Twitter, a place where people chat about their latest cup of coffee (guilty!) or hang on the latest comment from tabloid celeb X (not guilty!), also has a more worthy side to it. Quite a few museums have leapt onto the Twitter bandwagon and use it as a good way of communicating either news about what they are up to, or just random chatter that is relevant to their topic.
For example, the Natural History Museum has a “species of the day” series going on at the moment, along with general natural history chatter – or there is the Imperial War Museum who regularly mention “this day in history” type events from previous wars.
A group have therefore declared that today (1st Feb) is Follow a Museum Day, and Twitter users are exhorted to click the necessary and keep informed with what museums are up to.
I naturally follow about every museum in London I can find, mainly for the purposes of maintaining the events list, but also as some of them are genuinely quite interesting.
For your convenience, you can follow all of the London museums with a single click by subscribing to a list I maintain – @IanVisits/London-Museums.
Alternatively, the full list I follow is below – there is also a list over at the Follow a Museum Day website.
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BarbicanCentre Barbican Centre | London |
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BFHouse Ben Franklin House | 36 Craven St London |
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bletchleypark Kelsey Griffin | Bletchley, UK |
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britishlibrary The British Library | London NW1 2DB |
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britishmuseum British Museum | London |
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Burghhouse1704 Burgh House |
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DesignMuseum Design Museum | London |
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DickensMuseum Dickens Museum | 48 Doughty Street, London |
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DulwichGallery Dulwich Gallery | Gallery Road, Dulwich, London |
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ExploreWellcome Wellcome Collection | London, UK |
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GEFFRYE London |
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HornimanMuseum Horniman Museum | Forest Hill, London SE23 |
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ICALondon The ICA | The Mall, London |
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I_W_M Imperial War Museum | London, Duxford, Manchester |
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ldnfilmmuseum London Film Museum | County Hall, London |
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ltmuseum L T Museum | London |
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MuseumChildhood Museum of Childhood | Bethnal Green, London |
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MuseumofLondon Museum of London | London, UK |
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Musevery Museum of Everything | London |
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NHM_London NaturalHistoryMuseum | South Kensington, London |
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postalheritage BPMA | London, Essex and Shropshire |
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RaggedSchool Ragged School Museum | London E3 |
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RAFMUSEUM RAF Museum | North London + Shropshire |
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sciencemuseum Science Museum | Exhibition Road, London |
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SomersetHouse Somerset House |
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Tate London, Liverpool and St Ives |
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UCLMuseums Central London |
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V_and_A V&A | London |
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WallaceMuseum Wallace Collection | Central London |