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Small Worlds: the art of the invisible
31 October 2007 - 6 April 2008
An exhibition of images, animation and poetry inspired by the Museum’s collection of microscopical specimens.
A collaboration with Heather Barnett and Will Holloway.

Seeing the Invisible

Sun 4 November, 2007 at 2.30pm

Table Talk

A talk on the simple microscope.
By Stephen Johnston

Under the microscope

Sat 10 November, 2007 at 2.00pm

Family Friendly Event

Find out about the fascinating story of the microscope and the discovery of a strange new world of tiny animalcules.
Suitable for children aged 9 upwards. Booking required - call 01865 277280.
2 to 4 pm

A guided tour of the special exhibition ‘Small Worlds’.

Sat 10 November, 2007 at 2.00pm

Gallery Talk

By Stephen Johnston.

Under the microscope

Sat 19 January, 2008 at 2.00pm

Family Friendly Event

Find out about the fascinating story of the microscope and the discovery of a strange new world of tiny animalcules.
Suitable for children aged 9 upwards. Booking required - call 01865 277280.
2 to 4 pm

‘Molecules to organisms: what directs the music of life?’

Tue 22 January, 2008 at 7.00pm

Public Lecture

Professor Denis Noble, CBE, FRS, FMedSci
Current debates with historical echoes.

Small and Shocking: microscopy in Restoration London

Sat 9 February, 2008 at 2.00pm

Afternoon Programme

An afternoon programme about Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke, and the English encounter with the micro-world.
Talk by Jim Bennett, ‘Wren, Hooke and Micrographia
Costumed readings from Thomas Shadwell’s play The Virtuoso
Readings from Micrographia and Hooke’s Diary

The solar microscope

Sun 17 February, 2008 at 2.30pm

Table Talk

By Jim Bennett

A guided tour of the special exhibition ‘Small Worlds’.

Mon 3 March, 2008 at 2.00pm

Gallery Talk

By Stephen Johnston

Big questions about small worlds

Wed 5 March, 2008 at 7.00pm

Public Lecture

Professor Rom Harre
Professor Harre will consider the historical and philosophical issues surrounding one of the most common assumptions of modern science, that our experience of the natural world is to be explained in terms of tiny entities. What kind of knowledge can we have of this invisible world?

‘Secrets of Nature: how the microscope brought an invisible world to the cinema’

Tue 11 March, 2008 at 7.00pm

Public Lecture

Dr Tim Boon
Natural history filmmaking began in 1903, when a London Music Hall showed a film, shot through a microscope, showing Stilton cheese mites. A genre of films of ‘the unseen world’ became enormously popular in the interwar period.
Tim Boon is Chief Curator at the Science Museum, London.

Gulliver’s Worlds

Sat 5 April, 2008 at 10.00am

Family Friendly Event

A fabulous day for all the family with children’s activities, storytelling and talks venturing into Gulliver’s worlds from the microscopic to the telescopic.
Suitable for all the family.
10 am to 5 pm

Museum of the History of Science
Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk

Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday 12 noon to 5 pm
Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday 2 to 5 pm
Closed on Mondays and bank holidays