Head of Collections and Principal Curator at @ScienceMuseum | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine
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📌 I should probably go cold turkey but instead I am slowly winding down my engagement with this site. So, if you want to connect I suggest Bluesky is the best social to reach me on, other links are in my bio's linktree: bsky.app/profile/grmorgan.bs…
Popping back in to share some big news
News | Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) appoints new head of collections and principal curator
museumsandheritage.com/advis…
Glyn Morgan retweeted
Merry Christmas from all of us at the Science Museum! 🎄
📷 Image: Pineapple in a pot, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1733.
🎁 Did you know on Christmas Day 1733, King Louis XV received a royal treat: the first pineapple grown in the gardens of Versailles! 🍍
© Château de Versailles, Dist. RMN © Christophe Fouin
Glyn Morgan retweeted
Meet King Louis XV’s rhino - the OG chonky boi! 🦏 👑
#OnThisDay in 1769, he was sent from India to France as a gift for the French king. And until April 2025 you can see him in London at the Science Museum’s #Versailles
exhibition which I helped to curate!
🧵…
Glyn Morgan retweeted
To @sciencemuseum, there to visit the show on Versailles: Science & Splendour
H/t @issy_muir
Glyn Morgan retweeted
Reviews are in for Versailles: Science and Splendour! ✨🔬✨
Check out what critics are saying about our majestic new exhibition - now on until 21 April 2025: bit.ly/3ZwI2c4
📸 Clock of the Creation of the World, designed by Claude-Siméon Passemant © Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Thierry Ollivier.
📸 Optical microscope, by Claude-Siméon Passemant, with bronzework attributed to Jacques and Philippe Caffieri © Château de Versailles, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Christophe Foui.
📸 Eclipsarium, designed by Ole Rømer and made by Isaac Thuret © Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Glyn Morgan retweeted
Don’t miss the "Versailles: Science and Splendour" exhibition at the @sciencemuseum in London, where history meets innovation!
Developed with @CVersailles, this highlight is a must-see for history lovers and watch enthusiasts alike.
#Versailles #MarieAntoinette #Sciencemuseum
I spoke to #TheStandardPodcast about Cassini's Moon Map 🌝 Louis XV's Rhinoceros 🦏 and of course Marie Antoinette's Watch ⌚
#TheStandardPocast
How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares?
- With @theLDNstandard transport editor @RossLydall
Plus! Marie Antoinette’s £24 million ‘smartwatch’ & first moon map
- With @ScienceMuseum’s curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr @GR_Morgan on Versailles: Science & Splendour
Production by @_MarkBlunden & @rachellefabbott
🎧pod.fo/e/290af4
Glyn Morgan retweeted
#TheStandardPocast
How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares?
- With @theLDNstandard transport editor @RossLydall
Plus! Marie Antoinette’s £24 million ‘smartwatch’ & first moon map
- With @ScienceMuseum’s curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr @GR_Morgan on Versailles: Science & Splendour
Production by @_MarkBlunden & @rachellefabbott
🎧pod.fo/e/290af4
Glyn Morgan retweeted
What was our favourite thing in the fascinating new exhibition about science at Versailles which opened at the @sciencemuseum last night? Has to be the Indian rhinoceros that lived in the palace menagerie until dying in mysterious circumstances in the Revolution. sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and…
Glyn Morgan retweeted
#TheStandardPocast
How much are 2025 #Tube ticket rises & London bus fares?
- With @theLDNstandard transport editor @RossLydall
Plus! Marie Antoinette’s £24 million ‘smartwatch’ & first moon map
- With @ScienceMuseum’s curatorial lead of exhibitions Dr @GR_Morgan on Versailles: Science & Splendour
Production by @_MarkBlunden & @rachellefabbott
🎧pod.fo/e/290af4
Topping off a very successful launch for 'Versailles: Science and Splendour' last night with a conference welcoming remarkable speakers to the
@sciencemuseum today.
Glyn Morgan retweeted
Versailles: Science and Splendour opens today! ✨
Explore the opulence of Versailles and see the Palace in a new light - from marvellous objects to inspiring human stories, discover how science played a vital role in projecting power for the French monarchy.
Book your tickets now: bit.ly/3OP5BrX
Today I got my author copy of 'Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums', ed. by Kristin Alford. By sheer fluke that means I've had four books published this year to which I've contributed essays or chapters, which makes me seem far more productive than I feel.
Found myself on @BBCr4today this morning talking about this chonky boy. Rhino mania is alive and strong!
I spoke to Vanessa Thorpe at The Observer about Louis XV's stuffed rhinoceros which is on display in all his chonky brilliance in 'Versailles: Science and Splendour' in the @sciencemuseum - opens Dec 12th:
theguardian.com/science/2024…
I spoke to Vanessa Thorpe at The Observer about Louis XV's stuffed rhinoceros which is on display in all his chonky brilliance in 'Versailles: Science and Splendour' in the @sciencemuseum - opens Dec 12th:
theguardian.com/science/2024…
Spent the last few weeks on gallery installing this. You are going to love it!
⏳ Only two weeks until Versailles: Science and Splendour opens and you can step into the world of the French royal court.
🦏 See Louis XV’s legendary rhinoceros
⏱️ Admire the watch designed for Marie Antoinette
✨Discover incredible objects and human stories where science met splendour in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Book now: bit.ly/4cLj4eq
📸: Optical microscope, by Claude-Siméon Passemant, with bronzework attributed to Jacques and Philippe Caffieri © Château de Versailles, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Christophe Foui
📸: Clock of the Creation of the World, designed by Claude-Siméon Passemant © Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Thierry Ollivier
📸: Eclipsarium, designed by Ole Rømer and made by Isaac Thuret © Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris