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Glyn Morgan
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Head of Collections and Principal Curator at The Science Museum, London | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine | https://linktr.ee/glynmorgan
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Sizzling with Nubya Garcia this evening at HERE at outernet 🎶🎵🎶🎶🎷
Nubya Garcia, holding her saxophone, framed by a red sun effect. Double bass, drums and keys.
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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... Seriously! 🥵🥶
Weather app showing Dubai: 29° and Walthamstow: -1°
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Crazy few days visiting the Dubai Futures Forum, talking museums and science fiction with familiar faces and new friends. Just about to fly home and feel the temperature drop by 30°!
View of the Dubai skyline from my hotel window: sky scrapers wreathed in a thick early morning mist which completely obscures the ground Selfie in front of the Dubai Museum of the Future at night, a unique torus shape covered in windows shaped like Arabic calligraphy and lined with light. View from stairs down into one of the Museum of the Future galleries as they are setting up for a panel. A white space with curved walls, a flying taxi hands from the ceiling and delegates mill about moving to their seats. On stage discussing the types of futures that science fiction (and other imaginaries) can create, and the uses of such narratives in shaping thinking: Charing a panel of (L-R) Samit Basu, Ramona Emerson, and Suyi Davies Okungbowa.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Obligatory airport photo
Science Museum Head of Collections and Principal Curator standing in front of The Curator - bar & dining - in Heathrow Terminal 3
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Every time I come home to North Wales the train I book back to London is cancelled. The only thing that is reliable is the unreliability! So much for my booked seat tomorrow 😞
"Cancelled. This service has been cancelled because of more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time"
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Feed synergy!
Screenshot showing Nicholas Whyte's post "My top book of 1851: Moby Dick" and directly below it, posted at the same time, a Moby Dick account posted "To choose a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Lovely day trip to Bath today, soaking up the autumnal vibes, browsing book shops, and visiting some lovely pubs and cafes, hunting ghost signs 🍂🍃🍁🍂
Looking out over the River Avon, autumnal colours in trees on the far bank An installation of peace doves, taken from below, suspended from the ceiling in Bath Abbey One of the bars in The Raven pub, crowned with dried hops A faded sign for an old business painted on the bath stone wall
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Had a beautiful day at @sipwiltshire.bsky.social today visiting the brilliant teams who look after our collections in storage, you would not know that it is October tomorrow - it was almost t-shirt weather!
The Welcome building of the Science and Industry Park near Wroughton outside Swindon, the home to the Science Museum Group archives and stores. A curved metal and glass building above a landscaped bank of wildflowers under a bright blue sky dotted with clouds as the sun begins to set.
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Eftekasat Video
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Brilliant to see the latest incarnation of Cairo jazz band Eftekasat in Walthamstow last night, playing outdoors on a beautiful evening in Lloyd Park.
Low light evening shot of a band on stage outdoors in a gazebo structure, an audience sits appreciating them A temporary outdoor wooden gazebo stage with a band on it, an audience curving in front of them, the William Morris Gallery leans in from the left due to the fisheye lens Setting sun paints the sky in purples and pinks, trees in silhouette in foreground
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Glamour shot for Caturday
Ginger tabby lying in this back, ears pressed into concrete floor looking at the camera
August 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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RIP Jim Lovell, photographed here in front of Apollo 10 on his visit to the Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk in 2013.

You can read more about that visit here: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/apollo-13s-j...
Jim Lovell standing in front of the Apollo 10 Command Module at the Science Museum in London.
August 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Went for a lovely meal with the family in Brecon and then somehow got myself roped into being on a pedalo on the Usk! Beautiful but was not at all dressed appropriately 😅
Selfie on a pedalo on the River Usk, wooded on either side as the river stretches behind me View of the riverbank, reeds and trees rise up from the water Looking ahead on the river Looking back down the Usk towards the weir at Brecon
August 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Love this in Brecon Cathedral! 🐶
Sign reads "Dogs are very welcome inside the Cathedral. Dogs are angels without wings. God sent them so no-one suspects." Below this is an overexposed photo of some very happy looking dogs
August 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Before heading to the house I of course stopped in at Y Gaer, Brecon's museum, gallery and library. It's great: a lovely range of objects from throughout local history and some beautiful artworks.
