[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Museums Showoff is coming to London on Wednesday night

Note QRpedia slot: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rosie Clarke &lt;Rosie(a)culture24.org.uk&gt; Date: 23 April 2012 17:26 Subject: Museums Showoff is coming to London on Wednesday night To: MCG(a)jiscmail.ac.uk Dear All, This Wednesday evening (25th April) I'm one of an enthusiastic bunch of museum people who'll be talking about our latest projects and discoveries at "Museums Showoff <http://wp.me/p1LEfs-7e> ", in the Camden Head pub on Camden High Street. Doors open at 7pm, and admission's free (although the suggested donation is £5, to go to the charity Arts Emergency, http://www.arts-emergency.org <http://www.arts-emergency.org%20> who campaign to make arts and humanities degrees accessible to people from disadvantaged backgrounds.) The speakers will be: Terence Eden on QRpedia Brian Macken on the Irish Natural History Museum, or 'The Dead Zoo' MJ Hibbett from Dinosaur Planet with a rock opera about space dinosaurs Gordon Cummings on the North West Essex Collection Subhadra Das on UCL's Pathology Collections, or, Why Russell Brand Should Never Be Let Near Any Museum Collection; Ever Gemma Angel on the Wellcome Collection's 300 preserved tattooed human skins Me talking about Museums at Night Ayla Lepine on teenagers in the V&A Catherine Walker with handling objects from the Wellcome Collection, including a shrunken head Steve Lloyd on responsive signage at the Science Museum and a robot in the Houses of Parliament Robots, tattoos, shrunken heads and a rock opera about space dinosaurs - how can you resist? If you come along, please do say hello to me! All the best, Rosie Clarke Marketing Coordinator, Culture24 Direct line: 01273 623336 Main office: 01273 623266 Follow: @MuseumsAtNight <http://twitter.com/MuseumsAtNight> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About: www.WeAreCulture24.org.uk <http://www.weareculture24.org.uk/> Supporting the cultural sector to reach audiences online Enjoy: www.culture24.org.uk <http://www.culture24.org.uk/> Your arts & heritage guide online Museums at Night: www.museumsatnight.org.uk <http://www.museumsatnight.org.uk/> Annual festival of arts, culture & heritage 18th-20th May 2012 Culture24 is the official cultural data provider to the BBC ****************************************************************       website:  http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/       Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg      Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup  [un]subscribe:  http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ **************************************************************** -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk