#Oxford people, been to Museum of Oxford recently/ever??? give it a review on TripAdvisor - tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Rev… because it is WAY better than the 58th best thing to do in Oxford - get on it please

Stephanie Tierney Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine shares the main findings on how cultural orgs support #socialprescribing: 🏛️ Therapeutic landscapes - nice places 💭 A sense of flow - distraction 🤝 Gaining social capital - trust  #MarmaladeFestival @marmalade_io #FridayMood

Today is International Day for Monuments and Sites (also known as World Heritage Day) created by UNESCO. We are proud that 51 of our sites are inscribed with with World Heritage Status. This year Google Arts & Culture are showcasing some of them: artsandculture.google.com/story/dwWxBDk6…

F R E E - O N L I N E - E V E N T 🗒️ Network & Nourish: Practical experience of AI 🗓️ Thursday 9 May ⏰ 1.00pm BST 📍 Zoom (see details in article below) Do you have questions about using AI in your every day work? open.substack.com/.../network-an…...

NEW ARTICLE: 'AI for the cash strapped and time poor - how can heritage educators harness AI tools to save time today so they can create the exciting new learning experiences of tomorrow?' 👀👇open.substack.com/pub/digitallea… #AIinCulture #MuseumTech #EthicalAI AI4Culture

Very positive to see investment in this area, exploring innovative multisensory approaches to museum provision. Particularly excited that one pilot org is Paralympic Heritage, whose commitment to access and inclusion is unswerving. 👏

Same as board chalk and basically yet another type of quartz.... 😁 🎶Feel the power of the gems, start to cleanse. #gems #nikkifresh #earth 🌙

Museums are often emotionally ready to change, but operationally they are not. Dina Jezdic Dina Jezdic highlights the paradoxes in museums that make decoloniality work even harder but even more important. @museumnext #museumnext.

Many historic homes introduce upstairs/downstairs interpretation which can stereotype the have & have nots. The interventions at Ballantine House The Newark Museum of Art instead celebrate SUCCESS STORIES of local black women living down the street to evoke a real moment in time. 👏 ❤️

This week I remembered just how beautiful Wellcome Collection’s Reading Room is. So, HEI folk, I want your recommendations please. Best places to perch & work in #London with: 🛜 eduroamUK ⛔️ card-free access 🖼️ inspiring interiors ☕️ coffee nearby 🔌 sockets 🛋️ comfy chairs

Rain at #Wimbledon means it’s time to watch #EURO2024  | #ESPGER 🎾⚽️

Reading material for the train journey HOME. 📚 🏠 Great day musing on the Future of Museums and getting under the skin of the fantastic new vision at Museum of the Home hosted by Wright & Wright Architects.

Hello Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov - reports on English Indices of Multiple Deprivation were published in 2010, 2015, and 2019. A new one is due. Please update on plans to release the latest data. Thanks.

'Picture This' is a free workshop for people aged 16-24 using photography and slow looking to explore identity and connections. Reserve your place at Ashmolean Museum on Sat 19th October, 14:00-16:30⬇️ go.glam.ox.ac.uk/PictureThis #ESRCFestival #OriginMentalHealth

Two of the extraordinary women awarded degrees in October 1920 were anthropologists Barbara Freire-Marreco & Beatrice Blackwood, who left indelible marks on the history of Pitt Rivers Museum Museum: 📷 go.glam.ox.ac.uk/beatriceblackw… 📷 go.glam.ox.ac.uk/FreireMarreco

Fantastic opportunity to run the secondary and YP learning programmes at Pitt Rivers Museum #museumjobs #museumlearning #kidsinmuseums Museum Development South East the Digital Learning Network

Ever wonder what those funky stone faces around Oxford are up to when nobody's looking? The new TORCH Oxford XR experience is coming soon - book now for this family-friendly, monster-themed interactive experience featuring the latest motion capture technologies 👾

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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Great job by all the participants in Cutteslowe Light Trail last night, the free, festive miniature train rides an especially delight for kids big and small. #Oxford #OxLightFest