East Dulwich & Forest Hill

Daily 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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The Horniman Museum's collections include a substantial amount of archaeological material, including items from all over the world. Frederick Horniman began these collections himself, and they were added to over the decades through donations and purchases from a number of sources. British prehistoric material forms a large proportion of collection, the bulk of it flint tools, some from well-known sites such as Swanscombe and Grimes Graves. There are also prehistoric objects from all over Europe and some parts of Africa. Ancient Peruvian pottery and Caribbean stone tools are also represented. The Museum has a large number of Ancient Egyptian artefacts as well as a collection of Ancient Greek and Cypriot pottery. Other material includes flint tools and weapons from North America, glass spearheads from Australia and a small collection of Romano-British objects.

Daily 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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Make connections to Horniman Museum and Gardens objects, exhibitions through reading in a group.

30 November 2009

The Hob SE23 3HE[map]

Recreation of a Led Zeppelin concert through acoustic songs and heavy rock numbers.

Every Thu 9:00 PM

The Hob SE23 3HE[map]

A pub quiz hosted by a comedian.

Daily 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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The Centenary Gallery puts on show anthropological artefacts from cultures and civilisations from every continent. The gallery focuses on the changes in perspective of collectors over the last 100 years, from amateur enthusiasts like Frederick Horniman himself, to academic anthropologists such as Alfred Cort Haddon, the Museum's first advisory curator. Items collected by recent anthropology curators from places such as Nigeria, the American Southwest and Nepal show how collecting has become a much more collaborative enterprise.

Daily 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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The African collections, an estimated 22,000 objects, represent 28 per cent of the total ethnography collection. The geographical range of the collection is wide, covering the whole of the continent, with virtually every modern African state represented, stretching from the northern deserts to the Cape of Good Hope and from the Guinea Coast to the Horn of Africa. The variety of material is considerable and encompasses aspects of many different lifestyles, from hunter-gathering and farming to town and city life. From the 1950's, development of the collection focused on representing the material culture of specific African peoples. Significant museum holdings include systematic collections from the Sua of Zaire, the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Botswana, the Tuareg of Algeria, the Samburu of Kenya and the people of the Cross-River area of Nigeria.

Daily 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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The American collections were built from purchases, including the Inuit and Northwest coast collections made by A.C. Haddon and donated to the Museum by Emslie Horniman. Other important donations of American material to the Museum, include pre-Columbian archaeological pieces from central Mexico and Oaxaca. John Eric Horniman, Emslie's son, also made an excellent collection of Plains Indian beaded material, including clothing, pipe bags and a bonnet. The collection includes items transferred from other institutions such as the 59 Northwest coast pieces from the Museum of the American Indian, New York (1934), the two Kwatiutl masks and related material from the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew (1958), as well as material collected in the field and other purchases such as a collection of Inuit seal skin clothing from the Church Missionary Society (1965). In 1961 the Museum acquired a Blackfoot Tipi, transferred from the Glenbow Museum, Canada.

Daily 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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The Asian collections consist of approximately 32,000 items and are particularly rich in art, including carvings of gods, masks and puppets, and other items of material culture from India, China, Japan, Sri Lanka and Burma. Many of the Indian and Japanese objects were part of Frederick Horniman's original collection and include important examples of stone sculpture (depicting, for example, Hanuman, Ganesha, and Jain figures), ritual objects and Japanese, Chinese and Indian costumes. The collections also contain architectural pieces such as archways and doors from India.

Daily 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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A unique aspect of this collection is that it contains substantial and important collections from western and central Europe as well as Scandinavia. Until recently, the Horniman has been the only museum in the UK committed to research in this area. Frederick Horniman was an avid collector of European material, acquiring examples of items which were in danger of being lost as a result of industrialisation and urbanisation. From 1901 - 1947, little European material entered the Museum. Since then, donations from England, Romania and the Balkans amongst others have enhanced the collections. Notable among these collections are extensive holdings of textiles, costume, wooden utensils, paintings on glass, agricultural and domestic implements and masks from Romania, Poland, Norway and the Tyrol region.

Daily 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM Closed Boxing Day,Christmas Day

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The core of the Pacific collections was assembled under the auspices of Alfred Cort Haddon, an eminent scholar of Oceania who acted as Advisory Curator between 1903 and 1915. They contain material from all the region's three sub-areas, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, with a particularly strong focus on Papua New Guinea. Although only numbering some 3,000 artefacts, these collections are distinguished by the particularly fine quality of the objects and the important source collections from which many of them were derived. Within the Pacific collection there are notable holdings from the Bismarck Archipelago, two chalk figures and five tatuana masks from New Ireland, extensive Papuan Gulf material including gope boards, items of personal decoration and so on. The collection contains two Solomon Island canoes, three particularly fine anthropomorphic prow ornaments, a Cook Island canoe and models and canoe attachments from elsewhere in the Pacific.

Every Sat 9:00 PM

The Hob SE23 3HE[map]

Established South-East London comedy night.