As part of a week-long BBC celebration, BBC Arts dedicated a full day to bringing the UK's fantastic museums to a global audience. Live stream hosts Dan Vo and Sacha Coward interviewed curators and other museum professionals across the day.
For our morning live stream, Dan and Sacha spoke to guests from Birmingham Museums, the Wellcome Collection and Pitt Rivers Museum for Who'd Be A Museum Director Today? Watch at the top of the page.
At lunchtime we heard from professionals at Museum of Croydon, Cynon Valley Museum and Glasgow Women's Library, for What Do Museums Do For Us?
Our afternoon live stream centred on Curator Battle does #BestPartyObject. Get ready for the weird, the wonderful and the uplifting from the wonderful world of museums - Catch up at the top of the page.
#MuseumPassion is a partnership with the Museums Association, Art Fund and the National Museum Directors' Council (NMDC).
See more from our Museum of the Year winner
You can see 165 artworks from Aberdeen Art Gallery, external on the Art UK website.
Image source, Marc AtkinsA visitor admires a painting at Aberdeen Art Gallery
This recently refurbished venue is another Art Fund Museum of the Year winner
Aberdeen Art Gallery, external first opened its doors 135 years ago, and now has one of the most diverse collections in the UK, with artists from Monet to Tracy Emin.
Image source, Marc AtkinsAberdeen Art Gallery
Quote MessageWe were bowled away by the way the public responded when we opened our doors again
Christine Rew, Aberdeen Art Gallery
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There are 117 Rembrandt oils in the UK's art collection, in galleries and collections up and down the country. You can browse them all, external on the Art UK website.
Image source, Dulwich Picture Gallery / ART UK (CC BY-NC-SA)Girl at a Window - Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)
Quote MessageNo artist better understood the fragile nature of human happiness.
In March 2020, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford had just opened a major new exhibition. Simon Schama was lucky enough to see it before the museum closed its doors. In this film he argues that, right now, we could all do with a touch of Rembrandt.
You can see highlights from the Ashmolean's Young Rembrandt exhibition, external online.
Museums are playing an important role in helping us understand the turbulent times we're currently living in:
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Free event at 1pm with David Dimbleby, Jenny Waldman, Caroline Lucas MP and Sara Cooper
David Dimbleby will chair today's debte
There will be a special Facebook Live on Towner Eastbourne's Facebook page at 1pm today, as part of Museums Week. Following on from Caroline Lucas’ curated exhibition BRINK at Towner in 2019-20, the panel will consider the role arts, culture and institutions can play in progressing the debate on the environment and its future.
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Image source, TownerBRINK at Towner, curated by Caroline Lucas MP
A new citizen science project needs your help
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is asking for the public's help to browse its art collection and tag the plants and animals they see. Researchers believe that studying drawings and paintings from the past can help us chart our changing relationship with the natural world.
The project is running on the Zooniverse platform. Have a go, external - it's strangely addictive.
Image source, Frans Ruiter / UnsplashThe Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is asking for your help
Concorde is one of the most iconic planes of all time. Aerospace Bristol will be demonstrating the droop nose of Concorde Alpha Foxtrot at 1pm. Former Conorde Pilot Tim Orchard will be on hand beforehand to explain what it was like to fly this supersonic craft.
The event will be streaming live on the Aerospace Bristol Facebook page, external.
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Emma Dabiri uncovers the story for Inside Museums, at the Ulster Museum in Belfast.
Susanna Drury, a talented Irish painter and female role model, changed the course of history with her 1730s paintings of the legendary Giant's Causeway on the Antrim coast. Her intricate gouache on vellum drawings inspired visitors and opened up the geological formation to scientific understanding.
Just one of the fascinating stories uncovered for #MuseumPassion by Emma Dabiri at the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Quote Message“I would really encourage visitors to stop and take in what this wonderful woman has achieved in the 18th century, so that we can talk about her as an awe-inspiring female role model for generations to come.”
Ciara McClements, National Trust
Emma explores the paintings of Susanna Drury displayed in the Ulster Museum, Belfast
#MuseumPassion is giving us the chance to peek inside some of Britain's most impressive buildings. We wouldn't mind working from home here...
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Spit and sawdust in old Cardiff
Cerys Matthews visits the reconstruction of the Vulcan Hotel, a Cardiff pub being restored to its heyday brick-by-brick at St Fagans National Museum. When the ancient bar reopens in 2023, it will once again serve real ales. The first round is on Cerys! This is just one story unearthed by Cerys during an ‘access-all-areas’ visit to her favourite museum for Inside Museums on BBC Four.
Cerys Matthews explores St Fagans Museum and the pub being rebuilt on site, brick by brick
The SLG is one of this year's Museum of the Year winners
Today we're showcasing the five winners of the Art Fund Museum of the Year award. The South London Gallery, external was opened in 1891. Since then it has expanded, taking over a disused fire station, and now has a permanent sculpture garden.
Image source, Marc AtkinsThe South London Gallery in Peckham
The gallery's emphasis is on presenting new work by British and international artists. It also focuses on working with a diverse local community, and runs creative workshops in the communal kitchen.
Quote MessageI think that one of the things that people love about the South London Gallery is that it's so welcoming to all sorts of people
Margaret Heller, South London Gallery
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Some of the inspiring stories being shared on social media today:
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The Sainsbury Centre in Norwich are currently celebrating Art Deco: a new style that permeated everyday life in the 1920s and '30s.
With a revolution in transport after the war, thousands of ordinary people flocked to the seaside. This new-found freedom is captured in the iconic railway posters of the era, which promoted the nation's holiday resorts. Art Deco by the Sea is a delightful film celebrating this golden age of tourism, from the Culture in Quarantine team.
You can see highlights from the exhibition, external on the Sainsbury Centre website.
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The Culture Cafe celebrates Ulster Museum in Belfast
The Culture Cafe, BBC Radio Ulster's weekly arts programme, embraced #MuseumPassion this week. Host Marie-Louise Muir was joined by guests, including comedian Phill Jupitus and presenter and social historian Emma Dabiri, to celebrate the re-opening of the iconic Ulster Museum.
Belfast-based musician Herb Magee, AKA Arvo Party, provided a specially commissioned soundtrack based on his experiences of the Ulster Museum.
Culture Cafe guest Emma Dabiri. Emma also presents a special Inside Museums programme on the Ulster Museum, available now on BBC iPlayer.
In 2015, the Natural History Museum, external in London took the controversial decision to replace their iconic Diplodocus skeleton with a new exhibit. The BBC's Horizon programme followed the museum team as they set about moving the 292-boned skeleton.
Following the installation of a huge blue whale skeleton at the Natural History Museum.
Do you have memories of Dippy, or of the iconic blue whale? Share them at #MuseumPassion
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With exhibits that explore the origins of the Solar System, as well as the 21st Century struggle to build a sustainable future, few museums match the timespan of the Natural History Museum, external in London. There are several ways you can explore the museum online, external, from an audio tour narrated by David Attenborough to a virtual stroll with Google Street View.
Like us, you'll probably start by heading straight for the dinosaurs, external...
Image source, Natural History MuseumHintze Hall at the Natural History Museum, London