The Grant Museum of Zoology is reopening after a refurbishment

The much loved Grant Museum of Zoology will reopen in a couple of weeks time following an extended closure for nearly a year of refurbishment works.

Tickets Alert: The Laboratory of Psychical Research

A chance to both go inside Senate House and enter into a recreation of Harry Price's 1920s National Laboratory of Psychical Research.

Tickets Alert: Virtual tours of a London space observatory

The UK's largest reflector telescope can be found, surprisingly, in North London, and while the lockdown carries on, they're starting a series of virtual tours of the observatory.

The UK’s largest optical telescope – is in London

An observatory operated by UCL in North London has acquired a new telescope, which happens to be the largest of its kind in the UK.

Leonardo da Vinci defying death at UCL

Perpetual motion and the perpetuity of life are the topic of two very different exhibitions within yards of each other within UCL's campus in central London.

Jeremy Bentham’s mummified head goes on public display

Long locked away following a botched preservation attempt, the decapitated mummified head of the philosopher, Jeremy Bentham has been put on display for the first time in decades.

An astonishing display of an obsessive collection of film facts

Never has a database ever looked so beautiful. If the IMDB website were ever to be printed out on old computer punch cards, this is what it would look like.

Tickets now available for UCL arts festival

A four-day arts festival is taking place at the end of next month in central London at UCL, with a range of free events.

Tickets now available for UCL arts festival next month

A four-day arts festival is taking place at the end of next month in central London at UCL, with a range of free events.

Have your photo taken with Jeremy Bentham

Short notice, but persons of a morbid or academic bent might want to pop over to UCL on Thursday afternoon - for there is a chance to have your photo taken with a dead man.

A rare chance to see Jeremy Bentham out of his box

180 years ago a man died. A very significant man in life, and who was to become a curious icon in death.

Have you been to the new Grant Museum yet?

If not, then tomorrow night (Tues 24th May) is as good an opportunity as any as they are hosting one of their more "light hearted" lectures which will unveil what it is like for a conservationist to go trekking through jungles and swamps looking for an animal that is on the verge of extinction.

Big bangs, Smelly explosions & Blowing bubbles

How can you get young people interested in science? Show them a board full of formula, or display things going BANG and SMELLING a lot? Actually, I think the question applies to adults as well, and last night UCL’s Chemistry…

The Mummy – surrounded by Mummies

Last night I wandered along to the Petrie Museum for a rather interesting idea. The museum was hosting a small film event and was going to show a viewing of the Hammer Horror classic, The Mummy – which was rather…

Free B&W movies on the big screen

There are a couple of free B&W movies being shown on a big screen this week which may interest you – and which interest me which is why I am going to them. Tuesday 21st Oct at 6:30pm – the…