Surprise! We’ve just added some massive new names to the Crossed Wires 2025 lineup 🚨 From politics and economics to family-friendly parties, this year has something for everyone. Tickets go on sale this Friday, but you can sign up for early access at crossedwires.live Please welcome to the lineup: – @podsavetheuk Sheffield Special with @mrnishkumar @cocobyname & guest @garyseconomics – The Political Party with special guest @nightmayor_2025 – @budpodofficial with @wangpix & @pierrenovellie – @cope.nick – Fun Kids Science Weekly Crossed Wires 2025 is shaping up to be our biggest year yet. Who’s with us?

Whoop! Happy Half-Term everyone!🌼 We've got lots of hands-on, fun family activities for little ones to enjoy across all our sites this week! So, let's get crafty and creative - just pop along and have a go! We can't wait to welcome you 😊 Family Activity: ‘Play Another Record, DJ’ 📍 Tue 27 May, 12 – 3pm | Weston Park Museum | Suggested donation £3, just drop in 🎶Music lovers, this one’s for you! Have a go at designing and collaging a record cover for your favourite band or singer. Family Activity: Coffee and Tea Painting 📍 Wed 28 May, 12 – 3pm | The Millennium Gallery | Suggested donation £3, just drop in ☕Try landscape painting with a difference – using tea, coffee and spices to create your picture. Family Activity: Balancing Act 📍 Thu 29 May, 12 – 3pm | Kelham Island Museum | Suggested donation £3, just drop in 🏗Test your building skills (and your patience!) in this hands-on engineering activity. Family Workshop: Printing the Past – Cyanotype Experiments 📍Sat 31 May, 1 – 1.50pm, 2 – 2.50pm, 3 – 3.50pm | Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet | £7, booking essential 📷Take part in this bookable workshop where you’ll be inspired by the grounds and industrial past of Abbeydale to make your own cyanotype prints to take home. 🔗https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on?category=Family+Events+%26+Activities

How has it been 1 whole week since Pollen Market!? Whilst reminiscing on last Sunday’s Pollen, we’ve also been busy planning the next…👀 Who’s excited for more of this? ☝️🌻 Pollen Inner-City Flower Market Sunday 15th June 10am-4pm Grey to Green, S3 8BX www.pollenmarket.co.uk

‘…artists have through the ages attempted to rationalise the magic that is a person and personality into a two-dimensional likeness.’ @lilianetomasko Liliane Tomasko: The Psyche of the Portrait is now open at the Millennium Gallery! The theme of the subconscious is a thread through the work of Liliane Tomasko and these latest works take a bold new direction, responding to four evocative portraits in the city’s collection by Frank Auerbach, Pierre Bonnard, Kees Van Dongen and Eduardo Paolozzi. Each chosen for what it offers as a doorway to psychological thought. While a portrait is typically a surface endeavour, Tomasko delves deeper – confronting the psychological dynamic between artist and sitter and exploring how our inner worlds shape the images we make. This exhibition connects 20th-century portraiture with our 21st-century psyche. 📍 Millennium Gallery 🗓️ Open now until 12 Oct 🔗 https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/liliane-tomasko-the-psyche-of-the-portrait/ Suggested donation £5 – please donate if you’re able and help keep your museums open and available for everyone to enjoy. Image details: 1. Liliane Tomasko, Portrait of a Psyche split in half (van Dongen), 2025 © the artist 2. Liliane Tomasko, Portrait of a Psyche split in half (Bonnard), 2025 © the artist 3. Liliane Tomasko, Psyche (and the Self watching itself), 2025 © the artist 4. Liliane Tomasko, Portrait of a Psyche divided by three (Paolozzi), 2025 © the artist