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Today is National Tile Day

We have lots of tiles in our collections, many of which we have turned into #MuseumJigsaws

🧩 www.jigsawplanet.com/BarnsleyMuse... 🧩

#NationalTileDay #tiles #puzzle #jigsaw #game
February 23, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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Combining #PuzzleMonday with #Museum30 with a series of #rainbow themed #MuseumJigsaws 🌈

🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete these #MuseumJigsaws 🧩

🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws

#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art
A rainbow over Barnsley town hall A rainbow over Cannon Hall A rainbow over Worsbrough Mill A rainbow over Elsecar Heritage Centre
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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On Slow Moving Art Day spend some time with 'Flower Piece' by Jan van Huysum 🌸🌺🥀

We have turned this and most of our artwork into 🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩

👉 bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...

#art #DigitalArt #puzzle #game #SlowMovingArt
April 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩 #NationalPuzzleDay

Your final puzzle today is a collection of Barnsley Museums paintings

Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
January 29, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAlliteration

Beautiful Barnsley was a a photographic exhibition at Cannon Hall Museum in 2021.

The overall winner was Kyle Parr with 'Evening Fields in Dodworth'

You can re-visit the exhibition is a series of #MuseumJigsaws www.jigsawplanet.com/BarnsleyMuse...
A black and white photo of a rural dirt path flanked by wooden fences, leading into the distance under a dramatic sky with the sun shining through scattered clouds.
July 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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We forgot to mention earlier that we have made a #BrewMonday series of #MuseumJigsaws based on all these featured portraits

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This week we're combining #PuzzleMonday with #BrewMonday

🧩Let us know how long it takes to complete this #MuseumJigsaw 🧩

🎨 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws

We didn't realise how much of our artwork featured cups of tea until we took a closer look 😉
A collage of eight classical paintings, each depicting people from different eras and social classes holding teacups or sharing tea, in lavish costumes or rustic attire, both indoors and outdoors.
January 19, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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This time 6 years ago we were all washing our hands while singing happy birthday.

We started thinking of new ways to stay in touch with our audience as our doors were closed

#MuseumJigsaws started as a one off post but quickly became part of people's daily routine and still continues today! 👇
a montage of 21 landscape paintings from our collections
March 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Flattery will get you...everywhere, enjoy 😊https://bit.ly/RoystonMuseumPuzzle

#MuseumJigsaws
Royston Museum - jigsaw puzzle (50 pieces)
An online jigsaw puzzle with 50 pieces.
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March 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Does anyone feel like today is Monday pt2?

As we didn't do our regular #PuzzleMonday jigsaw yesterday we thought we'd share one today

This is our lovely Barnsley Heritage map illustrated by Liz Kay

Piece it together here: bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws

#MuseumJigsaws #puzzle #game #heritage
A brightly coloured illustrated map with icons depicting heritage areas of interest in Barnsley.
September 1, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay

Your puzzle this hour is winter at Cannon Hall

Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...

#puzzle #game #landscape #winter
A scenic landscape with rolling hills, scattered trees, and light morning mist under a blue sky with wispy clouds. Sunlight gently illuminates the grassy field and distant hills.
January 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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*Festive mode activated*

Our present to you: The Barnsley Museum advent calendar 🎄

bit.ly/BMAdventCale...

Come back to this link each day for a new #MuseumJigsaws challenge and unlock other content

Monk Bretton school children in the snow, 1950s ☃️
Smiling children wrapped up in winter coats stand next to their snowman
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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🦚 Here you go: A stunning @demorganfoundation.bsky.social tile from Cannon Hall Museum

This is one of several tiles that we have turned into #MuseumJigsaws www.jigsawplanet.com?rc=play&pid=...
Red and white decorative illustration of a peacock on a square tile. The peacock has an elaborate, patterned tail and is surrounded by floral designs, giving a vintage and artistic look.
March 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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#BlueskyMonday The Doge's Palace, Venice' by Louis Desire Thienon

Play the #MuseumJigsaws puzzle
🧩 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws 🧩

Thienon was a French artist who spent a great deal of time travelling around Europe and North Africa.

#BlueskyArt #Art #Venice #Italy
Oil painting of a cityscape of Venice with the Doge's Palace on the right and the Campanile on the left. The basilica of Saint Mark can be seen in the mid distance. Ther are numerous gondole on the lagoon in the foreground.
April 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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🧩#MuseumJigsaws 🧩 celebrates National Puzzle Day

It has become a tradition on 29 January that we share a puzzle every hour!

Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw2089

#NationalPuzzleDay #jigsaw #game
A stone building with a central entrance and shops on either side is framed by a colorful jigsaw puzzle border in red, blue, yellow, and green.
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Solve the 🧩#MuseumJigsaws🧩 puzzle

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'Mrs Tuder' by John Constable - jigsaw puzzle (63 pieces)
An online jigsaw puzzle with 63 pieces.
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June 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩 are back for 2026!

'La Lecture dans la Campagne' by Henri Charles Antoine Baron

Simply follow this link ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...

Baron was an important French painter in the 19th century

#jigsaw #puzzle #game #art
Classical oil painting depicting a family resting outdoors in a wooded landscape, with a bearded man in rich red and gold Renaissance-style clothing reading from an open book
January 6, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay

Your puzzle this hour is: 'The long night of a needless storm' by John Ledger

Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...

You can see this drawing in the Straight A's exhibition at The Cooper Gallery

#jigsaw #puzzle #art
An abstract black-and-white drawing of mountains with intricate geometric patterns, houses in the background, underground tunnels with lights, and boats sailing on water in the foreground.
January 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay

Your puzzle this hour is the Stories of Childhood exhibition at Experience Barnsley Museum

Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...

#puzzle #game #jigsaw #toys
A museum display case featuring vintage toys and games, including a Monopoly box, a Scrabble board, a Scrabble rules sheet, action figures, a teddy bear, a lead farm animal set, and informational labels.
January 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay

Your puzzle this hour is from Barnsley Archives and Local Studies Locke Park in the snow, 1988

Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...
A person walks along a cleared, winding path through a snow-covered park with bare trees and a small shelter in the background on a bright winter day.
January 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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We love a #MuseumSuperbowl *almost* as much as we love a #MuseumSuperbOwl 🥣 🦉

So we're giving you both - and we've turned them into #MuseumJigsaws 🧩

Touchdown.
www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

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Ceramic bowl with a painted floral pattern on the front and inside the rim. Page from an illuminated medieval manuscript in yellow featuring illustrations of birds, bugs, and flowers around a rectangle of Latin text. In the bottom right corner is an owl with a frown.
February 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Today is #NationalChristmasCardDay

This week our #MuseumJigsaws are Christmas cards by local artists which are for sale at The Cooper Gallery

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#WeekXForXmas
A snowman with a carrot nose and a plaid scarf looks surprised as a donkey wearing a red halter sniffs or nibbles at its carrot nose while snow falls around them. Watercolour illustration of holly leaves, fir branches, green foliage, and clusters of red and white berries arranged in a festive, decorative pattern on a white background.
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay

Your puzzle this hour is: A section of the Elsecar heritage map by Liz Kay

Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...

See the full map when you next visit Elsecar Heritage Centre

#puzzle #game #map #jigsaw
Illustrated map showing Elsecar Park, a reservoir, cafes, and shops. Features a green steam train, labeled "6th Earl Fitzwilliam’s private railway station 1870," and Elsecar Heritage Centre with surrounding historic buildings.
January 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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🧩 #MuseumJigsaws 🧩#NationalPuzzleDay

Your puzzle this hour is 'How We Blossom' by Barnsley's Young Commissioners

Simply follow this link: ➡ bit.ly/CooperJigsaw...

This artwork features in the Expressing the Walls in my Mind exhibition

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A collage featuring knitted swatches in blue, green, and cream tones surrounds photos of plush toys, animated characters, and people, including a large teddy bear and a star-shaped plushie.
January 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Can you believe it's 5 years
since the first pandemic lockdown?

Trying to find some positives from that weird time, Barnsley Museums brought people together digitally in lots of different ways including a #MuseumJigsaws challenge which continues today

🧩 www.jigsawplanet.com/BarnsleyMuse... 🧩
A t shirt which says 2020 very bad, would not recommend, one star. With a mug that says you're on mute, inside the mug is hand sanitiser and a face mask.
March 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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To make up for us not being online yesterday here are four #MuseumJigsaws

🧩 bit.ly/BlueskyJigsaws

#jigsaw #puzzle #game #TilesOnTuesday
Colorful ceramic tile with a symmetrical floral pattern. A dark blue flower with a yellow and green center is surrounded by green leaves, set against a white background with red, blue, and yellow decorative accents. Colorful ceramic tile with a central blue flower surrounded by green and pink leaves on a red and light blue diamond background, bordered by green and yellow geometric patterns. Decorative tile featuring two large dark blue flowers with yellow centers, green leaves, and geometric borders of small white flowers on a brown background, accented with blue dots and orange trim. Ornate ceramic tile with a central green floral motif and a white star-shaped flower, surrounded by geometric blue, black, and white triangular patterns with gold and brown borders.
April 28, 2026 at 6:49 AM