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Adam Koszary

@adamkoszary.bsky.social

1.9K followers 720 following 510 posts

Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc. https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 11h

omg i've made it on tiktok, people are arguing minor historical points in the comments <3

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 12h

The 'Always money for war, not for the poor' in museums is 'always money for the capital development, not the payroll'

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 13h

I do the same thing with pronoucning 'h' as 'aitch' because it's the one thing my dad insisted on, but I really actually just want to say 'haitch'

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 13h

i feel like everyone who pronounces 'issue' as 'iss-yew' rather than 'ish-oo' makes a really conscious effort to do that, like they have to catch themselves just before they say it the second way

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 1d

What's mad is they recreated the whole thing from source photos - nothing is original!

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 1d

*banging on table* every museum should have a pub

A 1930s pub with a brick first floor and elaborately tiled ground floor.

A close up of the pub exterior, with 'vaults' in stained glass.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 1d

my god, the off-colour mildewy grouting

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 1d

Growing up is realising your parents' unchanged olive bathroom suite is actually peak aesthetic

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 3d

Also reinforces that content creators are on easy mode as they don't have to stick to one theme or site

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 3d

The best formula so far is to choose an interesting place, shoot a lot of video so you can cut c. every 5 secs, focus in on the most interesting fact as the hook and expand from there for about a minute. And don't be afraid to use a bit of personality - the little asides are what gets comments.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 3d

I've been putting into practice some of my hunches about what works on historytok (since I have to post so much about it on my newsletter) on a secret TikTok profile.

So far about 6 duds, one 32.5k views/487 likes, one 25.1k/2790, one 15.3k/2990.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 6d

this piece of shit i pay no money for to make things integral to my job

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 6d

is canva constantly a slow piece of shit for anyone else or is it just me

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 6d

*shaking my 2 year old by the shoulders* I LOVE BOARDS OF CANADA. TELL ME I'M INTERESTING

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 8d

Justin O'Connor's talk at #museums2025 was preaching to the choir - exponential growth is impossible, culture has a different value and our lack of GDP value leaves us politically powerless.

But it's the world we're in. Almost every govt will only listen to economic arguments.

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 8d

I'm on my way to Cardiff for #Museums2025. Please say hello. Please clap at my talk.

An eighteenth century railway hall in the dawn light.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 9d

cannot believe the amount of tiktok creators who just film themselves walk into churches and get thousands of likes

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 9d

I'm doing a talk tomorrow on how content could be a lot more spontaneous, if only we lost our chains (and we know what the fuck we're talking about)

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 9d

I can't stress enough how random taste is on social media. People will watch and like the weirdest shit, so long as it's clear and semi obvious what you're looking at. Just film everything, talk about everything. Stick it up. See what happens.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 10d

Why does every US politician sound like a LinkedIn post

Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10d

Trump is federalizing the National Guard in Illinois against our will—

An affront to American values and an extreme abuse of our military.

He’s terrorizing citizens in attempt to expand his power and punish opponents.

That’s just not who we are.

It’s authoritarian.

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 12d

Wimborne!

Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 12d

A lot of love for the recurring model village bit

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 14d

finally finished my MA conference talk The Art of Museum Shitposting, which includes a DJ horn sound effect, comic sans and questionable advice

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 14d

i knew we had collectively lost our shit when we started calling presentations 'decks'

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 14d

was looking back at old tweets for a thing and I forgot I liked this one

A tweet where someone asks The Museum of English Rural Life how old rural England fought the cold, with the museum replying: die.

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