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4 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.

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.

Two children in a dark room stood in front of a large sculpture - the child on the right shines a torch up at the sculpture while gesturing with their arm.

28 Oct 2023 – 29 Oct 2023

British Museum spooktacular sleepover
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Experience the Museum after dark and discover a world of magic, myths and mysterious spells.

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.