Museum Ian

It’s 100 years since the discovery of #Tutankhamun’s tomb BUT… I’m also very excited to say I have been offered (& have accepted) a place @UniOfYork to study my PhD Took Carter 10yrs to catalogue the tomb, & It’s 10 years since my MA… hopefully won’t take me 10 years for PhD!

😍 Huge thanks to @yorkshirepost for today’s front page & review of #CleoandtheQueens @EBMuseum during @VisitEngland's @EnglishTourismWeek! Huge thanks too to @BoltonLMS, @TheEES, @TheBritishMuseum, @ScarbsMuseums, @WiganMuseum, @EgyptomaniaMuse, World of Glass & @BarnsleyMHT

Bringing Cleopatra 'Home'! From Egyptian queens to Hollywood royalty Barnsley's @ImmortalEgypt TV star Prof Joann Fletcher reigns with her new FREE entry exhibition Cleopatra And The Queens Of Egypt now open at @EBMuseum - go visit! See @GW1962's special report in today's @yorkshirepost and more at yorkshirepost.co.uk/sponsored/firs… @BarnsleyMuseums #ad

Reflecting on #Egypt's goddess Isis in our new exhibition @EBMuseum, this case with loans from @BoltonLMS, @ScarbsMuseums/@northyorksc & Barnsley's own collections also reflecting Howard Carter's largest watercolour, loaned by @TheEES🥰 #CleoandtheQueens (image: I.Trumble)

#Throwback to last week when i was honoured to witness the launch of ‘Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt’ by @ImmortalEgypt @EBMuseum featuring loans from @TheEES and @BoltonLMS 🤩 Don’t miss it! #tbt

📢Tickets now on sale for this year's 'Big Ideas by the Sea' #BIBTS, the North’s leading environmental & creative festival held each May in beautiful #Scarborough - including our study day at: ticketsource.co.uk/bibts/peopling…

A huge congratulations to our consultant Prof Joann Fletcher, on the opening of her latest exhibition “Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt” at Experience Barnsley Museum. We are honoured to have been able to loan some of our collection to this wonderful exhibit. #Barnsley #Museums

Coming soon... opening on 7th March in brilliant Barnsley 😍

On Sunday I delivered my final talk of 2025 to Horwich Heritage, one of the best volunteer run society/museum/archives in the country “Ramesses II in the North: The Great Pharaoh and Where to Find Him” It was a sell out! I’m very grateful to Secretary Derek for the invitation!

🎄Festive blog time with the (Xmas) tree goddess! immortalegypt.co.uk/post/deck-the-… For the traditional sights, smells & tastes at this time of year which can also take us back to #ancientEgypt, deck the halls & give gifts like the superb 2026 cat calendar at: instagram.com/reel/DQJO3udjG…

@egyptomuseum Also the subject of Howard Carter's largest watercolour, which @TheEES has kindly loaned to @BoltonLMS for their wonderful exhibition curated by @trumerz 😍

😍Wow! With the #TurnerPrize announced today in #Yorkshire, finalist #ZadieXa's immersive experience at Bradford's Cartwright Hall so evocative of #Egypt's ancient temples with their original floors of polished silver & golden walls: immortalegypt.co.uk/post/gold-face… (image: I.Trumble)

@jlivemowl @horuswigan Thanks Joan! Glad you enjoyed it! 😊

Fantastic lecture as always by Ian Trumble @trumerz at the wonderful @horuswigan last night. Loved it! 😍

🥳📽️New blog! 'Oscars, BAFTAs & Egypt's Giant GEM' With November featuring both the #GrandEgyptianMuseum opening & 46th International #CairoFilmFestival, we look at the film industry's best known awards & their links to ancient #Egypt immortalegypt.co.uk/post/oscars-ba… (image: J.Fletcher)

Really enjoyed giving this talk to Horus Egyptology Society Wigan on the House of Hatiay at Amarna, featuring archive material from @TheEES and objects from @BoltonLMS, @metmuseum @britishmuseum, @ClevelandArt, @McrMuseum and Cairo One of my last society talks of the year!

Top drawer talk from @trumerz Ian Trumble, Curator of @BoltonLMS Bolton's Egypt on The House of #Hatiay Brilliant!

🌞With a golden background bringing a much-needed solar glow to an overcast day, here is #Egyptian queen Mutemwia with son Amenhotep III, the great #pharaoh whose tomb was recently opened in #Egypt's Valley of the Kings - stunning! (image: MMA facsimile by Nina de Garis Davis)

🤩Beauty overload! "Elizabeth Taylor’s first makeup test for 'Cleopatra', 1961" & image: instagram.com/burtonandtaylo…

🥰On this day 103 years ago, the tomb of #Tutankhamun was discovered. Its subsequent excavation by Howard Carter & team revealed objects naming Tutankhamun's grandfather Amenhotep III & this 5.4cm figurine Carter believed to be Amenhotep himself (image: GEM) #GrandEgyptianMuseum

🥳The Grand Egyptian Museum officially opens today! And perhaps our favourites in the whole amazing place are these twin figures of #pharaoh Amenhotep III, previously stored at Karnak & now facing out towards the #pyramids of #Giza ❤️❤️❤️ (image: R.Haxby) #GrandEgyptianMuseum