Tuesday 7 May 2019

Grant Museum of Zoology - Wasps, skeletons and experimental encounters at the Grant Museum this summer

Come and experience Vigil, a wild and playful encounter with internationally threatened animals inspired by the Grant Museum's unique zoology collection.
  
Artist Tom Bailey performs a timely exploration of today’s mass animal disappearance in a poignant, artistic and often comic way.

Part of UCL's Performance Lab programme of experiments in art and science, Vigil has been created in collaboration with researchers from the university.

Vigil will take place Thu 6 Jun and Fri 7 Jun 2019, 18:30. Tickets are £5, booking essential. Click here to book your place.
Events and tours
Thu 9 May, 18:30. £5
Explore sculpture in all its forms with choreographer Siobhan Davies and artists Josephine Baker, Holly Hendry and Keef Winter.
Thu 23 May, 18:30. Free
Discover the science behind why you too should love (or at least appreciate) wasps in this year’s Grant Lecture with Dr Seirian Sumner.
Fridays 14:00-14:45
Curious about the natural world? Get to know your dodo from your quagga in this free 45 minute tour.
See the full programme on our website.
Free exhibition 
See Skullpture, a new exhibition of experimental artworks at the Grant Museum by students from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art.

Sculpture students have been invited to place works among the museum’s own weird and wonderful specimens, take over entire cabinets or use other voids and spaces in the building. 

These new works sit alongside historic skeletons, skulls and specimens preserved in jars to transform the historic zoological museum. 

Skullpture is at the Grant Museum 3 Jun 2019 – 7 Sep 2019, 13:00-17:00. Free. Open Monday - Saturday.
Plural Animal Wednesdays
You might have heard of a herd of sheep, a flock of birds and a swarm of insects - but how about a leap of leopards, a shrewedness of apes or a murmuration of starlings?