Thursday 16 October 2014

Halloween at the British Museum





The British Museum has a series of events and exhibitions for Halloween. With a museum full of witches, mummies and a viewing of Night at the Museum, now is the perfect time for a spooky visit to this London landmark
Events and exhibitions:

Ancient lives: new discoveries
22 May 2014 – 19 April 2015, sponsored by Julius Bäer. Technology partner Samsung

Thousands of years after their deaths the mummies at the British Museum are revealing their secrets.

Using state-of-the-art technology, this ground-breaking interactive exhibition allows visitors to virtually explore inside 8 mummy cases and examine the bodies underneath the wrappings. The exhibition unlocks hidden secrets to build up a picture of their lives in the Nile Valley over a remarkable 4,000 years – from prehistoric Egypt to Christian Sudan. Unravel the mysteries of mummification and gain a unique insight into these people’s lives as you come face to face with people who lived in the Nile Valley thousands of years ago.

The British Museum is pleased to announce the extension of this exhibition, which will now run until 19 April 2015.

Witches and wicked bodies
25 September 2014 – 11 January 2015

Efforts to understand and interpret seemingly malevolent deeds – as well as apportion blame for them and elicit confessions through hideous acts of torture – have had a place in society since classical antiquity and Biblical times.
This exhibition examines the portrayal of witches and witchcraft in art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. It features prints and drawings by artists including Dürer, Goya, Delacroix, Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, alongside classical Greek vessels and Renaissance maiolica.

Night at the Museum (Certificate PG)
Saturday 18 October, 14.30- 16.30

On the first day of Half-term, join us for this fun film that follows a night guard at the Museum of Natural History in New York (Ben Stiller) who, on his very first night at work, begins to see the exhibits come to life…

Free to watch in the British Museum’s Stevenson Lecture Theatre.


Curator’s Introduction to Ancient lives, new discoveries
Thursday 30 October, 13.30-14.30, BP Lecture Theatre

Daniel Antoine, Curator of Physical Anthropology at the British Museum, will give an illustrated introduction to this exhibition which looks in detail at the lives of eight people from ancient Egypt and Sudan whose bodies have been preserved, either naturally or by deliberate embalming.