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<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/</link>
<description>Blog posts by the staff and curators of Sheffield's Millennium Gallery, Weston Park, Graves Gallery and Bishops’ House</description>
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<title><![CDATA[A century of Stainless steel]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/5/a-century-of-stainless-steel</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Museums Sheffield’s Curator of Metalwork, Lucy Cooper on the preparations to celebrate next year’s centenary of the discovery of Stainless steel in Sheffield.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sheffield families on show]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/4/sheffield-families-on-show</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/4/sheffield-families-on-show</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:10:28 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Photographer Jonathan Turner on his commission to create a series of photographs representing Sheffield families for the exhibition The Family in British Art.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leading Museums Sheffield forward]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/4/leading-museums-sheffield-forward</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/4/leading-museums-sheffield-forward</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:03:25 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Newly appointed Chief Executive of Museums Sheffield, Kim Streets, explains her aspirations for the city.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anthony d’Offay returns to Sheffield]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/4/anthony-d’offay-returns-to-sheffield</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/4/anthony-d’offay-returns-to-sheffield</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Curator Alison Mrton blogs about art collector Anthony d’Offay's visit to Sheffield last week to co-curate Andy Warhol: Late Self-Portraits.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Warhol - Why ‘Late Self-Portraits’?]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/warhol-why-‘late-self-portraits’</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:02:50 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Exhibitions Curator, Alison Morton, explains the ideas behind the theme of the forthcoming Andy Warhol exhibition.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Impact of funding cut felt at Bishops' House]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/impact-of-funding-cut-felt-at-bishops-house</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/impact-of-funding-cut-felt-at-bishops-house</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Details of reductions to our learning provision for schools from 1 April.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A look back at the Blk Art Group exhibition]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/a-look-back-at-the-blk-art-group-exhibition</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/a-look-back-at-the-blk-art-group-exhibition</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Curator of Visual Art, Louisa Briggs, reflects on an important exhibition about to close at the Graves Gallery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Just One Canaletto]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/just-one-canaletto</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/just-one-canaletto</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Curator of Visual Art, Louisa Briggs, on a distinguished Italian guest currently residing in the Graves Gallery]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spring Shoots & Scores]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/spring-shoots-and-scores</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/3/spring-shoots-and-scores</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A sneak preview of exhibitions coming your way in the next few months.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nick Dodd steps down as Chief Executive]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/nick-dodd-steps-down-as-chief-executive</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/nick-dodd-steps-down-as-chief-executive</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After 10 years with Museums Sheffield, our Chief Exec Nick Dodd is stepping down.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Confirmation of Transitional Arts Council England Funding]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/confirmation-of-transitional-arts-council-england-funding</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/confirmation-of-transitional-arts-council-england-funding</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Details of an agreement reached last week with Arts Council England.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Update on ongoing Arts Council England funding negotiations]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/update-on-ongoing-arts-council-england-funding-negotiations</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/update-on-ongoing-arts-council-england-funding-negotiations</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Museums Sheffield's Chief Executive, Nick Dodd on our ongoing funding negotiations with the Arts Council.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Weekend show of support for city's museums and galleries]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/weekends-show-of-support-for-citys-museums-and-galleries</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/weekends-show-of-support-for-citys-museums-and-galleries</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This weekend's Shefftopia event saw the Millennium Gallery overrun with picnic blankets, pop-up craft activites and as much good will as one building can house, while Weston Park hosted a creative celebration with the city's communities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Local MP's meet with Arts Council]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/local-mps-meet-with-arts-council</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/local-mps-meet-with-arts-council</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A brief update on today's meetings with the Arts Council.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Continued support from Sheffield City Council]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/continued-support-from-sheffield-city-council</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/continued-support-from-sheffield-city-council</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sheffield City Council confirmed with us yesterday that it will retain our core funding at present levels over 2012/13.