Public Notice: Museum Events 28/05 - 02/06

Tuesday 28th May 

6.30pm

'Framing the View: Artists’ Talk' @ Tate Britain

Cost £9

Wednesday 29th May 

5.30pm

Biology, genetics and Blood Groups at the Royal Anthropological Institute 1930-1956 @ RAI

Free

From 6.30pm

'Lates: Sexuality' @ Science Museum 

Free entry

6.30pm

'The Pathologists' Hunt for the Hidden Killer' @ Old Operating Theatre.

Free with Museum Admission (£6.20)

Thursday 30th May

From 6pm

Late Shift @ National Portrait Gallery.

Friday 31st May

From 4pm

'Gin Garden pop-up' @ Chelsea Physic Garden

Free with admission (£9)

From 6.30pm 

'Lates with MasterCard' @ Natural History Museum 

Free entry

From 6.30pm

'Friday Late: White Nights' @ V& A 

Free entry

6.30pm

'Lecture  New discoveries at Herculaneum' @ British Museum 

Cost £5

6.30pm

'Obama's Second Term: Power, Progress and the Partisan Divide' @ British Library

Cost £7.50

7.30pm

'William Darymple' @ Southbank Centre

Cost £10 

Saturday 1st June

2pm

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

Cost £12

2pm

'Performance  'Disaster in the loveliest of lands': readings from Pompeii and Herculaneum' @ British Museum

2pm

'Picturing Psychosis: the Guttmann-Maclay Art Collection at the Bethlem Museum' @ Bethlem Museum and Archive

5.30pm

'Midnight Apothecary' @ Brunel Museum

Free entry

Sunday 2nd June

12.30pm

'Foundling Walks - The Poor, The Wise And The Fortunate' @ Foundling Museum

Cost £10

Public Notice Museum Events 20th May - 27th May

Monday 20th May

6.30pm

'Lucy Worsley - Fit to Rule: how royal illness changed history ' @ Banqueting House

Cost £18

6.30pm

'State Propaganda behind the Iron Curtain' @ British Library 

Cost £7.50

7.30pm

'An Evening with Sebastião Salgado' @ Natural History Museum

Cost £30

Tuesday 21st May

6.30pm

Lucy Worsley: An Intimate History of the Home @ V & A

Cost £9

6.30pm

'The 2013 Porter Lecture: The Rise and Fall of the French Smile: Dentistry and Sensibility in Eighteenth Century France ' @ Wellcome Collection

Free

7pm

'Crime and Neurotechnology' @ Dana Centre

Free

7pm

'Ulf Nordjfell Lecture' @ Garden Museum

Cost £15

Wednesday 22nd May

3.30pm

'Inspired by...Maps' @British Library

Cost £7.50

3.30pm

'Poor Soul' @ Florence Nightingale Museum

Cost £8

5.30pm

'Anthropology, sociology and the ethnography of British India, c. 1870-1947' @ RAI

Free

6pm

'Special Evening Event: The City Gardener' @Geffrye Museum

Cost £10

6pm

'Special Evening Event: The City Gardener' @ Guildhall Library 

£5

6.30pm

'Simon Starling in conversation with Janet Harbord' @ Tate Britain

Cost £6

6.30pm

'The Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library: Safeguarding Britain's Horticultural Heritage' @ Gresham College, Museum of London

Free

From 7pm

Sexuality Lates @ Science Museum

Free Entry

7pm

'Local Energy - Local Revolution?' @ Dana Centre

Free

Thursday 23rd May 

3pm

Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Wellcome Library @Wellcome Collection

Free

6pm

'The next Big Question- "Do we need to worry about air pollution?"  ' @ Centre of the Cell 

Free

6pm

'Status, Luxury and Celebrity - Ancient Egypt through a night of perfume exploration' @ Petrie Museum 

Free but prebook

7.30pm

'Exhibition Tour George Catlin: American Indian Portraits' @ National Portrait Gallery

Friday 24th May 

From 6pm

'After Hours Lates' @ Natural History Museum

Free

6.30pm

'Indian Arrival Day' @ V & A

Free

6.30pm

'Lecture  Bodies of Pompeii and Herculaneum' @ British Museum 

Cost £5

6.30pm

'Propaganda and Politics in the Modern Age' @ British Library 

Cost £7.50

Saturday 25th May 

1pm

'Gallery talk  Three great collectors: Hans Sloane, Joseph Banks and Charles Townley' @ British Museum

Free

2pm

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

Cost £12

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.

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