What's On at UCL Museums & Collections

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

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

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