Public Notice Museum Events 29/04 - 05/05

London is offering you Museum Geeks some great events this week! Want to know where and when? Well here at The Ministry of Curiosity we have compiled a handy list - Aren't we lovely?

 So pin it, tweet it, eat it, do it, smell it but don't lick it.

Monday 29th April 

From 12pm

Sketchbreak @ Design Museum

6.30pm

Myths and Realities 18: Work to live or live to work? @ British Library

Cost £7.50

Wednesday 1st May 

6.30pm 

'Peer to Platform: Artist Collective vs. Social Network' @ ICA

Cost £10

Thursday 2nd May 

6.30pm 

Life in Colour: An evening with Kaffe Fassett ‘Glorious Colour @ Fashion and Textiles Museum 

Cost £25

6.30pm

Quartermass and the Pitt (1967) on the big screen @ Grant Museum 

Free but book with Eventbrite 

7pm

In Conversation On Man Ray @ National Portrait Gallery 

Cost £6

7pm 

'Thursday Late: John Peacock on Van Dyck and Henrietta Maria' @ The Queens House, National Maritime Museum 

7.30pm

'Gallery Talk: Queer Perspectives' @ National Portrait Gallery

Free

Friday 3rd May 

6.30pm

Lecture  Vesuvius: a volcano, its history and legacy @ British Museum

Saturday 4th May 

1pm

Excavating the ancient sewers of Herculaneum @ British Museum

Free but prebook tickets

1pm

'Film: 'The Legend of the Holy Drinker'' @ National Gallery 

Cost £6

2pm

Timekeeper Workshop: Alternative CV writing @ Petrie Museum

Free but book with eventbrite.

Public Notice: Museum Events 22/04 - 28/04

London is offering you Museum Geeks some great events this week! Want to know where and when? Well here at The Ministry of Curiosity we have compiled a handy list - Aren't we lovely?

 So pin it, tweet it, eat it, do it, smell it but don't lick it.

Monday 22nd April

6.30pm @ Tate Britain 'Adam Chodzko: Ooze' Cost £9

6.30pm @ Tate Britain 'Sarah Pucill: Magic Mirror' Cost £5

7pm @ Museum of London 'Stephen Lawrence Poetry Event' Cost £4

Tuesday 23rd April

6.30pm @ Garden Museum 'Bloom and Bust Trends in Floristry' Cost £10

6.30pm @ London Transport Museum 'Panel Discussion: In the Frame - Stories behind the posters' Cost £15

7pm @ Horniman Museum 'Tea Drinking Along the Silk Road' Free Event

7pm @ The Churchill War Rooms 'The Roar of the Lion' Cost £17

Wednesday 24th April 

5pm @ RAI 'Rider Haggard, RLS, Hardy, Kipling, and other movers of the late nineteenth-century anthropological avant-garde' Free Event 

7pm @ Science Museum 'Climate Science' Lates

Thursday 25th April

3.30pm @ The Queens House, National Maritime Museum 'Guided Tours of 'The Garden of England' Free Event

6pm @ Petrie Museum 'Timekeeper Workshop: Modelling time with material expert Zoe Laughlin' Free but book with Eventbrite

6.30pm @ Florence Nightingale Museum 'Contagion in the Workhouse' Cost £8

6.30pm @ National Maritime Museum 'Treasures of the Caird Library: Maps and Atlases' Free but prebook

7pm @ Wellcome Collection 'Insects au Gratin workshop'

7pm @ National Maritime Museum 'Thursday Lates: Ravilious: Submarine' Free but pre book.

7pm @ Dr Johnson's House 'Chocolate in Georgian London: A talk and tasting with Jennifer Earle' Cost £10

7pm @ National Portrait Gallery 'Exhibition Tour: Man Ray Portraits' Free with exhibition ticket

7.30pm @ Cinema Museum 'Multi-lingual Film Production in the Early 1930s + Early To Bed (Berger, 1932)' Cost £10

Friday 26th April

From 6pm @ Natural History Museum 'After Hours Lates' Free event

From 6.30pm @ V & A 'Friday Late: David Bowie Is Making a Scene' 

6.30pm @ British Museum 'Pompeii: an introduction' Cost £5

Saturday 27th April

10am @ Museum of London 'A history of coffee, tea and sugar in London' Cost £12

11am - 5pm @ South London Gallery 'Slow Art Day' Free

11am @ V & A  'The Art of Criticism' Cost £9

12.30pm @ Natural History Museum 'Under the Caribbean Sea - Revisited' Free Event

7.30pm @ Cinema Museum 'An Evening with William Russell' Cost £10

Sunday 28th April

2pm @ Royal Observatory, Greenwich 'Anvilled Stars: the Meteoritic Mirrors of Matthew Luck Galpin' Free Event 

2.30pm @ The Cinema Museum 'The Girl Can’t Help It' Cost £10

3pm @ National Portrait Gallery 'Gallery Talk: Bassano: Victorian Photographer' Free Event.

Public Notice: Museum Events. 15/04 - 21/04

London is offering you Museum Geeks some great events this week! Want to know where and when? Well here at The Ministry of Curiosity we have compiled a handy list - Aren't we lovely?

 So pin it, tweet it, eat it, do it, smell it but don't lick it.

