Knowledge Quarter staff and friends are welcome to join our private breakfast view of Displays of Power at UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology. Enjoy privileged out-of-hours access to the exhibition in the company of lovely, like-minded individuals living and working in the Knowledge Quarter.

Once you’ve seen how Empire shaped the Grant Museum collection, you’ll never look at natural history museums in the same way again.

When the practice of collecting animals for science was at its height, so was the British Empire. This exhibition connects the specimens in the Grant Museum to a wider history of science and Empire, by asking one simple question: “How did all these things come to be here in the first place?”

About UCL's Grant Museum:

The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy was established in 1827 by Robert Edmond Grant to serve as a teaching collection at the newly founded University of London (later University College London). It is one of the oldest natural history collections in the UK, and is the last remaining university natural history museum in London. Home to 68,000 zoological specimens, the collection is a unique window on the entire animal kingdom.

About KQ Private Views:

Staff and friends of the Knowledge Quarter and its 98 partner organisations get free, out-of-hours access to some of the best exhibitions in London.

Our series of exclusive Private Views has opened the doors (before they open to the public) of the British Museum, The Francis Crick Institute and the Wellcome Collection. More intimate venues such as the House of Illustration and the London Metropolitan Archives have proven equally as popular. These exhibition events, often accompanied by tours, provide an opportunity for the wealth of collection treasures in the Knowledge Quarter to be to be shared and celebrated.

Join us for morning coffee (and a croissant or two), and make new friends with staff working in the Knowledge Quarter as you ponder manuscripts, genomes, butterflies, portraits, illustrations, busts, nudes and much, much more.

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Knowledge Quarter Private View: Displays of Power