Family Event: Customise Your Amulet with Francesca

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology invites you to join artist Francesca Chinnery and make your own unique amulet to take home.

Amulets were believed to hold a special purpose in protecting the bearer's health by keeping harmful forces and spirits at bay. Used for health and healing throughout many kingdoms and eras of ancient Egypt, amulet designs changed through time, influenced by contemporary trends in animals, symbols, materials and colours.

Discuss how children and adults, of varying wealth and status backgrounds, would have had different forms of access to these protective objects and what that may have meant for them. The workshop will be working with air-dry clay.

This workshop is part of UCL Museums & Cultural Programmes 2023-24 event series Architecting Futures from Past Traces, bringing together art, culture and research.

Audience

This is an intergenerational workshop, suitable for all ages and abilities. Everyone is welcome but young children will need adult help.

Booking

This event comprises of three bookable sessions. Tickets go live at 12:00 on Friday 3 May 2024 via our Eventbrite page.

• 11:00-11:45
• 12:00-12:45
• 13:00-13:45

Access

There is step free access to the Petrie Museum via the lift in the UCL Science Library to the left of the Museum's main entrance. Further information about access at the Museum can be found here.

Finding us

The Museum is located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of central London. The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Victoria Line), and buses 18, 30, 73, 134 and 205 stop 3-5 minutes away on Euston Road.

Here's the location on Google to help you find your preferred route.