Events
February 2012
| Friday 3 February | 13.15 | Chinese money | Gallery talk | Free |
| 18.30 | Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta | Film | £ | |
| Saturday 4 February | 10.30–16.30 | Open University study day: introduction to the Classical World | Study day | £ |
| 11.30–15.30 | Teddy time traveller | Family activity | Free | |
| 13.15 | Egypt under the Roman emperors | Gallery talk | Free | |
| 18.15–09.00 | Hajj sleepover | Young friends | £ | |
| Sunday 5 February | 11.00 & 14.00 | Manga comic workshop (Fully booked) | Family activity | Free |
| Monday 6 February | 13.15 | Hajj: curators' introduction | Lecture | Free |
| 18.15–21.00 | Members’ Open Evening | Member event | Free | |
| Tuesday 7 February | 13.15 | Idris Khan’s Seven Times | Gallery talk | Free |
| Wednesday 8 February | 13.15 | Treasures from temples, tombs and palaces | Gallery talk | Free |
| 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 | 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 |
More events in 2012
| Thursday 1 March | 13.15 | Hajj: curators' introduction | Lecture | Free |
| Friday 2 March | 13.15 | Archaeology and Material culture of sub Saharan Africa | Lecture | Free |
| 18.30 | Rome and the Sword | Lecture | £ | |
| 18.30 | LRB winter lecture: Europe | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 3 March | 10.30–17.00 | Manuscript illustration and pigments workshop | Workshop | £ |
| 14.00 | Lord Jim | Film | £ | |
| 10.30–17.30 | City Lit Classics day | Study day | £ | |
| Sunday 4 March | 14.00–19.00 | Golden age of the Celts | Young friends | £ |
| Friday 9 March | 18.00–21.00 | Late: Journey to the heart of Islam | Special event | Free |
| Friday 9 March | 18.30 | LRB winter lecture: Marx at 193 | Lecture | £ |
| Saturday 10 March | 10.30–17.00 | Hajj: a journey of faith | Study day | £ |
| Monday 12 March | 11.00–15.30 | Museum studies day | Study day | £ |
| Friday 16 March | 18.30 | The Magnetism of Mecca | Lecture | £ |
| 13.15 | Jerusalem the golden: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre models | Gallery talk | Free | |
| Saturday 17 March | 13.15 | Arabic and arabesques: themes in Islamic art | Gallery talk | Free |
| 14.00 | Roads to Mecca | Film | Free | |
| 11.00–16.00 | Zoom in: a closer look at science | Special event | Free | |
| Tuesday 20 March | 11.00–17.00 | Museums and Participation: Unlocking the potential of things (Fully booked) | Conference | Free |
| Thursday 22 March | Conference: The Hajj | Conference | £ | |
| Friday 23 March | 18.30 | Hajj among pilgrimages | Lecture | £ |
| 14.00–17.00 | Printmaking: monotypes | Workshop | £ | |
| Monday 26 March | 13.15 | One Thousand Roads to Mecca | Film | Free |
| Tuesday 27 March | 13.15 | Buddhist pilgrimage sites across South Asia | Gallery talk | Free |
| Friday 30 March | 18.30 | Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta | Film | Free |
| 18.30 | LRB winter lecture: Marilyn Monroe | Lecture | £ | |
| Saturday 31 March | 10.30–16.30 | Open University study day: introducing religions | Study day | £ |
| 18.15–09.00 | Hajj sleepover | Young friends | £ | |
| 13.15 | Journey to Mecca | Film | Free | |
| Wednesday 4 April | 13.15 | Hajj art: young artists' work from Saudi Arabia | Gallery talk | Free |
| Tuesday 10 April | 13.15 | India's sacred geography: pilgrimage in Hindu tradition | Gallery talk | Free |
| Friday 13 April | 18.30 | Le Grand voyage | Film | £ |
| Saturday 14 April | 10.30–16.30 | Open University study day: from Enlightenment to Romanticism | Study day | £ |
| Saturday 21 April | 13.00–17.00 | The Art of Memory day | Study day | £ |
| 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 | £ |
| Saturday 23 June | 10.30–16.30 | The Olympic Games and sport across ancient cultures | Study day | £ |
| Saturday 21 July | 10.00–17.00 | Stone carving | Workshop | £ |
S sign interpreted
£ event with charge
M event for Members
S sign interpreted
£ event with charge
M event for Members
Highlight events
Arabian encounters
Monday 13 – Friday 17 February, 11.00–16.00
Encounter the cultures of Arabia in a week of special activities.
Lawrence of Arabia
Friday 17 February, 18.30
Peter O’Toole stars as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean’s classic Oscar-winning epic.