Public Notice: Museum Events 13th - 19th May

Monday 13th May 

1- 10pm

The Art of Reading: Drop-in and read with researchers @ UCL Art Museum

Free 

7pm

Film 'Babette's Feast (1987)' @Dulwich Picture Gallery 

Cost £9

Tuesday 14th May

7pm

'Eating Identities' @ Dana Centre

Free 

7pm

'Reflecting the Modern World: Art since the Second World War' @Dulwich Picture Gallery

Cost: £10

7pm

'Museums Showoff' @ The Black Heart, 3 Greenland Place, NW1 0AP

Free but donation of £5 for charity.

Wednesday 15th May

5pm

'How can things make historians think differently?' @Senate House with Institute of Historical Research 

Free

5pm

'What was the public interest in seventeenth-century England?' @ Senate House with Insitute of Historical Research 

Free

5.30pm

'The Seligman Error: mental illness and social anthropology' @ Royal Anthropological Institute 

Free

7pm

'Slyvia Pankhurst - Suffragette, Socialist and Scouge of Empire' @ Bishopsgate Institute

Cost: £2

7pm

'The Flower at the Top of the World' @ Dana Centre 

Cost: £2

Thursday 16th May

5pm

'Mystical Bedlam: Spiritualists and Spook-Spotters' @ Bethlem Royal Hospital Museum

Free

5pm

'SciFi Film Night' @ Royal Observatory

Cost: £7

5.30pm

'Insects vs Humans' @ Wellcome Collection

Free

6pm

'Museums at Night – The Horniman Garden Party' @ Horniman 

Cost: £3

6pm

'LMA Film Club' @ London Metropolitan Archive

Free

6pm

'Gresham College Lecture: The City of London in Literature: Place, People, and Pursuits' @ Guildhall Library

Free 

6pm

Museums At Night, Visiting the Stores @ British Postal Museum and Archive

Free

6pm

'Tomb Raiders' @ UCL Petrie Museum

Free

7.30pm

'Exhibition Tour: Bracelets, Berets and Bow Ties' @ National Portrait Gallery 

Free with admission ticket

7.30pm

'Past Time & Tipple - Stuffed Stuff and Curiosities from the Epping Forest Collection' 

@ Epping Forest: The View

Cost: £10

Friday 17th May

1 - 2pm
'Ask a Curator' Tweet your questions to @RCSNews to find out more about the Hunterian Museum

6pm

'Late Shift Extra: Edgar Heap of Birds' @ National Portrait Gallery

Free

6pm

'Museums at Night' @ Fashion and Textiles Museum

Cost: £8

6.30pm

'Archaeological Archive by twilight' @ Museum of London

Cost: £7

6.30pm

'Friday Late - Brightest London' @ London Transport Museum

Cost: £8

6.30pm

'Gavin Turk and Iain Sinclair' @ V & A

Cost £9

6.30pm

'How to read a Latin poem' @ British Museum

Cost: £6

6.30pm

'It's Elemental - UCL Museums Treasure Hunt' @ UCL

Free 

6.30pm

'Keats House Museum at Night' @ Keats House

 Cost £6

7pm

'The Nose' @ Wellcome Collection

Free

9pm

'Museums at Night at The Foundling' @ Foundling Museum

Free with Museum Admission

Saturday 18th May

2pm

Highlights Tour: around the world in 90 minutes @ British Museum

Cost: £12

3pm

'Reading Byron, (Re)writing Byron: A Feminist Literary Legacy' @ Keats House

Free with admission ticket

6pm

Museums at Night – Late Night Historical Experience @ Benjamin Frankin House 

Cost: £6

7pm

'Cockles & Mussels @ Late' @ Museum of London, Docklands

Cost: £7

Sunday 19th May

2.30pm

'The Thing Is... Citizen Science' @ Wellcome Collection

Free

6.30pm

'Beetle Bingo' @ Grant Museum, UCL

Teams of up to five, free to enter but prebook.