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feedback on Sheffield's Major Grants bid from Arts Council England]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/feedback-on-sheffields-major-grants-bid-from-arts-council-england</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/2/feedback-on-sheffields-major-grants-bid-from-arts-council-england</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We have now published the feedback on Sheffield's Major Grants bid from Arts Council England.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An update on Arts Council England’s decision to end funding for Museums Sheffield]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/an-update-on-arts-council-england’s-decision-to-end-funding-for-museums-sheffield</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/an-update-on-arts-council-england’s-decision-to-end-funding-for-museums-sheffield</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today our management team met with Arts Council England’s Yorkshire team in Dewsbury to discuss last week’s decision not to award Sheffield Renaissance Major Grant funding.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Help us make the case for culture in Sheffield]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/help-us-make-the-case-for-culture-in-sheffield</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/help-us-make-the-case-for-culture-in-sheffield</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Details of how you can help us respond to recently announced funding cuts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Museums Sheffield suffers devastating budget blow]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/museums-sheffield-suffers-devastating-budget-blow</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/museums-sheffield-suffers-devastating-budget-blow</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re-discovering Sheffield’s ‘works on paper’ collection]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/re-discovering-sheffield’s-‘works-on-paper’-collection</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/re-discovering-sheffield’s-‘works-on-paper’-collection</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Project Co-ordinator Arantza Barrutia-Wood blogs about an important research and conservation project she's leading at Museums Sheffield.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China: Journey to the East – putting Museums Sheffield’s stamp on a touring exhibition]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/china-journey-to-the-east-–-putting-museums-sheffield’s-stamp-on-a-touring-exhibition</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2012/1/china-journey-to-the-east-–-putting-museums-sheffield’s-stamp-on-a-touring-exhibition</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Exhibition curator Teresa Whittaker gives the lowdown on the new China: Journey to the East exhibition, on tour to Weston Park from the British Museum.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A year in the life of a Natural History Curator]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/12/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-natural-history-curator</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/12/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-natural-history-curator</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Curator of Natural History, Alistair McLean, looks back at some of his highlights from 2011.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Join the Sheffield Family Tree]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/join-the-sheffield-family-tree</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/join-the-sheffield-family-tree</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our Curator of Visual Art, Louisa Briggs on how you could see your family snapshots on display at the Millennium Gallery as part of our new exhibition The Family in British Art.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Derrick Greaves - a visitor favourite]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/portrait-of-a-citys-past</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/portrait-of-a-citys-past</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lisa Beauchamp, Curator of Visual Art, on Derrick Greaves’ portrait of industrial Sheffield.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[All change in the Ruskin Collection]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/all-change-in-the-ruskin-collection</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/all-change-in-the-ruskin-collection</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Louise Pullen, curator of the Ruskin Collection, on the new works which went on show at the Millennium Gallery this week.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New additions to Graves Gallery displays]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/new-additions-to-graves-gallery-collection</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/new-additions-to-graves-gallery-collection</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Curator Louisa Briggs talks about what's new at the Graves.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Discovering Precious Cargo]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/discovering-precious-cargo</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/discovering-precious-cargo</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Museums Sheffield’s Youth Partnership Coordinator, Graham Moore on the Precious Cargo Discovery Day]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Visual art meets performance for Bagofti]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/visual-art-meets-performance-for-bagofti</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/11/visual-art-meets-performance-for-bagofti</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Communities Manager, Jon Bradley on bringing contemporary dance into the Millennium Gallery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Picturing Sheffield’s Metalworking Past]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/10/picturing-sheffields-metalworking-past</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/10/picturing-sheffields-metalworking-past</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Museums Sheffield's Curator of Visual Art, Louisa Briggs on William Rothenstein’s The Buffer Girls, 1919.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sheffield’s Silver Plated Success]]></title>
<link>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/10/sheffield’s-silver-plated-success</link>
<guid>http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/blog/2011/10/sheffield’s-silver-plated-success</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Senior Curator of Humanities, Clare Starkie on an example of one of the key developments in Sheffield’s metalworking history.]]></description>
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