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Exhibitions and events

12 events

Online events / Lectures & discussions

4 Oct 2023

The story of Chinese food with Fuchsia Dunlop
. Online event .

Join award-winning food writer and cook Fuchsia Dunlop as she explores Chinese culinary culture.

Eight vertical pieces of a large framed map lined up next to each other as in the original. The map is light and dark blue.

Accessible event

6 Oct 2023

Deaf-led BSL tour of China’s hidden century exhibition
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Join Chisato Minamimura for a BSL tour of this exhibition, showcasing the resilience and innovation of 19th-century China.

Busy scene of a conference room floor in the middle of an event with various banners and tables set around the edges of the room promoting archaeology-related courses and universities. People can be seen talking amongst each other while carrying backpacks and tote bags and in the middle of the room is a small seating area where a few people can be seen resting.

Festivals & special events / Study days & courses

7 Oct 2023

University Archaeology Day 2023
. Free .

Explore a future in the past at our free annual university taster day featuring university departments, professional bodies and employers.

Member of staff wearing plastic conservation gloves leaning over a table handling a selection of collection material which rests on tissue paper.

Online events / Lectures & discussions / Members' exclusive

12 Oct 2023

Latin America and the Caribbean at the British Museum
. Online event .

Learn more about the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research in this free online talk.

Empty view of the Japanese gallery.

13 Oct 2023 – 26 Apr 2024

The way of tea
. Free .

Discover the history of tea drinking and gathering in Japan in this free demonstration of a Japanese tea ceremony.

A black textile adorned with colourful depictions of sitting figures surrounded by trees, a figure shooting an arrow towards the sky.

Lectures & discussions / Members' exclusive

£16 (Members)
16 Oct 2023

Introducing Burma to Myanmar
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Discover the upcoming exhibition 'Burma to Myanmar' with lead curator Alexandra Green.

Photo of a mechanism used to wind clocks. You can see cogs of the machine, and the metal is grey and painted green in places. Above the mechanism is a sign that says 'Fixed here 1859', and words are visible: Dent, of the Strand and the Royal Exchange, Clockmaker to...'

Lectures & discussions / Research event

2 Nov 2023

Dingwall-Beloe Horological Lecture 2023
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Join church and public clock specialist Keith Scobie-Youngs to explore the history of the winding of the Great Clock of Westminster.

Photograph showing a desert landscape stretching out into the horizon, punctuated by sand dunes and low-rocky peaks, as a figure in the left of the foreground looks out over the expanse.

Lectures & discussions / Members' exclusive

£16 (Members)
6 Nov 2023

The Sahara
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Join archaeologist Barry Cunliffe to explore the story of the Sahara and the people who lived in it.

A writing tablet made of wood and covered in lines of script in ink. The tablet is in fragments and laid out on cloth.

Lectures & discussions / Members' exclusive

13 Nov 2023

The Vindolanda tablets: meet the real Roman army
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Celebrate 50 years since the remarkable discovery which told the story of life in a Roman Britain fort.

Lectures & discussions / Members' exclusive

£16 (Members)
27 Nov 2023

A year in Anglo-Saxon England
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Join Dr Eleanor Parker to journey through a year in Anglo-Saxon England, from winter festivities to the summer solstice.

Marble portrait bust of a woman with her hair tied up in a bun and a light layer of fabric draped over her shoulders, appearing to be pinned to one side in the front. The complexion of the marble is lightly yellow and mottled throughout as well as showing minor signs of weathering particularly on the right hand surfaces.

Lectures & discussions / Members' exclusive

4 Dec 2023

The women who shaped the Roman Empire
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Join ancient historian Dr Emma Southon to follow the stories of women from across Rome's vast empire.

A golden figurine or statue of a standing Buddha in a flowing robe.

Accessible event

15 Dec 2023 – 19 Jan 2024

Deaf-led BSL tour of Burma to Myanmar
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Join Edward Richards for a British Sign Language (BSL) tour of the special exhibition Burma to Myanmar.