#MondayMemories Did you make a sampler like this at school? This one was made by Mary Denton in 1853 and appears in our Stories of Childhood exhibition which you can now explore online 💻360° virtual tour bit.ly/StoriesOfChild… 🕙Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm & Saturdays 10am-3:30pm

Wow! Researchers at Barnsley Archives & Local Studies have made the amazing discovery that the worlds first Yorkshire pudding was made in Worsbrough in the 14th century. Visit our website to see the recipe and a full translation of the document written in latin bit.ly/FirstYorkshire…

#ThrowbackThursday It's almost the Easter holidays and there's lots happening at all Barnsley Museums venues. If you're visiting our Stories of Childhood exhibition please share your memories of Easter/this time of year. Here's a couple of photos our Digital Curator has found.

I always like Fake or Fortune, but an episode visiting my favourite building in the world, Barnsley Town Hall Experience Barnsley Museum aswell as the The Cooper Gallery, well my day is made Philip Mould #Gerome. This is fabulous

There's a new ITVX documentary about Dickie Bird, and as you would expect a lot of it was filmed in Barnsley! We have objects on display in the museum by the retired International Cricket Umpire who also features in our podcast bit.ly/DickieBirdPodc…

#MondayMemories Can you remember the first board game you played? There's a few examples in our Stories of Childhood exhibition. 🎲Tomorrow you can come and join us in a free activity and invent your own game to take home with you. 🕒10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm

🐄Today is #NationalFarmAnimalsDay 🐑 These lead toy animals belonged to Elizabeth and were made by her Grandfather in Grimethorpe in the 1950s. They are now on display in our Stories of Childhood exhibition

"The lives of the people in the communities like ours are important, the stories are worth telling and to the kids growing up in Barnsley and towns like it, we hope in some small way this inspires you to tell your story with your own voice and without compromise."

😍Such a privilege to guest curate this new exhibition for Carmarthenshire Museum, focusing on #Barnsley-born Harold Jones, his family life in #Carmarthen & career as artist-turned-archaeologist in #Egypt. And special thanks to The Egypt Exploration Society for their help! cofgar.wales/whats-on/explo…

The #Archive30 theme today is #SomethingSmall This small yard book lists all the miners at Barnsley Main in the 1920s which is on display at Experience Barnsley Museum

Apparently today is #SuperheroDay Lee donated his Raphael figure to the museum. Our collections range from the prehistoric period right up to the present day. 🕒 We are open Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm and Saturdays 10am-3:30pm

#OnThisDay in 1785 Joseph Bramah invented the beer pump handle, cheers! 🍻 In the museum we have a couple of objects by Barnsley's most prolific inventor; a fire pump and one of his unpickable locks.

Today is #WorldBicycleDay which fits in perfectly with the #MovementMW theme of #MuseumWeek This bicycle belonged to the well known Barnsley butcher Albert Hirst who invented the Barnsley Chop which he served to HRH the Prince of Wales when he opened Barnsley Town Hall in 1933

#WorldRefugeeDay Did you know that S.R Gent's was formed in 1945 by two sisters, Edith and Ruth who were refugees from Germany? Did you work at the factory?