This is a Celtic Halloween mask⤵️This mask, dating from the first half of the 20th century, is made from a piece of cloth from a flour sack. Used to celebrate Halloween in Ireland, where the holiday has its roots in the Celtic season festival of Samhain. Follow Horniman Museum and Gardens

Kale stalks were used to predict future romances, as described by Robert Burns in his poem #Halloween published in 1785. The length and shape of the stalk were said to represent your future partner’s height and figure, whilst the amount around the roots represented wealth.

In Scotland and Northern England, #Halloween was known as Nut-Crack Night. Couples threw hazelnuts or chestnuts into a fire to predict their romantic future ❤️ If the nut burned quietly they would be happily united. If it hissed and crackled an unsettled future was in store 💔

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This c1750s dress is absolutely stunning. It’s embroidered with silver thread, giving it a gorgeous glitter-y effect - it also makes it quite heavy to wear! You can see this beauty at our Christmas exhibition, opening on the 19th Nov🎄

What a lovely review and feature by Museum Crush on our exhibition 📷#ResurrectingAncientEgypt designed and curated by Prof #joannfletcher Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher and on loan from the very generous Barnsley Museums 👍

This 3,500 year old dish is just one of almost 300 objects on loan from Libs and Museums featured in our #Tut22 exhibition Amazingly two halves of the dish were discovered and brought together a few years ago. Read more in this Museum Crush article museumcrush.org/two-halves-of-…

Does anyone recognise any of these lost interiors in Edinburgh ⤵? Ron O’Donnell was drawn to photograph old-fashioned, cluttered, and run-down interiors from the 1970s onwards 📸 Read more here ➡ bit.ly/3ExIr4K

During my PhD I’ve been lucky enough to take up two work placements in the GLAM sector. My second was a placement with BT Archives where I catalogued the Electrophone collections, if you’d like to hear more take a look at my Museum Crush article below 👇 museumcrush.org/the-electropho…

This week's Museum Crush Digest sees the launch of our Patreon Page patreon.com/museumcrush - we're fundraising to keep going right now! Plus there's Art Deco dolls house furniture, naughty Fuseli, Folklore costume and museum dioramas mailchi.mp/culture24/muse…

Bring in the Christmas spirit with some freshly baked gingerbread #GingerBreadHouseDay ❄ This doll's house was made by Edgar Yarwood, a former Tank Officer in WW1. Chronic pain resulted in him seeking solace in the miniature world of model making. Share your creations below ⬇

Forget that today is supposedly #BlueMonday we're taking part in Samaritans #BrewMonday and have planned a day of tweets & wellbeing activities to brighten your day. Morning #MuseumTwitter ☕️ do you have a #MuseumMug or teapot you'd like to show off?

Check out this letter in poesy written by Robert Burns was re-discovered in the collection of Paisley Museum in 2016 and now appears every January for Burns night #BurnsNight ➡️ bit.ly/2Jgxqqd 📷 Sir, Yours this moment I unseal. © Paisley Museum

We have a unique and exciting opportunity to acquire Nightingale’s Wheelchair. This important object will allow us to visibly portray Nightingale's battle with her health and her achievements. Find out more & donate - UK(+): gofund.me/9c2bc0d8 US: gofund.me/263e2c14

Maidstone Museum have an exhibition on the Kentish Hooden Horse and other animal guising traditions. Check it out! Featuring lots of great art and artefacts from Ben Edge and The Folklore Library & Archive runs until June!

This #InternationalWomensDay, we'd like to recognise the female authors, scribes, artists, patrons, mothers, widows, daughters, sisters, whose manuscripts & documents have survived to this day. We've been digitising over 300 of these books 👇 blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus… Here goes:

At last! A new Museum Crush email digest heads out later this week with loads of tempting museum objects and stories - like this Tibetan human thigh bone flute from the irresistibly veiled museum of Royal Northern College of Music Subscribe museumcrush.org/email-digest/

A new Museum Crush Digest has landed with a peek inside the Royal Northern College of Music museum, social history archive discoveries in textiles and railways, Brian May's Stereoscopic collection and Margaret Agnes Rope's stained glass mailchi.mp/culture24/muse…