Y Gaer Museum Art Gallery & Library, a neoclassical front. Above the pillars it says "Victoria Regina MDCCCXLII" A collection of early-Christian standing stones brought into the museum. Oil painting by Augustus John "Welsh Mountains" c.1911 One of the displays in the museum: a carriage, a penny farthing bike, a railway signal, an artwork of some sheep, a display case of rail paraphernalia
August 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I'm in mid-Wales, near Brecon, for a family gathering to celebrate my mum's big birthday. I sourced and booked the house, I think I did pretty well! 😍
A big converted barn near Brecon A double bed with book cases A big living room with beams crossing the ceiling Another big bed room with wooden floors and furniture, beams over the ceiling
August 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Got there in time for the twice daily running of the engine. One of the two Marshall steam engines from 1896, albeit now running on compressed air.
July 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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It's Sunday, which means the Walthamstow Pumphouse museum is open, so I decided to pop in.
A shipping container painted with a depiction of a train passing over a viaduct, the fields below say "Walthamstow", the open doors say "Come In" A retired tube carriage from the Victoria Line A view of the pumphouse interior The non-electric workshop. The sign says "all tools in this workshop are other hand operated, foot operated, or belt driven from the overhead line-shaft as would have been the case in Victorian times."
July 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I assume I'm late to the party, but just in case: have you seen Scavengers Reign?! HBO Max series, on Netflix in the UK. Gorgeous Moebius art style with the bio-weird of Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, @aptshadow.bsky.social, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, @kameronhurley.com Stars are Legion, etc.
Levi the robot in a forest of strange growths One of the characters watched the pollination sequence of a strange flower, glowing balls rise towards her face from and orange and yellow plant with short tendrils surrounding it Title card for MAX Original Scavengers Reign, a character is shown engulfed by strange plant or fungal life as she reaches for hell One of the characters kneels, next to a bike whose wheels are made of two big yellow spheres. Levi, a robot with a similar sphere-based design, is trimming her hair. They stand in front of a tree stump from which a single flower sprouts, huge roots tower around them, spores float through the air.
July 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Yesterday I took myself off to see @britishlibrary.bsky.social's exhibition "Unearthed: The Power of Gardening", a lovely cross-section of our changing relationships with gardens and, by extension, nature. On until 10th August, Tickets £15.
A display about potatoes. A number of exhibits used illustrations from/inspired by the objects to bring a bit more colour to their cases which was a nice touch. Signs from the British Library's story garden which was adapted from a disused parking lot. It is soon going to be developed to expand the BL, a new garden is apparently opening somewhere else. The signs say "water wisely" "if you did not plant it please do not pick it" "herb garden" and "the fruits and vegetables here are grown by local residents for their homes please do not pick the food." Edward Budding patented the first mechanical lawnmower, this is one of them from 1832. We have one in the Science Museum Collection but this one is on loan from Ransomes Jacobsen Ltd. Behind it is a colourful poster entitled "Fuck Lawns" which decries the typical garden lawn as an unsustainable monoculture. The art is by Sam Wallman. Weirdly the label didn't carry a date but I think it's from 2022. Charles Darwin's vasculum, on loan from the Linean Society. The label reads: "Plant hunting fuelled the development of botany and natural history in Europe. Charles Darwin was one of many scientists whose work was influenced by knowledge gained from plant hunting. This vasculum, a container for storing plant cuttings, belonged to Darwin and was used by him on expeditions to South America. He went on to use the data compiled from this voyage to help formulate his theory of evolution by natural selection."
July 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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That was more chaotic than I expected! But great to have my first experience of live TV 🦗📺
July 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Wasn't I just here?!
July 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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On air sometime in the next half hour!
Standing in front of BBC Television Centre, the famous curved entrance rises above me. BBC logo above the door
July 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Well that was very fun! Still plenty of performances left around the East, go catch it if you can: www.elsf.uk/whatson
June 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Got my cushion and picnic mat as Lloyd Park island is transformed into the Forest of Arden for a East London Shakespeare Festival performance of As You Like It. A nice evening breeze is just starting to pick up, thank goodness!
Rosalind on a perfume advert ("Greenwood Tree") is the main artwork along with a couple of faux brick pillars which frame the stage area. The trees of the park loom in the background, the sky is clear pale blue.
June 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM