Events at the British Museum
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| Date | Time | Title | Audience | Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 9 February | 13.15 | Introduction to Grayson Perry The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman (Fully booked) | Lecture | Free |
| 13.15 | Music in Chinese art | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Friday 10 February | 13.15 | Renaissance to Rococo in 3 easy steps | Gallery talk | Free |
| 13.15 | Britons on Hajj before 1940 (Fully booked) | Lecture | Free | |
| 14.00 & 15.00 | The Way of Tea | Demonstration | Free | |
| 18.30 | Malcolm X | Film | £ | |
| Saturday 11 February | 11.30–15.30 | Green screen time machine | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | War and agriculture in ancient Mexico | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Sunday 12 February | 11.00 & 14.00 | Mega-mummy animation workshop (Fully booked) | Family activity | Free |
| Monday 13 February | 11.00–16.00 | Arabian encounters | Family activity | Free |
| Tuesday 14 February | 11.00–16.00 | Arabian encounters | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | The human form in ancient Cyprus | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Wednesday 15 February | 11.00–16.00 | Arabian encounters | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | Scientific insight into the origins of two crystal skulls | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Thursday 16 February | 11.00–16.00 | Arabian encounters | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | The 2012 Olympic medals (S) | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Friday 17 February | 11.00–16.00 | Arabian encounters | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | Court life in imperial China | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 18.30 | Lawrence of Arabia | Film | £ | |
| 18.30 | The transformation of the Mycenaean world | Lecture | Free | |
| Saturday 18 February | 13.15 | Hajj: curators' introduction | Lecture | Free |
| 10.30–16.30 | Open University study day: the Renaissance reconsidered | Study day | £ | |
| 11.30–15.30 | Passport to the afterlife | Family activity | Free | |
| 13.15 | Pattern and colour in Iznik ceramics | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Sunday 19 February | 11.30–15.30 | Create a comic | Family activity | Free |
| Tuesday 21 February | 13.15 | Time on your hands: a history of the watch | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 22 February | 13.15 | Transformation and shape-shifting in Native North American art | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 23 February | 13.15 | German Romantic prints: defining a new national identity | Gallery talk | Free |
| Friday 24 February | 13.15 | 3,500 years of British treasure | Gallery talk | Free |
| 14.00 & 15.00 | The Way of Tea | Demonstration | Free | |
| 14.00–17.00 | Printmaking: monotypes | Study day | £ | |
| 18.30 | Hajj and the future of Islam | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 25 February | 11.00 & 14.30 | Digital music workshop | 13–18 event | Free |
| 11.30–15.30 | Create a comic | Family activity | Free | |
| 13.15 | Rock crystal and other stone vessels for the princely Kunstkammer | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 13.30 | Journeys to Mecca: archive film afternoon | Film | £ | |
| Sunday 26 February | 11.30–15.30 | Digital discovery activities | Family activity | Free |
| Tuesday 28 February | 13.15 | Korean ceramics and metalwares | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 29 February | 13.15 | Women’s arts of the North American Indians | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 1 March | 13.15 | Hajj: curators' introduction (S) | Lecture | Free |
| 13.15 | From Palestine to the world: manufacture and migration among the Christians of Bethlehem | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Friday 2 March | 13.15 | The archaeology and material culture of Hajj in sub-Saharan Africa | Lecture | Free |
| 13.15 | The cost of living in Roman and modern Britain | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 18.30 | Rome and the Sword | Lecture | £ | |
| 18.30 | Neal Ascherson: Europe | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 3 March | 10.30–17.00 | Manuscript illustration and pigments workshop | Workshop | £ |
| 10.30–17.30 | City Lit Classics Day | Study day | £ | |
| 11.30–15.30 | Passport to the afterlife | Family activity | Free | |
| 13.15 | The funerary temple of Amenhotep III | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 14.00 | Lord Jim | Film | £ | |
| Sunday 4 March | 11.00 & 14.00 | Medieval animation workshop | Family activity | Free |
