{"id":673944,"date":"2026-11-03T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673944\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:42:12","slug":"poole-museum-fundraises-for-masthead-sculpture-homage-to-carers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673944\/","title":{"rendered":"Poole Museum fundraises for masthead sculpture homage to carers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A museum is appealing for help to keep a colourful masthead sculpture, created as a homage to carers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work is part of a major exhibition at Poole Museum in Dorset, by artist Jason Wilsher-Mills, and was inspired by the museum&#8217;s collections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilsher-Mills, who is disabled, said the sculpture was a nod to &#8220;the unsung heroes of our society&#8230; who deserve our recognition and lasting gratitude&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poole Museum, which is celebrating its first birthday following a major revamp, has already secured nearly \u00a310,000 of funding and is appealing for a further \u00a310,000 to buy the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A museum is appealing for help to keep a colourful masthead sculpture, created as a homage to carers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-673944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}