Sheffield Museums

Our latest exhibition, acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood is open now at the Millennium Gallery 🙌 This touring exhibition by the Hayward Gallery and curated by Hettie Judah approaches motherhood as a creative enterprise, one at times tempered by ambivalence, exhaustion or grief. Addressing diverse experiences of motherhood, the displays span themes of creation, caregiving and loss. The heart of the exhibition is a series of revelatory self-portraits – a celebration of the artist as mother. Entry to the exhibition is free – if you’re able, please donate and help keep your museums free and open for everyone to enjoy. Guidance for visitors: Artworks in this exhibition address important issues surrounding women’s health and wellbeing, including nudity, childbirth, (in)fertility, miscarriage, abortion, loss, domestic abuse, adoption, sterilisation and obstetric violence. 🔗 Visit our website to find out more: https://lnkd.in/dtkFX_CU

⭐ New exhibition opening this Thursday! ⭐   Coming to the Millennium Gallery from Hayward Gallery Touring and curated by writer and critic Hettie Judah, Acts of Creation shines a spotlight on a subject seldom seen in art history – the experience of motherhood as represented through the work of artist mothers. Find out more on our website: https://lnkd.in/dtkFX_CU   We’re just in process of installing the over 100 artworks, which span the feminist avant-garde to the present day – here’s our Exhibition Curator, Katie putting the finishing touches to the installation of Billie Zangewa’s hand stitched silk collage, Temporary Reprieve, (2017). See this and more when the exhibition opens on Thursday 24 October.    Entry to the exhibition is free – if you’re able, please donate and help keep your museums free and open for everyone to enjoy.   Guidance for visitors: Artworks in this exhibition address important issues surrounding women’s health and wellbeing, including nudity, childbirth, (in)fertility, miscarriage, abortion, loss, domestic abuse, adoption, sterilisation and obstetric violence   #sheffieldmuseums #creativesheffield #visitsheffield #whatsonsheffield #sheffieldexploringlocal #oursheffield #wearesheff #southyorkshire #letscreate #acefunded #thankstoyou #sheffieldcitycentre #millenniumgallery

We're currently recruiting for a dynamic Director of Finance and Resources to join our team, led by Chief Executive Kim Streets. Find at more at the link below 👇

Friends, we need your help! Benefact Group, a diverse family of specialist financial services with a charitable focus, is giving 10 Arts and Culture charities across the UK a chance to receive £5,000. We’ve entered the draw and all we need is your nomination for a chance to be awarded the funds to support our museums, galleries and programmes. It will only take 1 minute to enter your nomination (link below 👇) with the following information:    Charity name: SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST Charity number: 1194032 Charity type: Heritage and Arts  Who are you: Click ‘Other’  We have until midnight on 11 October to get as many nominations as we can so please nominate us now and also share with your friends, families, and networks. ✨ 🔗 Nominate Sheffield Museums here: https://lnkd.in/eb4bSVwX

📢 New opportunity - We're seeking a retail specialist with significant experience in a visitor attraction context, for the Embrace Abbeydale project. The Embrace Abbeydale project, funded by a major grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, alongside further support from Sheffield City Council and the J G Graves Charitable Trust, begins an exciting new chapter in Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet's remarkable story. We're looking to engage a retail specialist with significant experience in a visitor attraction context to advise us on the retail element of, and inform our thinking on the creation of, a new Welcome Hub at Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, which will be ready to open on 1 April 2025. 🔗 Find out more, including how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/emfYf95b

We’re pleased to announce dates for the eagerly awaited Pete McKee exhibition at Weston Park Museum - The Boy with a Leg Named Brian: Memoirs by Pete McKee will open on Fri 29 Nov and run until 2 Nov 2025. In this landmark exhibition, one of Sheffield’s best-loved artists, Pete McKee, takes us on a nostalgia-filled journey through his 1970s childhood in this interactive exhibition. It’ll be playful, evocative, funny and moving, as Pete’s key moments and treasured memories are captured in new paintings, prints and sculpture, as well as some familiar favourites. Plus, there’ll be displays celebrating the clothes, games, music and popular culture of the period to transport you through the decades. 🚀 Tickets for the exhibition are free and will be available to book from November – look out for info on release dates nearer the time. This exhibition is generously supported by law firm, CMS UK. This exhibition, and everything @sheffmuseums does, is made possible thanks to kind donations from our visitors and ongoing support from Arts Council England and Sheffield City Council 🔗 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eBKiW_g5

We're marking #WorldSuicidePreventionDay with Mike McCarthy from Sheffield who lost his son, Ross, to suicide. He co-founded a movement called Baton of Hope UK, to honour Ross, with the aim of preventing suicide. Mike explains how suicide can affect every one of us. And by raising awareness, reducing the stigma & encouraging action we can help to reduce the instances of suicide around the world. The Baton of Hope returns to display on Friday, alongside the Yorkshire Speak Their Name memorial quilt, in The Ruskin Collection: Hand, Head and Heart at The Millennium Gallery. They're two objects that remind us that every chat, no matter how small, builds a more supportive and understanding society. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e2iGkY9M

👀 Take a look inside our latest exhibition - Tess Jaray: Paintings and Drawings Across 60 Years, which is open now the Millennium Gallery. This exhibition presents paintings and drawings from the past 60 years, accompanied by a selection of her inspirations and influences which give a remarkable insight into her creative process. 🔗 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/dUHvy_ti

Welcome to Show Your Metal, our dazzling summer exhibition at the Millennium Gallery, with Emma Paragreen, Curator of Industry and Metalwork at Sheffield Museums ✨ This exhibition is generously supported by Gold exhibition sponsor, Forged Solutions Group, as well as Silver Sponsors, Sheffield Assay Office and The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire and Bronze Sponsors, ICD Europe Ltd, Rotabroach, Outokumpu , Sheffield Forgemasters, and AMRC. This exhibition, and all of our work, is made possible thanks to ongoing support from Arts Council England and Sheffield City Council and donations from our wonderful visitors 👏 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/d6mjrQmU

🥁 Wonderful opportunity 🥁 We’re looking to recruit Cultural Advisors to work with us to develop the themes and displays in the forthcoming, major, new exhibition about colour, opening at the Millennium Gallery in 2025! ✨ Spanning art, science, archaeology, social history and more, the exhibition will look at people’s use and understanding of colour and the role it plays in the natural world. An important part of the exhibition will be celebrating how colour is entwined in the rich cultural heritage of local communities. To help shape these stories in the exhibition, we're looking for Cultural Advisors who will join a panel to develop the themes and displays together with us 👊 The role doesn’t require any specialist qualifications or museum experience – you just need to be willing to share your knowledge of the role of colour in your community and be happy to contribute to relaxed, friendly discussions with your fellow Advisors and panel ✔ 🔗Find out more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/eYXzxE3f #artjobs #museumjobs #sheffieldjobs