As we have exhibitions at Experience Barnsley Museum & The Cooper Gallery celebrating the life of Brian Wildsmith we thought we'd search our own collections for animals and fill a #BarnsleyArk
We begin with a ceramic figure of a Hippo by Rosemary Wren
barnsley-museums.com/wildsmith
Presenting the #BarnsleyArk We're creating a fictional ark filled with animals and we want your help to complete it!
It could be an animal or an inanimate object - basically we just want to flood Twitter with photos of animals, and why not?
This week we're looking for cats πββ¬
We're continuing to fill our fictional #BarnsleyArk and in doing so flooding social media with lovely animal photos.
This week we're asking you to share something owl related π¦
From Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens a tudric owl Jug
We're continuing to fill our #BarnsleyArk Basically an excuse to flood social media with animal photos!
This week we want your dogs! They could be the four legged variety or an object like this ceramic plate by Henry Crealock for Wedgwood
Last week we started creating a virtual #BarnsleyArk Sharing an animal from our collections and asking you to share yours, whether than is an animal or object.
This week we'd like to see your horses π΄πππ
As we continue to fill up our #BarnsleyArk we're on the look out for fish this week.
Does anyone still own a billy bass singing fish? #ShowUsYourStuff
For our #BarnsleyArk this week we'd like you to share anything you have that is penguin related π§
Here's our Doulton penguin from Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens
see more of our collections by visiting explorebarnsleycollections.com
For this weeks #BarnsleyArk we'd like to see your chickens! Maybe you own something similar to this?
#ShowUsYourStuff π
We had a great response last week when we asked for cat based contributions for our fictional #BarnsleyArk
