Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions | Upcoming Exhibitions | Previous Exhibitions

Objects from the Galton Collection regularly feature in exhibitions at UCL and beyond.

Current Exhibitions

Plastered
Plastered
21st January - 19th April
UCL Art Museum

UCL Art Museum is delighted to present Plastered, an exhibition about plaster and the casting process highlighting the sculpture models of the neoclassical artist John Flaxman (1755-1826). A pioneer during an age of industrialism, Flaxman was the first British sculptor to use the technique as a consistent part of his working practice, revealing early on the material’s extraordinary versatility.

 
Model Translations
Model Translations
27th November - 30th April
Octagon Gallery

The first ever exhibition in the Octagon Gallery is Model Translations. This exhibition showcases objects – some never displayed before – from the art, anthropology, archaeology, engineering, pathology and zoology collections. These objects reveal creative encounters and explorations between scholars and the natural and made environment, but at times materialise world views that are problematic and difficult to reconcile today.

 
The Who Am I Gallery at the Science Museum
Who Am I?
Permanent Gallery
Science Museum

What makes you smarter than a chimp? What makes you smile? What makes you, you?

Who am I? invites you to explore the science of who you are through intriguing objects, provocative artworks and hands-on exhibits.

Discover what your voice sounds like as a member of the opposite sex, morph your face to see what you’ll look like as you age, or collect DNA to catch a criminal in our brand-new interactive exhibits. Investigate some of the characteristics that make humans such a successful species, such as personality, intelligence and language. Reflect on the big questions that new techniques in science are raising, and explore how your genetics and brain combine to create your unique identity.

  

Upcoming exhibitions

Brains: The mind as matter
26th July 2013 - 4th January 2014
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

See details of the original exhibition, curated by the Wellcome Collection.

Previous exhibitions

Typecast - Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton

Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton

29 March – 22 December 2011

In 1886 Francis Galton commissioned Flinders Petrie to take photographs of different ‘racial types’ that were present in or enemies of Ancient Egyptian civilization. This was part of Galton’s project of skull measurements and research into racial difference and the start of a lifelong friendship between Galton and Petrie.

All the panels for the Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton exhibition are now downloadable from petriemuseum.com. Each blog post gives additional information, research and audience reactions to the exhibition.

An Enquiring Mind: Sir Francis Galton

An Enquiring Mind: Sir Francis Galton

March-December 2011

An exhibition of material from UCL Library Services Special Collections, with additional items on loan from UCL Museums & Collections.

This exhibition in the Main Library was part of a Galton Centenary programme taking place at UCL to mark the anniversary of Sir Francis Galton's death in January 1911. Deposited at UCL by his executors, Special Collections holds papers and correspondence relating to Galton's personal history, family and scientific work, while Museums & Collections holds his scientific instruments and other personal memorabilia.

The UCL Library 'Exhibitions' website also includes two video podcasts featuring researchers talking about Galton.