Monday 15th April

6pm

Debating Modern British Childhood ' V & A Museum of Childhood

6.30pm

'Architecture and Art: If you build it, will they come?' @ Tate Modern 

Cost £12

Tuesday 16th April

6pm

'Tony Benn and the Idea of Participation' @ Gresham College, Museum of London

Free

Wednesday 17th April 

5.30pm

'The Ecological Context for Early Human Evolution in East Africa' @ RAI

Free event

6pm

'The Land of the Pharaohs' @ Petrie Museum

Free but prebook with Eventbrite

6.30pm

'The Trouble with Artist Collectives' @ ICA 

Cost £10

6.30pm

'Agnes Martin: Arne Glimcher in conversation with Frances Morris' @ Tate Modern 

Cost £12

7.30pm

'Raymond (Ray) Austin in Conversation' @ Cinema Museum 

Cost £10

7.30pm

'The Huguenots of Spitalfields Festival:Disappearing Spitalfields' @ Bishopsgate Institute 

Cost £8

Thursday 18th April 

6pm

'Timekeeping Workshop: Mapping Time with Memory'  @ Petrie Museum

Free Event but prebook with Eventbrite

6.30pm

'David Bowie Changed my Life …' @ V&A 

Cost £10

7pm

'Film Movement in Light: A Contemporary Expression' @ National Portrait Gallery

Free Event

7.30pm

'Gallery Talk: A handbook of modern life' @National Portrait Gallery

Free Event 

Friday 19th April

6.30pm

'Late Shift' @ National Portrait Gallery

 6.30pm

'Dancing About Sculpture: Part of Alchemy' @ Southbank Centre

Free

6.30pm

Film:  Up Pompeii! @ British Museum

Cost £3

7pm

'A Witty Blend' @ V&A

Saturday 20th April

10am 

'The Yellow Claw/White Cargo + rarities' @ Cinema Museum

Cost £10

From 11am

'St George's Day Event' @ V&A Museum of Childhood

Free Event

From 1pm

'SIDI GOMA DHAMAL ENSEMBLE Performance: Folk Dance and Music from Western India  Part of Alchemy' @ Southbank Centre

Free Event

2.30pm

'Secret Insects of Bloomsbury' @ Wellcome Collection

Sunday 21st April 

2pm

'Exhibition Talk: Stands Alone' @ Geffyre Museum

Free with exhibition ticket

2pm

Discussion:'Work like this' @ Tate Modern

Free

2pm

Film 'Ghosts (2006)' @ Museum of London Docklands

Free

5pm

Film 'Berwick Street Collective: Nightcleaners (Part 1)' @ Tate Modern

Cost £5

5.30pm

Film: 'SKATEISTAN Part of Alchemy' @ Southbank Centre

Free

Public Notice: Museum Events. 08/04 - 14/04

London is offering you Museum Geeks some great events this week! Want to know where and when? Well here at The Ministry of Curiosity we have compiled a handy list - Aren't we lovely?

 So pin it, tweet it, eat it, do it, smell it but don't lick it.

Monday 8th April 

From 12pm

Sketch Break @ Design Museum 

on Twitter and Facebook

1pm

Packed Lunch: Navigating the City. @ Wellcome Collection

Free

2.30pm

Walking Tour: The Grey Soul of London  @ Barbican 

£5

7.30pm

Beautiful Tufti @ Royal Anthropological Institute.

Free 

7pm

Night Safari @ Natural History Museum 

Cost £28

Tuesday 9th April 

1pm

Packed Lunch: Body Clocks @ Wellcome Collection

Free

6.30pm

Boy George: David Bowie Style @ V&A

Cost £7

7pm

'I'm a Neuroscientist Get Me Out of Here' @ Barbican 

Cost £5

7pm

The Edible Art Class with AVM Curiosities @ The Book Club 

Cost £10

Wednesday 10th April

1pm

Packed Lunch: Gambling @ Wellcome Collection

Free

7pm

'The Huguenots of Spitalfields Festival: Ireland as Paradise' @ Bishopsgate institute

Cost £7

Thursday 11th April 

7pm 

Lecture: Man Ray the Magic Man @ National Portrait Gallery 

cost £6

Friday 12th April 

6.30pm

Late Shift  National Portrait Gallery 

6.30pm

'Un cut with Catherine Horwood, Sarah Whittingham and Ken Martin' @ Garden Museum

Cost £20

6.30pm

Film Double Bill: 'The Caves of Lascaux/Days Long Gone' @ British Museum 

6.30pm

V&A Connects 'Fashion Promotion and Communication' 

Free 

6.30pm

'George Clark: Restoration Man' 

Cost £7

7pm

'Film Movement in Light: Pure Figures in Motion' @ National Portrait Gallery

Free

Saturday 13th April 

11am

'Freemasons and Ancient Egypt at Kensal Green Cemetry' with Petrie Museum UCL

Cost £7

11am 

'We Love Steam: Open Weekend' @ London Transport Museum Depot

Cost £10

11.30am 

'Dutch Genre Painting' @ Wallace Collection

Free

1pm

'Drawing Nature 20,000 - 10,000 years ago' @ British Museum

Free

5pm

Midnight Apothecary @ Brunel Museum 

£3 entry and bar open 

5.30pm

'Talk and Concert: Genetic Science and Music' @ National Maritime Museum 

Free

Sunday 14th April 

11am 

The Old Jewish East End Walk @ The Jewish Museum

Cost £15

12pm

 Font Sunday @ Design Museum on Twitter 

2pm

'Homegrown Revolution: James Wong's Incredible Eats' @Chelsea Physics Garden 

Cost £25