum Hi Jack, good to see you pop up here, we should catch up in person

@MuseumPierrette Last week was 40 years since my first visit to @sciencemuseum, which seems to have worked out moderately well.

Day 2 #Museum30 my Introduction to Museums was early, one of my first memories is aged about 4 seeing Daniel Lamberts trousers @leicestermuseum now over 40 years later I’m privileged to care for collections and manage a brilliant team

#AskAConservatorDay today. Happy to answer questions about how we care for the collections @BoltonLMS &/or about being a conservator. This is an excellent tool in my arsenal against deterioration from @meacotweet

It’s #AskAConservatorDay did you know this was first held in memory of the 1966 Florence floods which happened on the 4th November. Flood awareness is increasingly important with climate change. Ask if you need some advice on caring for wet objects

@Ren_Field87 @BoltonLMS @magnifyzoology Ooh you found the Kakapo 💚

Late to the #Museum30 party as usual so I’m catching up Day 1 #Museum has to be @BoltonLMS I’ll be proud to have worked for the people of Bolton for 20years in April

It's that time of year again! Here are the prompts for #museum30 2023. As always it is a mix of standard prompts and some new additions - will you be taking part this year? bit.ly/museum-30-2023

Just watched one of the most beautiful heart wrenching films I’ve ever seen #TheElectricalLifeOfLouisWain all #Cat people need to watch #BenedictCumberbatch & #ClaireFoy utterly stunning performances