| Tuesday 6 March | 13.15 | Slowing down the damage: preventative conservation at the British Museum | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 7 March | 13.15 | Aspects of Roman art | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 8 March | 13.15 | Bejewelling the male body in the renaissance | Gallery talk | Free |
| 18.30 | Michal Rovner in conversation | Discussion | £ | |
| Friday 9 March | 13.15 | Merchants, monks, explorers: life along the ancient Silk Road | Gallery talk | Free |
| 14.00 & 15.00 | The Way of Tea | Demonstration | Free | |
| 15.00–17.00 | Poetry writing workshop: journeys of the heart | Workshop | Free | |
| 18.00–21.00 | Late: Journey to the heart of Islam | Late | Free | |
| 18.30 | Marx at 193 | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 10 March | 10.30–17.00 | Hajj: a journey of faith | Study day | £ |
| 11.30–15.30 | Olympic Champions! | Family activity | Free | |
| 13.15 | The Romans who shaped Britain | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Sunday 11 March | 11.00–16.00 | Horror movie workshop | 13–18 event | Free |
| 11.30–15.30 | Create a comic | Family activity | Free | |
| Monday 12 March | 11.00–15.00 | Museum studies day | Study day | £ |
| Tuesday 13 March | 13.15 | Olive oil processing in the ancient Levant | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 14 March | 13.15 | Pattern and purpose in Anglo-Saxon and Viking swords | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 15 March | 13.15 | Printmaking around 1800: the spectacular etchings of Carl Wilhelm Kolbe | Gallery talk | Free |
| Friday 16 March | 13.15 | Jerusalem the golden: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre models | Gallery talk | Free |
| 18.30 | The Magnetism of Mecca | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 17 March | 11.00–16.00 | Zoom in: a closer look at science | Workshop | Free |
| 11.30–15.30 | Digital photography day | Family activity | Free | |
| 13.15 | Arabic and arabesques: themes in Islamic art | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 14.00 | Roads to Mecca | Film | Free | |
| 17.00 | Andean royal tunics and the Inca calendar | Lecture | £ | |
| Sunday 18 March | 11.00 & 14.00 | Mega-mummy animation workshop | Family activity | Free |
| Monday 19 March | 18.15-21.00 | Members' open evening | Member event | M |
| Tuesday 20 March | 13.15 | Dress, adornment and identity in Roman Britain | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 21 March | 13.15 | A taste for the Middle East in 19th century Europe | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 22 March | 13.15 | Crossroads, cross cultures: representations of trade in Africa | Gallery talk | Free |
| TBC | Conference: The Hajj | Conference | £ | |
| Friday 23 March | TBC | Conference: The Hajj | Conference | £ |
| 13.15 | The Assyrian lionhunt reliefs | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 14.00 & 15.00 | The Way of Tea | Demonstration | Free | |
| 14.00 – 17.00 | Printmaking: monotypes | Workshop | £ | |
| 18.30 | Hajj among pilgrimages | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 24 March | TBC | Conference: The Hajj | Conference | £ |
| 11.30 – 15.30 | Green screen time machine | Family activity | Free | |
| 13.15 | Kemet and Kush: exploring Egypt and Nubia in an African context | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Sunday 25 March | 11.00 & 14.00 | Ceramic design workshop | Family activity | Free |
| Monday 26 March | 13.15 | One Thousand Roads to Mecca | Lecture | Free |
| Tuesday 27 March | 13.15 | Buddhist pilgrimage sites across South Asia | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 28 March | 13.15 | The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 29 March | 13.15 | Inspired: the influence of Islamic and Asian art in Europe | Gallery talk | Free |
| 18.00 | Pedro Paez and the first history of Ethiopia, 1620 | Seminar | £ | |
| Friday 30 March | 13.15 | Film: Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta | Film | Free |
| 13.15 | Temple and tomb: archaelogical treasures from Korea | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 18.30 | Marilyn Monroe | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 31 March | 10.30–16.30 | Open University study day: introducing religions | Study day | £ |
| 11.00 & 14.00 | Make a radio show: podcasting workshop | 13–18 event | Free | |
| 13.15 | The symbolism of lion and sphinxes in ancient Egypt | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 18.15–09.00 | Hajj sleepover | Young Friends | £ | |
| Sunday 1 April | 11.30–15.30 | Olympic Champions! | Family activity | Free |
| Tuesday 3 April | 13.15 | Death and burial in ancient Levant | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 4 April | 13.15 | Hajj art: young artists' work from Saudi Arabia | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 5 April | 13.15 | Women in the Enlightenment Gallery | Gallery talk | Free |
