What’s On

Artist-led workshop for children fashioning objects of optical illusion with collage and assemblage. Lled by Stephanie Douet. Places limited, booking required.

Discover early voyages of exploration with maps, globes and hands-on navigational instruments. Suitable for ages 7-13. No need to book - just drop in!

Dr Stephen Johnston gives a curator tour of the current exhibition 'Natural Histories'.

Dr Stephen Johnston gives a curator tour of the current exhibition 'Natural Histories'.

Discover the Museum's collection of globes, how they used to be made and make your own model globe. Suitable for ages 9-13. Booking required (museum@mhs.ox.ac.uk/01865 277280), voluntary materials donation £5.

Professor Paul Smith, Director of the Museum of Natural History, will show how these early maps give insights into the 3-dimensional structure of the Earth.

Follow your stars, make an amazing star dial or paper plate planetarium. Suitable for ages 7-13. No need to book, just drop in!

Public Lecture by Dr Anna Marie Roos.
Natural history was one of the many interests that could catch the curious eye of a 17th-century intellectual. Anna Marie Roos, biographer of just such a virtuoso figure, Martin Lister, will talk about his life and science, and the recent discoveries that she has made about him in Oxford.

Dr Stephen Johnston introduces the current exhibition, Natural Histories.

Monica Price, assistant curator of Mineralogy at the Museum of Natural History presents some of the fakes and forgeries from the University's collection of minerals.