The Museum at the Royal Institution

Events at The Museum at the Royal Institution

• A Visitors Guide to Life on Earth

  Lecture

  23 Nov 2009 to 23 Nov 2009

  Join author, lecturer, television presenter and explorer George McGavin on an incredible journey through the planets biodiversity. What would aliens think if they landed on planet earth? This talk will examine the topic of biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth. Each nook and cranny of our world contains living things, from tiny bacteria to huge sea mammals, and this talk will take a unique view of the richness of life here on earth.

   

• Major 20th Century Collections

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  The Major 20th Century Collections displays at The Royal Institution's Faraday Museum. The exhibits are collected papers of four most famous scientists including the first Director of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory and the first Director of the Royal Institution. The collection includes Laboratory and experimental notebooks, pocket diaries, draft autobiography etc.

   

• Minor 19th Century Collections

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  The Royal Institution's Faraday Museum displays Minor 19th Century Collections. Museum presents several minor collections of the papers of people who have been associated with the Royal Institution in some way. The 19th century collections include scrapbooks containing letters, newspaper cuttings, biographical notes, autographs, reports and photographs.

   

• Minor 20th Century Collections

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  The Royal Institution's Faraday Museum presents Minor 20th Century Collections. This collection include several minor collections of papers of people who have been associated with the Royal Institution in some way; such as laboratory notebooks, selected journals relating to psychical research, biographical information on Sir William Crookes such as draft biography by E E Fournier D'Albe and photographs.