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THE MICRARIUM: A PLACE FOR TINY THINGS

Date: Permanent Installation | Time: Museum opening hours | Location: Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL, University Street, London WC1e 6DE | Price: Free |

The Micrarium is a place for tiny things - somewhere to come and explore the microscopic specimens at the Grant Museum.

It’s often said that 95% of known animal species are smaller than your thumb, but have you noticed how most museums fill their displays with big animals? We intend to right this wrong, and in January 2013 we’ll be building a Micrarium.

We have converted an old office/storeroom into a beautiful back-lit cave displaying some of the tiniest specimens in the collection, on wall-to-wall microscope slides. Museums very rarely display objects like this, and we are experimenting with an aesthetic way of doing so.

020 3108 2052 | zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk


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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.

J. Martin 0208 686 7865 H.Pike 0207 679 4138 | jacinth.martin@csep.org.uk or h.pike@ucl.ac.uk


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SCULPTURE SEASON

Date: 5 June - 31 August | Time: 1-5pm | Location: Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, University College London, University Street, WC1E 6DE | Price: Free | Age group: All |

Sculpture students from the Slade School of Fine Art at UCL have been invited to create works in response to the Museum’s collections. The brief is wide – they may place sculptures among the Museum’s own specimens, take over entire cabinets, or make other spatial interventions.
For more information read the blog about it: Sculpture Season opens blog
Or the news piece with pictures: Sculpture Season News and images

020 3108 2052 | zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk


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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.





0207 679 4138 | h.pike@ucl.ac.uk


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DIGITAL FRONTIERS

Date: 14 June - 20 December | Time: 9am-5pm | Location: Octagon Gallery | Price: Free | Age group: Any |

Smart, Connected and Participatory explores how emerging technologies are changing the way we access and experience culture and asks questions about the nature of art and technology. New digital applications are shaping our daily lives; the way we live, work, and study, but is digital technology really new? Digital Frontiers unravels digital culture, illustrates the power of emerging applications and poses questions about technology and culture in the past and in the present.

020 7679 3163 | sussanah.chan@ucl.ac.uk


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HISTORY OF BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE EXHIBITION

Date: 2 July - 22 July 2013 | Time: 10am-8pm | Location: North Cloisters, Wilkins Building | Price: Free | Age group: Any |

Visit this FREE exhibition to see unique deafness and sign language-related material. Rare books and pamphlets, early films which show the origins of sign language in Britain
• Find out about the earliest sources of sign language.
• Learn about the history of fingerspelling and the beginnings of Deaf education.
• How BSL evolved in the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Find out which sign languages are related to BSL.

207 679 8682 | m.patrick@ucl.ac.uk


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POP-UP DISPLAY: SCULPTURAL MOBILITIES

Date: 3 July | Time: 1-5pm | Location: UCL Art Museum, South Cloisters, University College London, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: All |

Join us for a pop-up exhibition devised in tandem with the Sculptural Mobilities, a one-day symposium organised by the department of Scandinavian Studies about the cultural mobility of sculptural artworks.
Come by and see unique works that present the stories of exchanges between the art of the Nordic Countries and Europe.
Pop-in between 1-5pm to find out. Free, no booking required.

02076792540 | college.art@ucl.ac.uk


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POP-UP DISPLAY: 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE CHOSHU FIVE

Date: 4 July | Time: 1-5pm | Location: UCL Art Museum, South Cloisters, University College London, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: All |

Join us for a pop-up display combining Japanese woodblock prints and items from UCL's Special Collections to mark the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Choshu Five.
Five young noble men from the Choshu Clan left Japan during the turbulent times of the 1860s and came to study at UCL. On their return to Japan they went on to form the core of a new government. Included amongst them was Ito Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of modern day Japan, and father of the Japanese Constitution.

Pop-in between 1-5pm to find out. Free, no booking required.
This event is generously supported by the Jardine Matheson Group.

02076792540 | college.art@ucl.ac.uk


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THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) ON THE BIG SCREEN

Date: 4 July | Time: 6:30-9pm | Location: J.Z. Young Theatre, Anatomy Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: Adults |

Working on a remote island in a secret scientific facility Dr. Radford Baines is attempting to solve world hunger, his solution, to shrink people to half the size. His work has unintended consequences as a group of visitors to the island discover, giant shrews with a taste for human flesh! Will this intrepid group of explorers escape the island with their lives?
Historian of Biology and film-buff Professor Joe Cain (UCL Science and Technology Studies) will introduce what promises to a classic film night film. The film is followed by a free drinks reception in a private view of the Museum. This event is free and there is no need to book.

020 3108 2052 | d.veall@ucl.ac.uk


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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.

0207 679 4138 | h.pike@ucl.ac.uk


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SHOW 'N' TELL: ZIEGLER WAX MODELS

Date: 18 July | Time: 1-2pm | Location: Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, University College London, University Street, WC1E 6DE | Price: Free | Age group: All |

Show’N’Tell, that great American tradition, is coming to the Grant Museum of Zoology. We have invited the people who work and research here at UCL to showcase an object from the Museum’s collection and tell you what they know about it. For our very first Show’N’Tell Dr. Brendan Clarke from the Department of Science and Technology Studies will be presenting our fascinating wax model collection. So join us for a lunchtime and discover the stories hidden away in our collection. This event is free and there is no need to book.

020 3108 2052 | d.veall@ucl.ac.uk


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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.

0207 679 4138 | h.pike@ucl.ac.uk


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RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

Date: 30 July - 3 August | Time: 1-5pm | Location: Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, University College London, University Street, WC1E 6DE | Price: Free | Age group: All |

The tropical rainforests of the world are full of beautiful and bizarre animals. We are starting the summer holidays with a trip into the jungle to uncover the animals that make the jungle their home. Bring along your brave explorer and discover exactly who is swinging in the trees, rustling in the undergrowth and soaring on the breeze. Join us to take part in fun hands-on specimen based activities. This event is free and there is no need to book. Drop in between 1pm and 5pm.

020 3108 2052 | d.veall@ucl.ac.uk