Sheffield Museums

💯 New vacancy! Project Officer (Defining a Decade) 💯 We're looking for a super creative, organised, and team-orientated Project Officer to help refine and focus Sheffield Museums’ ambition to become a progressive, resilient and sustainable organisation, rooted in the city. You'll create frameworks, commission and review research, lead on liaison with the National Lottery Heritage Fund, compile reports and deliver activities such as consultation events. This a collaborative role, so you'll work closely with colleagues across the museums, volunteers, communities, external contractors and more! ✨ ⏳ Apply by midnight on Thu 4 Jun⏳ Interested, or know someone who is? Find out more and apply in the link in our bio 🔗 👆 #SheffieldMuseums #CreativeSheffield #SheffieldArt #HeritageSheffield #SheffieldHeritage #SheffieldHistory #SheffieldExploringLocal #SheffieldJobs #ArtsJobs #MuseumJobs

Making Room for Children and Art is a free symposium on artist-parent-child collaborations and other strategies for continuing a creative practice alongside caring for children 🎨⁠ ⁠ By @assuntaruocco_studio with @blocprojects and @artworkingparents , hosted by @sheffmuseums ⁠ 📆 Wednesday, 27 May, 12-4pm⁠ 📍 Millennium Gallery, Sheffield ⁠ ⁠ Convened by artist and researcher and lecturer in Fine Art @unilincolfineart @assuntaruocco_studio Making Room for Children and Art brings together artists, curators, researchers and art workers to share, discuss and develop thinking around intergenerational collaboration and the conditions that support artist-parents/carers and children in cultural institutions, studios and public spaces.⁠ ⁠ Contributors include: 📷 3) Shirley Cameron, artist, Sheffield, on her pioneering collaborative practice with her daughters from the 1970s onwards. 📷 4)Hettie Judah, curator, writer and co-founder of the Art Working Parents Alliance, presenting from her new book ‘How to Enter the Art World...’ (Hoxton Mini Press, 2026) 📷 5) Jo Harrison, co-founder of the Art Working Parents Alliance, on the Alliance’s work building networks, visibility and advocacy for artist-parents across the UK. 📷 6) Assunta and Lou on their collaborative practice from 2020-ongoing. 📷7) Ellie Barrett, artist, on the Sculpture Kit, a resource developed with her daughter Nora, which will be available to play with on the day. 📷8) Magda Bielesz, artist, on her drawings and performances made in collaboration with her son Maurycy. 📷9)Karolina Korupczynska on the Mothership Studio at Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, a creative studio space with integrated childcare provision. ⁠We are fully booked at the moment. If you have booked a place and are no longer able to attend, please contact [email protected] so we can offer your place to someone on the waiting list. The link is in bio to register for the waiting list. Poster Image Credits: ⁠ Performance/installation Pyramid Colours⁠ by Shirley Cameron, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, 1986⁠

Sheffield Makes: @nobleandwylie 👞 Meet Kenneth, the craftsman and shoemaker behind Noble and Wylie, a workshop and shoe shop in Sheffield. Kenneth makes sustainable footwear by hand, using artisanal practices and traditional construction methods on heritage machines. His background in Fashion Design and pattern cutting has helped him refine his designs that are based on a modern utilartarian aesthetic with a gentle nod to the historic vintage styles of the British workshop. Each piece is fully repairable and made to last, echoing the brand’s strong environmental conscience and core design values. Kenneth discusses the background of his workshop and shows us the making process from cutting to finishing. He also addresses the modern realities of running a successful brand and workshop today, including the conflicting impact of social media. Sheffield Makes is a series of short films about Sheffield makers, processes and products produced within the City of Sheffield and surrounding area. It’s part of our Digital Programme, and offers a unique insight into the latest chapter in Sheffield’s making story. Head to the 🔗 in bio for full film 👆 #sheffieldmuseums #creativesheffield #creativesheffield @sheffieldcitycouncil @aceagrams @visitsheffield

Save the Date! 💌 Wedding Open Day – Sun 27 September (image by @photosbyhash ) Join us at our Wedding Open Day to gather inspiration for your own perfect wedding and meet our team and fabulous suppliers! Explore our beautiful, historic venue, get ideas for styling, photography and food, and more. Featuring: @wildweddingdays @jellybeanphotobooth @hayleygellphotography @therealkelhamevents @vintagevolksweddings @key_reflections @foxmoonphotography @jessicawoodhouseillustration @bettysflowerclub @pjtaste @oliveandsagecatering @roisterevents and XTC Discos Plus, more to come Wedding Open Day: See our venue set up, as it could be for your ceremony and reception! No need to book, just drop in. 📅 Sun 27 Sept, 11am – 2pm 📍 Kelham Island Museum 🔗 Head to our website for all the details: .uk/whats-on/wedding-open-day/ --- #sheffieldwedding #kelhamislandmuseumwedding #SheffieldWeddingVenue #SheffieldVenues #yorkshirewedding

Come beautify the night, @otismensah Ahead of Otis’s rare Sheffield home-coming performance next week, we’re sharing a clip from ‘Come Beautify the Night’, by Otis Mensah, an artwork which was recently acquired for the city’s visual art collection. ✨ 🎟️ Book tickets now! Performance: Come Beautify the Night – Fri 22 May, 7-10pm the Millennium Gallery. Don’t miss this one-night-only fusion of avant-garde sound, poetry, film and live performance. Featuring an exclusive screening of Come Beautify the Night and artist conversation with @komidashi and the incredible @yume_net , alongside Otis. 🌹 This is a Pay What you Can event, so you can support in any way that you can 👏. It’s going to be a beautiful evening 🌃 #letscreate #sheffileldmuseums #whatsonsheff #sheffieldevents #sheffieldexploringlocal

