What's On at UCL Museums & Collections
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BURIED ON CAMPUS Date: 23 April–13 July | Time: 1-5pm Mon-Fri | Location: Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, University College London, University Street, WC1E 6DE | Price: Free. There is no need to book | Age group: All | A huge mass of human bones was discovered in UCL during construction work in 2010. This installation displays the investigations undertaken to discover what they are and why they were buried. Remains of at least 84 individual people and many animals have been identified. Uncover where they came from and what we can learn from them in this unusual exhibition co-curated by UCL forensic anatomists and osteologists.
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SILLY SEASON Date: May - July 2012 | Time: Various | Location: Grant Museum of Zoology | Price: Free | Age group: Any | We take our science very seriously at the Grant Museum, but just because we’re talking about proper zoology doesn’t mean that we can’t have some fun with it. In news and politics summer is known as “Silly Season” – something we are embracing with an eclectic mix of unusual events. Join us this term as we enjoy exploring the animal world and our collections through a panel game, film night, treasure hunt, hands-on activities and a curatorial show-and-tell.
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UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF ANCIENT EGYPT: AN AFRICAN CIVILISATION Date: Tues 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May & 12, 19, 26 June | Time: 6-8.30pm | Location: Petrie Museum | Price: £100 for 8 weeks Book via Jacinth Martin at CSEP on 0208 686 7865 or email jacinth.martin@csep.org.uk | Age group: Older teens / Adults | The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in partnership with Croydon Supplementary Education Project (CSEP) is pleased to announce the return of this evening short course. Robin Walker, author of seminal When We Ruled, will be teaching this fascinating eight session programme.
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13 AMULETS: BASKETRY PLUS Date: 1-31 May | Time: Museum Opening Times | Location: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology | Price: Free | Age group: Any | Basketry Plus is a group of artists and makers who share a common interest in and a passion for basketry. Our aim is to push the concept of basketmaking forward and to introduce the craft to a wider audience. Taking our inspiration from the many and varied objects in the Petrie’s collection, the thirteen members of Basketry Plus will each weave a piece of work that explores and re-interprets the amulet.
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VINCULA - 4TH ANNUAL SLADE/UCL ART MUSEUM COLLABORATION Date: 8 May - 8 June | Time: 1pm-5pm | Location: UCL Art Museum South Cloisters UCL Gower Street London WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: Any | The 4th annual Slade/UCL Art Museum collaboration began with an invitation to today's artists to develop their own practices while exploring and responding to art from the past. With the Museum's vast collections of award-winning works by Slade alumni as well as works by revered Old Masters situated only minutes away from the artists' studios, this collaboration presents a unique opportunity for a dialogue across time through which to explore new ideas. This exhibition features the work of selected finalists. Free admission.
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POP-UPS AT UCL ART MUSEUM: CREME DE LA CREME - VAN DYCK'S INNER CIRCLE Date: 22 May | Time: 1pm-2pm | Location: UCL Art Museum South Cloisters UCL Gower Street London WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: Any | Join artist Liz Rideal (UCL Slade School of Fine Art) in revisiting Van Dyck's etchings from his project Iconographia, portraits of his distinguished contemporaries. Van Dyck often completed the heads but left the rest to specialist engravers.
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POP-UPS AT UCL ART MUSEUM: MELISSA TERRAS PRESENTS Date: 29 May | Time: 1pm-2pm | Location: UCL Art Museum South Cloisters UCL Gower Street London WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: Any | Dr Melissa Terras (UCL Information Studies) joins the ranks of our pop-up curators, and looks at computer art.
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EXTREME ANIMALS HALF-TERM ACTIVITIES Date: 6-8 June | Time: Drop in 1-5pm | Location: Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, University College London, University Street, WC1E 6DE | Price: Free. There is no need to book | Age group: Families, but the Museum is suitable for all | Come and meet some of the biggest, smallest, heaviest, lightest, strongest, cutest, ugliest, weirdest and wildest animals in the Grant Museum. Through our free hands-on specimen-based activities explore some of the animal record-breakers for half-term.
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ROYALTY AND POWER IN ANCIENT EGYPT: HALF-TERM FAMILY ACTIVITIES Date: 6 & 7 June | Time: 2-4pm | Location: Petrie Museum | Price: Free - drop in! | Age group: Family & Children 7-11 | There were Diamond Jubilees in Ancient Egypt too. Find out about long serving Pharaohs in Egypt and emblems of royal power then make your own Egyptian crown. Drop in!
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CINEMATIC NECROPOLIS: EGYPT IN NE LONDON WALK Date: 16 June | Time: 11am - 12.30pm | Location: Essex Rd / Stoke Newington | Price: Free. Book via http://cinematicnecropolis.eventbrite.com/ | Age group: Any | Join us as we explore two 'Egyptian style' sites from different epochs in North East London. Starting with the exterior of the old Carlton Cinema (1930) on the Essex Road before we travel back (on public transport c. 30 min) almost 100 years to the gates of Abney Park Cemetery.
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FIT? Date: 19 June | Time: 6.30-7.30pm | Location: Petrie Museum | Price: Free | Age group: Any | Whose is better - the Ancient Greek or Ancient Egyptian sculpted body? Is there a difference? And why are the Ancient Greeks so linked to sports when the Egyptians did it first? Join Chris Naunton (EES) and Debbie Challis (Petrie, UCL) for a debate on these issues.
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THE VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969) ON THE BIG SCREEN Date: 20 June | Time: 6.30pm | Location: JZ Young Theatre, Anatomy Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free. There is no need to book | Age group: Adults | In this Ray Harryhausen classic, we see dinosaurs pitted against cowboys as circus-owners attempt to include prehistoric creatures in their Wild West show. Following the discovery of a living miniature horse – which turns out to be a 50 million year old relic – the team ventures into the cursed “Forbidden Valley”? Unsurprisingly, everything doesn’t go to plan. This was special-effects master Harryhausen’s final prehistoric masterpiece; you may recognise very similar scenes recreated in Jurassic Park. And the ending…unbelievable.
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IT CAME FROM THE STORES Date: 17 July | Time: 6.30pm | Location: JZ Young Theatre, Anatomy Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free. There is no need to book | Age group: Adults | Join Grant Museum Curator Mark Carnall as he performs an interactive show-and-tell with some of the more curious objects that he has uncovered in our storerooms.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL GHOST STORIES: MR JAMES Date: 19 July | Time: 6.30-8pm (Doors open at 6pm) | Location: Petrie Museum | Price: Free. Book via http://archaeologicalghosts.eventbrite.com/ | Age group: Any | Gabriel Moshenska (UCL) explores the archaeological uncanny in a talk on the writer M R James' little known involvement with archaeology and his more famous ghost stories. This will be a followed by a reading by Mark Hassall of James' 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.
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EGYPTIAN MAUSOLEUM: SW LONDON WALK Date: 21 July | Time: 10.30am - 1pm | Location: Mortlake / St Margarets | Price: £7 or £5 for Friends of the Petrie Museum or Friends of the Petrie Museum or Museum of Richmond | Age group: Any | Find out more about the Egyptian and Eastern inspired tombs of two eccentric Victorians in South West London / Surrey. Join us at Mortlake as we visit the tomb of the explorer Richard Burton and then follow us (on the train / public transport) to Kilmorey Mausoleum for a guided tour of this tomb and natural park.
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