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Dr Rachel Souhami
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Museums consultant. Works at the intersection of design, narrative, partnerships and process. Develops and facilitates new approaches to museum practice. Producer of @museumsshowoff.bsky.social

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Oh wow! I’ve never seen one of those. I guess it’s a kind of tool, even though it’s called a machine? There’s a similar distinction between, say, a table saw (considered to be machinery) and a hand held saw (considered a tool).
The menu from Axminster Tools’ website showing the different types of saw listed in the category “machinery”. These include table saws and band saws among others. The menu from Axminster Tools’ website showing the different kinds of saw listed in the category “hand tools”. These include tenon saws and dovetail saws among others.
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Waiting for some depressing news from the launch of PEC’s Creative Freelancer Experience report
Person standing on podium introducing the talk standing in front of a slide with its title
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Holiday visitors
An adult and a juvenile pea hen peer through a glazed door from a garden.
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Wes Streeting demonstrating his astonishing talent for zero self-awareness. From www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A screen shot of text quoting Wes Streeting saying "I don't think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago."
September 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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It was lovey to meet everyone who came along to tonight’s museum meet up. Watch this space for details of the next one.
A group of smiling people sitting round a table in a pub
August 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Osees at EartH tonight – baking hot but utterly brilliant.
The Osees on stage, bathed in a pale yellow light. On the left the singer/guitarist, in the middle two drummers and to the right the bass player.
June 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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On the wall at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. It would be good to see more museums place similar statements in their entrance halls.
Black text on a white wall that reads “Plurality of voices, tolerance, diversity and mutual respect are the basis of a democratic society. In this sense Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie see Gegenwart speaks out with its programs and in everyday interaction against racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, ableism, age discrimination, sexism and queer hostility, violence and every form of hatred and discrimination.”
May 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Nothing new in that (this is from Pitchfork). Also, please can you reserve me a seat.
A screen grab from Pitchfork's entry on New York Dolls saying "In 1973, the readers of Creem magazine voted New York Dolls the year's Best New Band. They also voted them the year's Worst New Band."
April 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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"We'll never have a paywall, but pay us or let us sell your data" Fortunately, if you press "reject all and subscribe" then reload the page, the pop up disappears and you can still read the article. Which makes the whole thing disingenuous and even more irritating.
The image is a screen grab of a pop up window on The Guardian's website. The title reads "Personalised advertising - it's your choice". Readers are invited to choose between allowing advertising cookies which would share data with 133 partners, or to pay £5 per month to use the site without advertising cookies.
March 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Some images of the work. It’s a huge wall of text and drawings by Dan Perjovschi, which was first made in early 2000s, and has been updated throughout the years since then.
A white wall of text and images drawing in black. In the bottom left corner is a small creature looking up at a human, and asking (in a speech bubble) “what makes you human?” The human replied “you”. Other text is a stylised “no genocide” and the words “fear” “panic” “angst” in all caps A white wall with text and images in black. The most prominent text is a vertical list of words: “regroup, resist” revolt, rethink, repurpose, regenerate, reclaim, refute” A general view of the same wall as the previous images but from one story up, showing the size of the work, which is approximately three stories high.
March 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Updating the labels at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
A conventional printed label for an art work stuck on a white wall saying “Dan Perjovschi Wall Drawings 2019 – “. The artist, Dan Perjovschi, has updated the label by writing over it and the wall in thick black marker pen with the words “2024 and counting. Well the first was in 2005 can you believe it? A lifetime ago… when we have been OPTIMISTIC.”
March 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Hello Winterclash!
A section of an indoor skatepark, with plywood flooring. There are some blue grind rails in the middle. A female skater is making a soul grind down the rail nearest the camera. My wrist with a blue fabric band around it. The text on the band says “20 Years”. The 0 of 20 is styled as a snowflake, which is the symbol of Winterclash. A panoramic view of the skatepark, showing a variety of rails and boxes.
February 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I made a thing – a cheval glass in cherry with ebony details. It was a delicate object to make, with some complicated geometry for the mortice and tenon joints in the legs and turning dowels from ebony (quite brittle). After a year of house-moving stress, it was nice to get in the workshop again.
A mirror sits on top of a chest of drawers with a vase of flowers to one side. The mirror has a curved top and bevelled glass and has a frame made of cherry wood, which is a red-brown colour. It sits inside two uprights, suspended by pivots on each side so that it can swing back and forth. A side view of the mirror, showing it with the top swung slightly backwards. The uprights holding it have curved feet extending in front and behind the mirror. The ends of the pivots are made in ebony. A close up of the feet of the mirror, showing where they attach to the upright. A close up of one of the pivots, showing a section of the frame holding the mirror, a section of the upright, an ebony washer in between them, and a knob on the outside that can be used to hold the mirror in a fixed position.
December 28, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Aarhus working its Viking heritage.
A red, illuminated, “don’t walk” symbol on a pedestrian crossing, depicted by an image of a bearded Viking with arms outstretched, a round shield in the right hand and an axe in the left. A green, illuminated, “walk” symbol on a pedestrian crossing, depicted by an image of a bearded Viking walking to the left, a round shield in the left hand and an axe in the right.
November 18, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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October 20, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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A brilliant set from Sleater-Kinney tonight. Wonderful to see them in the tiny venue downstairs at the Dome.
Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker on stage bathed in red light. Carrie is playing guitar, leaning back from the mic. Corin is playing guitar and singing. Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker in the centre of the stage bathed in red and blue light. They are facing each other and playing guitar. Corin is facing away from the camera. Carrie is facing towards the camera and is smiling broadly.
November 9, 2023 at 12:05 AM
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Not sure this is allowed in Berlin
A grey metal electricity cabinet on a street. It has been graffitied in black pen with a cartoon image of a unicorn and the words Techno Is Shit
September 20, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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Station starlings
Two starlings on a train platform, one looking up and one about to peck at the ground
September 20, 2023 at 10:03 AM