The Ruskin Collection: Storm-Cloud - The Look of the Sky opened at the Millennium Gallery in Dec, and since then, artists from across the world have been responding to Ruskin’s revolutionary 1884 lecture, which was one of the first to discuss climate change, and inspired this exhibition @ruskintoday Here’s curator, Ashley Gallant, to explain how this digital artwork by @doctortompayne and @goodgoodgoodall is evolving thanks to artists across the world responding to the lecture. This exhibition brings together work from the @ruskintoday collection, curated by our @natsatclub young people, with video work by @goodgoodgoodall and research by @doctortompayne at @sheffhallamuni The Ruskin Collection: Storm-Cloud - the Look of the Sky continues at the Millennium Gallery until 29 Nov 26. If you like this exhibition, please donate £5 to help care for Sheffield’s collection and celebrate the stories they tell. #ruskintoday #johnruskin #whatsonsheff #sheffieldmuseums creativesheffield @visitsheffield

✨ Open Call - Visual Artists ✨ We would like to invite expressions of interest from Visual Artists to create new work in dialogue with an artwork from Sheffield’s collection, bringing different perspectives to the fore. Sheffield Museums believe that the city’s Collection prompts many wide-ranging conversations and we are interested in how artists can use these conversations to explore ideas and develop their practice. Commission Brief: The new artwork should engage with Sheffield’s Visual Art Collection. It can consider a single artwork or a series of artworks from the Collection that resonate with you and your creative practice. Alternatively, it might consider the Collection more broadly or provide an alternative narrative or take the form of deeper interpretation. The artwork will be displayed in the Graves Gallery. It can use any medium and cover any subject so long as it is rooted in Sheffield’s Visual Art Collection. How to apply Visit our website (link in bio) for full details, and to download the brief. Navigate to the brief on our website: Sheffield Museums > About us > Work With Us > Tenders and Opportunities Deadline: 12pm (noon) on Mon 1 Jun,. Our team are available to have informal conversations and to answer questions about the project via Microsoft Teams on Thu 14 May, 2 - 4pm and Tue 26 May, 10am - 12pm. Please share far and wide so we can reach as many artists as possible with this opportunity! #ArtOpportunities #CallForArtists #artsjobs #creativesheffield

Hercules, the ultimate LGBTQ beefcake from queer history 💪 Here’s curator Jon Sleigh to tell us about the three ages of Hercules, a trio that can be seen in Revolution, Revelation, Reinforcement: Queer Legacies in Sheffield’s Art Collection. The exhibition pairs or groups historic and contemporary artworks to explore through three key conversations – Revolution, the historical legal and social constraints surrounding Queer expression; Revelation, coded messages which have been hidden or deliberately obscured; and Reinforcement, how the foundations of Queer art and its histories continue to be retained and strengthened. Growing, caring for and sharing the city’s collections is only possible thanks to you and your generosity – please donate £5 to ensure that the collections, and the stories they tell, can be enjoyed for generations to come. Exhibition continues until 27 Feb 2027 at the Graves Gallery. #sheffieldmuseums #letscreate #creativesheffield #lgbtqhistory @visitsheffield

Meet @tommyhibberd the artist behind Sheffield in Motion, currently on display at Weston Park Museum. We’ve been blown away by the response from our visitors to this display, not least over the past couple of weeks as Sheffield and sport have been in the spotlight again! 💫 Tommy will be back on site in a couple of weeks to give an exclusive artist talk about the series, his background as an artist / tattoo artist, and his unique scribble style. He’s also the first tattoo artist to display at the museum! 🤫 Lunchtime Talk: Tommy Hibberd - Scribble Art and the Energy of a Moment Thu 21 May, 1-1.45pm Weston Park Museum Booking recommeded. Please donate £5 to help us showcase homegrown creativity and ensure that everyone can enjoy the best in art and design here, on their doorstep. 🔗 link in bio to book! #letscreate @visitsheffield #sheffieldmuseums

I’m hosting a workshop at the lovely Millennium Gallery next month with @sheffmuseums - an evening class to make your very own colourful embellished brooch or patch to add to your tote bag/jumper or anything you like! Workshop is 5th June 6-8pm, and will be a relaxed and fun session with all materials provided. I’ve popped the ticket link in my bio, any questions please drop a comment below. Hope to see you there!

Curator Katie explains why this portrait of Owen Cooper by Dominic Whisson from the series The Threshold, 2025, has become a visitor favourite, and what makes the portrait so compelling. On display at the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 25 at the Millennium Gallery 💫 direct from @nationalportraitgallery Exhibition supported by Taylor Wessing. Visit the exhibition for free until Sun 10 May, please donate £5 - bringing the best in art and design to Sheffield is only possible thanks to your generosity 👏 #sheffieldmuseums #letscreate @visitsheffield

So excited to announce this goregous night of performance at @sheffmuseums Millennium Gallery on 22.05 in Sheffield. I’ll be delivering a poetic-sonic exploration alongside @komidashi and hosting the incredible @yume_net for a special performance. We’ll be screening some new sound-film works featuring movement and choreography from @jamalsterrett , which is currently in exhibition at Graves Gallery and a part of the Museum’s permanent collection. Ticket link in bio. Sheffield friends, see you there. Love—Otis. Poster. @blob.designs #sheffieldart #sheffieldmusic #sheffieldjazzscene #sheffieldpoetry #sheffieldmuseums