| Saturday 7 April | 11.30–15.30 | Magical mosaic masks | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | Greeks in Egypt | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Sunday 8 April | 11.00 & 14.00 | Mega-mummy animation workshop | Family activity | Free |
| Monday 9 April | 11.00 & 16.00 | Across the board | Family activity | Free |
| Tuesday 10 April | 11.00 & 16.00 | Across the board | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | India's sacred geography: pilgrimage in Hindu tradition | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Wednesday 11 April | 11.00 & 16.00 | Across the board | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | Secrets of smoothness: Islamic paper and its preparation | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Thursday 12 April | 11.00 & 16.00 | Across the board | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | Designing the London 2012 Paralympic Games medal (S) | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Friday 13 April | 11.00 & 16.00 | Across the board | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | The sculptures of the Parthenon | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 14.00 & 15.00 | The Way of Tea | Demonstration | Free | |
| 18.30 | Film: Le Grand voyage | Film | £ | |
| Saturday 14 April | 10.30–16.30 | Open University study day: from Enlightenment to Romanticism | Study day | £ |
| 11.00–13.00 & 14.30–17.00 | Manga comic workshop | 13–18 event | Free | |
| 13.15 | Hajj: curators' introduction | Lecture | Free | |
| 13.15 | Paper and books in ancient Mexico | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Sunday 15 April | 11.30–15.30 | Passport to the afterlife | Family activity | Free |
| Tuesday 17 April | 13.15 | Renaissance into Baroque: a stylistic journey | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 18 April | 13.15 | All that glitters is not gold: a closer look at Iron Age metalwork | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 19 April | 13.15 | Sand-buried ruins and ancient tracks: Aurel Stein's Silk Road | Gallery talk | Free |
| Friday 20 April | 13.15 | African textiles today | Gallery talk | Free |
| 13.15 | The Temple, the Holy Sepulchre, and the Noble Sanctuary: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem | Lecture | Free | |
| 18.00, 18.45 & 19.30 | The Gentlemen of Leisure present a cultural comedy gallery tour | Performamce | Free | |
| 18.30 | Anglo-saxon art: tradition and transformation | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 21 April | 11.30–15.30 | Digital photography day | Family activity | Free |
| 13.00–17.00 | The Art of Memory day | Study day | £ | |
| 13.15 | Egypt and the Levant: war and diplomacy in the Armana Letters | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Sunday 22 April | 11.00 & 14.00 | Medieval animation workshop | Family activity | Free |
| Monday 23 April | 18.30 | Members' lecture: Shakespeare | Member event | M |
| Tuesday 24 April | 13.15 | The Holy Sepulchre model: craftsmanship in miniature | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 25 April | 13.15 | Shakespeare and money | Gallery talk | Free |
| Thursday 26 April | 13.15 | Visiting the gods in ancient Cyprus | Gallery talk | Free |
| Friday 27 April | 13.15 | Looking at Korean art | Gallery talk | Free |
| 14.00 & 15.00 | The Way of Tea | Demonstration | Free | |
| 18.30 | Cracking the Egyptian code: the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 28 April | 11.30–15.30 | Magical mosaic masks | Family activity | Free |
| 13.15 | Hans Sloane and the influence of botany on 18th-century Chinese porcelain | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Sunday 29 April | 11.00 & 14.00 | Game design workshop | Family activity | Free |
| Saturday 12 May | 14.00–19.00 | From Olympia to London! | Young Friends | £ |
| Saturday 26 May | 10.00–17.00 | Stone carving (Sold out) | Workshop | £ |
| Thursday 7 June | 13.15 | At home with the Neanderthals: excavations at la Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey | Lecture | Free |
| Thursday 14 June | 13.15 | Virtual visitors: why would anyone want to visit the virtual British Museum collections online? | Lecture | Free |
| Saturday 23 June | 10.30–16.30 | The Olympic Games and sport across ancient cultures | Study day | £ |
| 13.15 | A book by any other name would smell as sweet | Lecture | Free | |
| Thursday 28 June | 13.15 | Discoveries and re-evaluations: painting practices under the microscope | Lecture | Free |
| Saturday 21 July | 10.00–17.00 | Stone carving | Workshop | £ |
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