Creating Lifelong Wellbeing and Expression in Museum Environments

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Creating Lifelong Wellbeing and Expression in Museum Environments

Part of the Festival of Social Sciences 2023 programme . Taking place at UCL Wilkins Building, Bloomsbury Campus, London.

By UCL Museums Programmes

Date and time

Starts on Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:30 GMT+1

Location

UCL Wilkins (Main) Building

Gower Street London WC1E 6BT United Kingdom

About this event

    This workshop series is for university-level students. Attendees may book onto single or multiple dates.

    What is it about?

    These morning sessions offer you the opportunity to investigate lifelong wellbeing in-depth in a museum setting. The sessions will be about exploring different museum collections and environments through handling, viewing and responding, with focus on your own creative interpretation and thoughts and feelings that arise in response to ideas around what lifelong wellbeing means to you. There will be a broad range of art materials provided to have a creative opportunity to respond to the space, museum collections and working together, facilitated by an experienced Art Psychotherapist.

    The sessions are part of the Festival of Social Sciences 2023, taking place between Saturday 21 October and Friday 17 November. This year, the festival will focus on lifelong wellbeing, exploring mental and physical health at all ages and celebrating the 75th anniversary of the NHS. Click here for more information on the festival and the programme

    Locations and schedule

    • Wednesday 8 November, 2023: Object Based Learning Lab (OBLL), 09.30 - 12.30
    • Thursday 9 November, 2023: Object Based Learning Lab (OBLL), 09.30 - 12.30

    Please Note: the OBLL houses a teaching collection including scientific instruments, as well as animal and human remains. If you have any questions, please direct these to George via g.paris@ucl.ac.uk

    Access

    • The venue has step-free access.
    • Step-free toilets, and both gendered/gender neutral toilets are located within a few minutes of each venue.
    • A Changing Places toilet facility is within 5 minutes' distance of each venue
    • Staff will be on hand to give directions.

    Finding us

    The venue is located on the ground floor of the UCL Wilkins building, located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of central London. The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Victoria Line), and buses 18, 30, 73, 134 and 205 stop 3-5 minutes away on Euston Road.

    Google map pins are unfortunately slightly incorrect but for both venues you can head here via Gower Street and then use the below maps to navigate within the campus grounds.

    Organised by

    UCL Museums and Cultural Programmes curates, animates and facilitates engagement with UCL content found amongst the libraries, collections, museums, theatre and public spaces at the University College London.

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