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Enhance your visit with downloadable resources
12th October 2020
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Enhance your visit to the UCL museums with these digital resources. Download them to your mobile device in advance on or on the day.
Grant Museum of Zoology
Museum guide: use this short guide to help you discover some of the most important aspects of the collection.
Displays of Power family activity: try our mystery specimen challenge to identify specimens from just a few features, and learn about their history along the way.
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Museum guide: use this short guide to help you discover some of the most important aspects of the collection.
Free Petrie Museum app: Get the most from your visit with including an in-depth guide to the collection, an audio-described tour and a the history of the museum and its founders. Click the link, or search for 'Petrie Museum' in the App Store or Google Play.
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Train and Engage funding call now open
31st Mar 2017
Funding calls are now open for the Public Engagement Unit’s Train and Engage programme.Now in its 6th year, the programme offers postgraduate students the chance to apply for grants of up to £1000 for activities that involve people outside the university.Alongside funding, Train & Engage provides advice, training and resources to support students in designing, developing, delivering and evaluating their own public engagement project.Previously funded projects have been diverse. From Dr David Roberts’ Haggerston Estate Open House Weekend to Dr Melissa Bovis’ How small are we talking. One involved a series of participatory events exploring urban change and social housing, while the other used a range of myth-busting games to examine concepts of nanotechnology and nano-scale. Dr Roberts built on his extensive engagement experience to organise a range of events and performance at the now demolished Haggerston Estate. Turning the traditional architectural tour of the London Open House Weekend on its head, he invited current residents and visitors to take part in telling the story of the estate. Ultimately offering an opportunity to reflect on the changing state of housing in London.Rural Wales formed a rather different backdrop for Dr Bovis’ interactive, games event. Using family-favourites such as ‘Noughts and Crosses’ and ‘Play Your Cards Right’ to demonstrate the size and scale of ‘nano’ to audience members at The Green Man Festival 2014. As well as challenging common misconceptions about what is and isn’t possible in the world of nanotechnology. As a result of the advice, experience and resources received through the Train and Engage programme both participants were able to take part in further public engagement events and to enhance their ability to embed public engagement in their work.Have you previously attended public engagement training at UCL and would like to run your own public engagement project? Find out how to apply here. The deadline for funding applications is Tuesday 2nd May 2017.If you have any questions about Train and Engage, contact publicengagement@ucl.ac.uk.
Call for exhibition and display proposals 2023-24
26th Apr 2023
The UCL Museums and Cultural Programmes team are seeking proposals from individuals, departments or groups across UCL for engaging exhibitions and displays, to be hosted in the Wilkins Building across the 2023-24 academic year.Exhibitions and display proposals should be rooted in the work of UCL, demonstrate relevance to an identified target audience and the wider UCL community, and take a topical, collaborative and multidisciplinary approach.[[{"fid":"16528","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small"},"link_text":"Full Exhibitions and Displays Criteria ","type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small"},"2":{"format":"small"}},"attributes":{"class":"file media-element file-small"}}]] Available spacesWe are looking for proposals for the following spaces:The OctagonThis gallery space sits at the heart of the Wilkins Building on UCL’s main campus.It comprises four large showcases with 15 micro-cases that meet security and environmental criteria for housing objects. The display infrastructure includes spot lighting for case contents and label rails for interpretative text. Exhibitions proposed for this space should be object-based.Octagon exhibitions are co-produced with the UCL Museums and Cultural Programmes team over a period of six months. We support the realisation of exhibitions by providing a structure and schedule for developing and interpreting content, managing all design aspects, and supporting on the practical aspects of their delivery, including installation. Associated public programmes are also collaboratively developed.The M&CP team provides a budget to help realise Octagon exhibitions, though we encourage proposers to consider their own financial contribution and other available budgets and awards.The M&CP team are currently seeking proposals for an Octagon exhibition opening at Easter 2024.To share an idea for an Octagon exhibition with us, please fill out the Octagon Exhibitions Proposal Form by 6pm on Friday 9 June.Please refer to the Exhibitions and Displays Criteria to check that your idea is suitable.The Cloisters (North and South)These spaces function as a significant throughfare on campus, connecting the Octagon and Main Library to a host of other spaces including the Provost Office, UCL Art Museum and ASCR. They each comprise eight large panels for hosting two-dimensional displays.Cloisters displays are co-developed with the UCL Museums and Cultural Programmes team over a period of four months. We support the realisation of these displays by providing a structure and schedule for developing and interpreting content, managing all design aspects, and supporting on the practical aspects of their delivery, including installation.Budget for the production of Cloisters displays must be provided by proposers.The M&CP team are currently seeking proposals for Cloisters displays for Autumn 2023 onwards.To share an idea for a Cloisters display with us, please fill out the Cloisters Display Proposal Form by 6pm on Friday 9 June.Please refer to the Exhibitions and Displays Criteria to check that your idea is suitable.Further informationIf your project involves a range of original, three-dimensional artefacts (for example, objects from UCL Collections) it is likely to be suited to the Octagon Gallery. If your project is reliant predominantly on graphic information and/or AV material, it is probably more suitable as a Cloisters display.Please select your application form accordingly.Next stepsIf you would like to find out more about the exhibition-making process or would like to discuss which space your idea is most suitable for in advance, please come along to one of our drop-in information sessions on Monday 22 May and Tuesday 23 May between 13:00-14:30 in the Whistler Room, Wilkins Building (near the Octagon Gallery).Proposals will be shortlisted by the Exhibitions team then reviewed by Programmes Board in late June 2023. Follow-up conversations with proposers may be scheduled in mid-June in advance of final selections.Supporting documentsPlease review the following before making a proposal:[[{"fid":"16528","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small"},"link_text":"Exhibitions and Displays Criteria","type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small"},"2":{"format":"small"}},"attributes":{"class":"file media-element file-small"}}]][[{"fid":"16529","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small"},"link_text":"Guidelines for Exhibition Proposers","type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small"}},"attributes":{"class":"file media-element file-small"}}]]Examples of past Octagon exhibitionsBlueprints of Hope: Celebrating LGBTQ+ LondonObjects of the Misanthropocene: Unearthing FuturesDisrupters and Innovators: Journeys in Gender Equality at UCLExamples of past Cloisters displaysInspiring Action on the Climate Emergency20 Years of Student Volunteering at UCLChristian Art and Faith in the Ethiopian Empire
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