| Thursday 8 May |
18.30 |
El-Amarna: city of Akhenaten |
Lecture |
£ |
| |
18.30 |
The quest for ancient Britain |
Gallery talk |
S |
| Friday 9 May |
13.15 |
Assyrian Revival: art and
archaeology |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
13.30 & 15.00 |
The Way of Tea |
Demonstration |
|
| |
18.30 |
Architecture and iconography at the
imperial margin |
Lecture |
|
| Saturday 10 May |
10.00–17.00 |
Stone carving |
Workshop |
£ |
| |
13.15 |
Animal motifs in ancient
Mexico |
Gallery talk |
|
| Tuesday 13 May |
13.15 |
The dawn of technology: the mystery of
handaxes |
Gallery talk |
|
| Wednesday 14 May |
13.15 |
Southern writers |
Gallery talk |
|
| Thursday 15 May |
13.15 |
American printmaking and the
Depression |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.30 |
American photography 1900-1960 |
Lecture |
£ |
| Friday 16 May |
13.15 |
Medieval enamels: what can science tell
us? |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.30 |
Up from the streets |
Film |
£ |
| Saturday 17 May |
13.15 |
Trajan and Hadrian |
Gallery talk |
|
| Sunday 18 May |
10.00–17.00 |
Open University day at the British
Museum |
Study session |
|
| Tuesday 20 May |
13.15 |
Nameless but not faceless: identity in
Prehistoric Europe |
Gallery talk |
|
| Wednesday 21 May |
13.15 |
China Landscape |
Gallery talk |
|
| Thursday 22 May |
13.15 |
Small change in the HSBC Money
Gallery |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
14.00–16.30 |
Delacroix and Sardanapalus |
Study session |
£ |
| |
18.30 |
American painting: the southern
painter's narrative journey |
Lecture |
£ |
| Friday 23 May |
13.15 |
Prehistoric jewellery in Britain and
beyond |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
13.30 & 15.00 |
The Way of Tea |
Demonstration |
|
| |
18.30 |
Make it modern |
Film |
£ |
| Saturday 24 May |
13.15 |
Beginnings of civilisation in
Mesopotamia |
Gallery talk |
|
| Monday 26 May |
11.00–16.00 |
Half term activities: Get hip, stay
cool |
Family event |
|
| Tuesday 27 May |
11.00–16.00 |
Half term activities: Get hip, stay
cool |
Family event |
|
| |
13.15 |
Hadrian in Britain |
Gallery talk |
|
| Wednesday 28 May |
11.00–16.00 |
Half term activities: Get hip, stay
cool |
Family event |
|
| |
13.15 |
Migrations and Native American art from
Mesoamerica to Europeans |
Gallery talk |
|
| Thursday 29 May |
11.00–16.00 |
Half term activities: Get hip, stay
cool |
Family event |
|
| |
13.15 |
The crystal skull: scientific
insights |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.30 |
American sexualities: technology and
change |
Lecture |
£ |
| |
20.15–21.15 |
Julian Joseph trio |
Performance |
£ |
| Friday 30 May |
11.00–16.00 |
Half term activities: Get hip, stay
cool |
Family event |
|
| |
13.15 |
Gods and rulers: masters of warfare in
Mesoamerica |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.30 |
In search of America |
Film |
£ |
| Saturday 31 May |
13.00–20.30 |
Word from Africa |
Special event |
|
| |
13.15 |
The golden age of Athens |
Gallery talk |
|
| Tuesday 3 June |
13.15 |
Fascination with nature: Birds, flowers
and insects |
Gallery talk |
|
| Wednesday 4 June |
13.15 |
Botany to cuneiform: Enlightenment
themes |
Gallery talk |
|
| Thursday 5 June |
13.15 |
Displaying modern Japan |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.30 |
American music: imagining New
Orleans |
Lecture |
£ |
| |
18.30 |
Hot, flat and crowded |
Lecture |
£ |
| Friday 6 June |
13.15 |
The book in Japanese
photography |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
14.30–17.00 |
Making mosaics |
Workshop |
£ |
| |
18.30 |
Artists' lives |
Film |
£ |
| |
18.30–20.30 |
Jazz among artists |
Performance |
|
| Saturday 7 June |
11.00–16.00 |
Founder’s day |
Special event |
|
| |
13.15 |
China Landscape |
Gallery talk |
|
| Tuesday 10 June |
13.15 |
The secret life of trees |
Gallery talk |
|
| Wednesday 11 June |
13.15 |
Raffles: collector and empire
builder |
Gallery talk |
|
| Thursday 12 June |
13.15 |
The arts of Sudanic Africa |
Gallery talk |
|
| Friday 13 June |
13.15 |
Images of kingship: coin portraits in
the Hellenistic world |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
13.30 & 15.00 |
The Way of Tea |
Demonstration |
|
| |
18.30 |
Earth and water |
Film |
£ |
| Saturday 14 June |
13.15 |
Cyprus in the shadow of
empires |
Gallery talk |
|
| Tuesday 17 June |
13.15 |
Solomon Islands |
Gallery talk |
|
| Wednesday 18 June |
13.15 |
Baskets, weaving and textiles in Native
American art |
Gallery talk |
|
| Thursday 19 June |
13.15 |
Renaissance to Neoclassical in Western
style |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.30 |
The Vindolanda tablets: an insight into
life in Roman Britain |
Gallery talk |
S |
| |
18.30 |
American art as emblem of democracy:
from the New Deal to the Cold War |
Lecture |
£ |
| |
18.30 |
From the Holy Mountain |
Lecture |
£ |
| Friday 20 June |
13.15 |
Fascination with Nature: Birds, flowers
and insects |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.00 |
Between Iran and China |
Lecture |
|
| |
18.30 |
New York observed |
Film |
£ |
| Saturday 21 June |
13.15 |
Early civilisation in ancient
Egypt |
Gallery talk |
|
| Tuesday 24 June |
13.15 |
Modern Japan in photobooks |
Gallery talk |
|
| Wednesday 25 June |
13.15 |
Making money: currency and
industrialisation |
Gallery talk |
|
| Thursday 26 June |
13.15 |
European Christian religious objects,
15th–18th centuries |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.30 |
The future of the past |
Lecture |
£ |
| Friday 27 June |
13.15 |
Discovering plant products in the China
landscape |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
13.30 & 15.00 |
The Way of Tea |
Demonstration |
|
| Saturday 28 June |
13.15 |
Ancient Egypt and the island of
Cyprus |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
19.00–21.00 |
Brahms’ German Requiem |
Performance |
£ |
| Friday 4 July |
13.15 |
Collecting American prints |
Gallery talk |
|
| |
18.30–20.30 |
Jazz among artists |
Performance |
|
| |
18.30–21.00 |
American Late: Independence
Day |
Late |
|
| Tuesday 15 July |
|
New research on the Bayeux
Tapestry |
Conference |
£ |
| Wednesday 16 July |
|
New research on the Bayeux
Tapestry |
Conference |
£ |
| Monday 28 July |
|
Annual Egyptological Colloquium
2008 |
Colloquium |
£ |
| Thursday 7 August |
13.15 |
Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionist
printmaking |
Gallery talk |
|
| Friday 5 September |
18.30–20.30 |
Jazz among artists |
Performance |
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