News

Filter: / / /

Hull

Freelance Lead Creative Artist Opportunity

Building on previous work and our commitment to include and represent diverse communities, Hull Museums and the Ferens Art Gallery …

Hull

Meet Dan Vo – Guest Blog 1

It is a delight to be invited to be a guest blogger for this series exploring the way in which …

Hull

Pride In Our City – How To Get Involved

Here at Hull Museums we are dedicated to representing the diversity of our audiences and exploring our local heritage. We …

Hull

Pride In Our City – The Project

Our digital exhibition, Pride In Our City, launched on 25 July 2020. Visit the exhibition – click here! In order …

Hull

LGBTQ+ Diary Blog 4 – Pride In Our City

As part of improving our representation of LGBTQ+ narratives at Hull Museums, we wanted to ensure we were able to …

Hull

Modern and Contemporary Gallery Curated by Future Ferens

In November and December 2019, five members of the Future Ferens worked with Ferens to curate a new display of …

Hull

Conservation of The Night School, Edgar Bundy, 1892

In June 2019 Ferens Art Gallery received a Woodmansterne Art Conservation Award to conserve the late Victorian painting The Night …

Hull

The Islamic Art Project: doing something that works for the community

In my last post I said that I’d shown the range of our Islamic Art collection and consulted with the …

Hull

LGBTQ+ Diary Blog 3 – Researching our Collections

This week we had our first LGBTQ+ Awareness training with Yorkshire MESMAC – and it went great! Hull Museums staff …

Hull

The Islamic Art Project: Developing a Project

Taking everything I’d learnt over the past year (2018-19 – see my previous post! http://humbermuseums.com/islamic-art-project-beginning-diary/ the time was right to …

HullHull

LGBTQ+ Diary Blog 2 – Internal Staff Training

Before the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a lockdown meaning that we all had to work from home, we were planning …

Ferens Art Gallery2020 OpenHull

Natasha Monfared – Artist Interview

Natasha Monfared is a Hull-based artist who draws inspiration from her Iranian heritage, using her work to address issues facing …

Hull

2020 Open – BBC Radio Humberside Interviews

To celebrate the launch of our digital 2020 Open exhibition we have been taking a look (and listen) back to …

Hull

Douglas Gray – Artist Interview

Douglas Gray is a painter who specialises in figurative works and bustling city scenes. Gray brings life to his paintings …

Hull

Yusi Ding – Artist Interview

Yusi Ding is a painter whose work explores emotion and emptiness. Ding’s works Onement and Monument/Elegy #1 were both exhibited …

Hull

Karim Skalli – Artist Interview

Karim Skalli is a photographer whose work challenges perceptions of everyday spaces and the banal. Skalli explores his own identity …

Hull

Paige Graham-Buckle – Artist Interview

My name is Paige Graham-Buckle. I am an artist both from the North and currently working in the North of …

Hull

LGBTQ+ Diary Blog 1 – A New Chapter for LGBTQ+ Histories at Hull Museums

The Hull Museums and Ferens Art Gallery collections hold many amazing objects, some of which tell the wonderful stories of …

Hull

The Islamic Art Project – the beginning of a diary

In October 2019 the Islamic Art Project started. It didn’t start with a big fanfare (projects rarely do!), instead it …

Hull

Capturing Lockdown Diary 2

My name is Simon Braithwaite and I’m the Assistant Curator Registrar for Hull Museums. Along with my colleague Caroline Rhodes, …

Hull

Capturing Lockdown Diary 1

My name is Simon Braithwaite and I’m the Assistant Curator Registrar for Hull Museums. My job normally involves overseeing and …

Hull

Hull Fair project diary blog no. 2

Hello! I’m Jocelyn, a Research and Documentation Assistant at Hull Museums and the project lead on the Hull Fair project. …

Hull

Hull Fair project diary blog no. 1

Hull Fair project diary blog no. 1 Hello! I’m Jocelyn, a Research and Documentation Assistant at Hull Museums and the …

Hull

Potty about archaeology

Discover pottery through the ages at Hull and East Riding Museum. Explore all things ceramic with live historic pottery demonstrations …

Hull

‘Any Old Rag Bone’ Exhibition

To this day, horse and carts collecting scrap metal are a regular sight on the streets of Hull. The …

East Riding

Inclesmoor Map Embroidery Project

Do you enjoy sewing or embroidery? Do you like getting together with like-minded people? Goole Museum needs you to come …

East Riding

The Driffield Show 2018

The East Riding Museums stand at Driffield Show had leaflets, both promoting the service in general and specifically advertising particular …

East Riding

53rd Wildlife Photographer of the Year

ABOUT WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR The 53rd Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition features 100 incredible and diverse images …

Humber

Family Activities Summer 2018

This summer, we have a variety of activities and events to keep kids of all ages entertained during the holidays. …

Hull

Sandra Kerr Talk

Sandra Kerr, musician, singer, writer, and the creator of the evocative music from Bagpuss will give an illustrated talk about …

The new exhibition at @Northlincmuseum On the Map is now live online. We hope you enjoy browsing our amazing collec… t.co/h3U7KFn0eD