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Object-based Learning workshop and book launch

15 October 2025, 2:30 pm–7:00 pm

Object Based Learning book cover, Thomas Kador.

Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Thomas Kador

Location

IAS Common Ground
G11, ground floor, South Wing
UCL, Gower St, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

To mark the publication of Thomas Kador’s Object-based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education, we are hosting an Object-based Learning (OBL) workshop followed by a reception and book launch.

The workshop will take place at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, and provides an opportunity to encounter and explore some of the objects that are featured in the book as well as a range of other OBL activities.

This will be followed by a reception and (slightly more) formal book launch at the Grant Museum of Zoology, introduced by Professor Helen Chatterjee.

While this book will be freely downloadable from early September (via the link below), paper copies will be available for purchase on the day. https://uclpress.co.uk/book/object-based-learning/

Schedule

2.30-4.30pm: OBL workshop at the IAS (and the UCL Art Museum), ground floor, South Wing
Explore some of the objects discussed in the book and participate in a range of object-based activities, facilitated by the book’s author and colleagues from UCL Museums and Collections. 

5.45pm: Book launch and wine reception at the Grant Museum of Zoology
Enjoy a glass of wine, beer or non-alcoholic alternative, meet some more of the specimens discussed in the book and join some conversations about the book in the surroundings of UCL’s recently refurbished Grant Museum.