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Events at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
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UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF ANCIENT EGYPT Date: Every Tues from May 14 - June 25th | Time: 6-8.30pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: £80 for the 7 week course email jacinth.martin@csep.org.uk for booking and payment options | Age group: Adults and Older Teens | Author Robin Walker of When We Ruled takes this 7 week short course exploring history, culture and achievements of this ancient African civilisation, demonstrating that there is ample evidence allowing a detailed reconstruction of this culture drawn from a wide variety of source materials.
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TIMEKEEPER IN RESIDENCE INSTALLATION Date: 12 June - 2 August | Time: Tues -Sat 1-5pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: FREE | Age group: ANY | What does time look like to you ? A Storm is Blowing by Cathy Haynes is a temporary commission for UCL Petrie Museum. It's an improvised 3D diagram that strings together 35 different historical pictures and models of time: an ancient Egyptian game of life in the form of a coiled snake, the philosopher Hegel's vision of history as a tulip bulb, a minature Beast of the Apocalypse, a cosmological wormhole, a 19th century parent of Facebook timeline, and its knotty antithesis. See www.astormisblowing.org for more details on the Timekeeper in residence.
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PETRIE'S SET: A WALKING TOUR EGYPTOLOGICAL BLOOMSBURY Date: 6 July | Time: Starts at the Petrie Museum at 12noon and ends at around 2pm at The Petrie Museum. | Price: Free and places limited so booking essential at http://petriewalk.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: 18 + | Join Egyptologist John J Johnston as he takes you around the regular haunts of Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and his fascinating academic circle during the 'Golden Age' of British Egyptology where you will be introduced to tales of the Egyptologists who lived and worked in Bloomsbury between 1882 and 1933.
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LONDON IN SLOW MOTION Date: 20 July | Time: 11am -2pm approx | Location: Central London ending at The Petrie | Price: Free but places limited and booking essential at http://timewalk.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: 18+ | The Petrie's Timekeeper Cathy Haynes joins alternative tour guide Rosie Oliver (Dotmaker Tours) for a special version of her tour of London in Slow Motion, looking for pockets of the city where time flows to a different beat.
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