What's On at UCL Museums & Collections
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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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.
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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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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.
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