Science Museum Lates

"31.08.11 18.45-22.00 View Information

Discover the Science of the Universe with Lates.
This month, we’ve got big ideas, really really big ideas, bigger than the biggest thing you can think of multiplied by a billion, as we explore the Science of the Universe.

Find out how big and old the universe is. Hear all about the Museum's newest (yet oldest) acquisition, a 3.3 billion year old piece of Moon rock, plus harness the power of an air vortex in our Air Blaster Challenge and enjoy all the usual Lates fun and games."

A CURIOUS HISTORY OF THE GRANT'S NEW HOME: A WALKING TOUR Date: 15 September | Time: 6pm | Location: Meet at top of steps outside Wilkins Building, Main Quad, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free, but booking is essential at http://curioushistory.eventbrite.com | Age group: Adults | When UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology moved into its new home, it threw a spotlight on fascinating stories in the University’s history. This walking tour explores the surrounding streets and buildings in search of those stories. Learn about the Medical School’s secret entrance and what it was used for, fights between doctors and professors and the surprising connection to the Natural History Museum. See the effects of the Blitz. Stand on the site of the famous menace to midnight traffic. The tour adds a special detour into Darwin’s life on Gower Street.  Led by science historians Joe Cain and Brendan Clarke (UCL Science and Technology Studies), the walk lasts approximately one hour and will run rain or shine. Wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather. The tour concludes with a free glass of wine in the Museum. Booking is essential atcurioushistory.eventbrite.com as numbers are limited.  020 3108 2052 |  zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk

Favourite Places The London Transport Museum

Trams & trolleybuses

London’s first trams were horse-drawn. Later, electric trams covered many areas of the city. Trolleybuses were introduced in 1931 to replace trams. Like trams, they were powered by electricity from overhead wires, but they were cheaper to run as there was no track to maintain. Today trams have made a revival in Croydon.

Horse tram

Electric tram

Electric tram

Electric tram

Trolleybus

Trolleybus

Trolleybus

London On the Move 1970 Original Film from the London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum

Monday - Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 10.00 - 18.00 (last admission 17.15)
Friday 11.00 - 18.00 (last admission 17.15)

Horse bus

Horse bus

Horse bus

Motor bus chassis

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus chassis

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

Motor bus

At the London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats. Peer down into the unique heritage of a huge Victorian ice well used to store ice imported from Norway and brought by ship and canal boat to be stored. This unique waterways museum is housed in a former ice warehouse built in about 1862-3 for Carlo Gatti, the famous ice cream maker, and features the history of the ice trade and ice cream as well as the canals. This is the only London museum of inland waterways and is situated at King's Cross, an accessible central London location.

12-13 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RT.
Tel: 020 7713 0836
Fax:020 7689 6679
Registered Charity No. 277484.

Canal Museum Website

Grant Museum of Zoology

Introduction

The Grant Museum is the only remaining university zoological museum in London. It houses around 67,000 specimens, covering the whole Animal Kingdom. Founded in 1828 as a teaching collection, the Museum is packed full of skeletons, mounted animals and specimens preserved in fluid. Many of the species are now endangered or extinct including the Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine, the Quagga, and the Dodo. 

Highlights

The Grant Museum has selection of spectacular glass models made by the Blaschka family in the late 1800s. The museum also contains many of Robert Grant's original specimens as well as those of Thomas Henry Huxley. The Grant Museum's collection of Sir Victor Negus's bisected heads are both arresting and beautiful and are reminiscent of the work of the artist Damien Hirst.

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