Over the week from 24–30 March, museums throughout the world celebrated Museums Week, posting content on social networking sites relating to their collections, architecture and behind the scenes work and encouraging members of the public, conservators and curators to interact and discuss their museum memories and highlights.
IHBC members may be interested to explore the discussions on Twitter, through the hashtags #MuseumWeek and #BehindTheArt.
Unusual facts and quotes from the week include:
- 90 tonnes of lime plaster was needed to undertake work to the Globe
- Sedgewick museum has two stone bison guarding its entrance
- South Kensington Museum was the first in the world to provide a public restaurant
- Art nouveau tiles are one of the many original features of interest at Pontefract Museum
- One section of the original 1610 staircase at Hertford Museum remains intact
- The Bowes Museum is possibly the first building to be designed and built using metric measurements
A selection of posts from the week, including highlights of hidden architectural details, repair work in progress and archival images has been collated in a Flipboard collection
