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St Andrews Climate Week
The inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week will run from 27-30 May 2024, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and build new cross-disciplinary collaborations. Climate Week is a STAIRS-funded initiative, featuring: -- a flagship St Andrews Climate Change Conference on Tuesday 28 May. Confronting climate change is one of...
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Rocket Rumble (7+)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Join us as, at the Wardlaw Museum, we start our space journey. Work out how we could get to outer planets and launch your own mini space mission. Learn, craft and explore as we look into our new exhibitions ' Alien Worlds'. If possible bring your own recycled plastic...
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Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner
Beyond institutional denial: a global constitutional convention for future generations
Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Gardiner of the University of Washington. Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance...
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Microbe Magic (7+)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Could creatures from Earth thrive on other planets? Is there life on other planets? Come and discover more and make your own mini microbe factory in a recycled bottle. If possible bring your own recycled plastic...
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Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry
About climate justice: what does it mean and what lies ahead?
Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Tahseen Jafry of Glasgow Caledonian University. In July 2023, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever. Several regions grappled...
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Animation Station (7+)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Our imaginations are AMAZING!!! Did you know they help us to picture what other planets are like? Come and let your imagination run wild and have a go at stop motion...
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Rocket Rumble (Under 7)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Join us, at the Wardlaw Museum, as we start our space journey. Work out how we could get to outer planets and launch your own mini space mission. Learn, craft and explore as we look into our new exhibitions ' Alien Worlds'. If possible bring your own recycled plastic...
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Rocket Rumble (Drop-In)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Join us, at the Wardlaw Museum, as we start our space journey. Work out how we could get to outer planets and launch your own mini space mission. Learn, craft and explore as we look into our new exhibitions ' Alien Worlds'. If possible bring your own recycled plastic...
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Limited access
Animation Station (7+)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Our imaginations are AMAZING! Did you know they help us to picture what other planets are like? Come and let your imagination run wild and have a go at stop motion...
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Limited access
Planet Pioneers (Under 7)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Are there volcanos in outer space? Are there larva pits on mars? Come along to the Wardlaw Museum and learn about what other planets are like and use your imagination to create your...
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Planet Pioneers (Drop-in)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Are there volcanos in outer space? Are there larva pits on mars? Come along to the Wardlaw Museum and learn about what other planets are like and use your imagination to create your...
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Limited access
Animation Station (Under 7)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Our imaginations are AMAZING! Did you know they help us to picture what other planets are like? Come and let your imagination run wild and have a go at stop motion...
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Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive
An exploratory workshop
With more than 15,000 original texts, the Persepolis Fortification Archive is one of the largest surviving governmental archives from the ancient world. The surviving texts date from the 13th to the 28th regnal years of Darius I (509 to 493 BCE), with the majority falling between regnal years 21 and 24. The archive records...
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Animation Station (Under 7)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Our imaginations are AMAZING!!! Did you know they help us to picture what other planets are like? Come and let your imagination run wild and have a go at stop motion...
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St Andrews and Empire: object handling session with the St Andrews Preservation Trust
In 2023, the St Andrews Preservation Trust organised the exhibition St Andrews and Empire at its Museum, which resulted from research, begun in 2021 with students from the University's Museum and Heritage Studies course, to examine colonial links in the Trust's collection and explore possibilities for decolonisation. Most objects in the St Andrews Preservation...
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International Museums Conference and ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly
Transnational Island Museologies, 5-7 June 2024, International Museums Conference
The International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), the School of Art History, and the European Research Council (ERC) selected and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded Shared Island Stories research project invite delegates to the hybrid (in-person and online) conference on the topic of Transnational Island Museologies. The conference will also host the 47th ICOFOM...
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Microbe Magic (Under 7)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Could creatures from Earth thrive on other planets? Is there life on other planets? Come and discover more and make your own mini microbe factory in a recycled bottle. If possible bring your own recycled plastic...
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Keynote: Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Founder of Fridays for Future (FFF) Uganda
Transnational Island Museologies, 5-7 June 2024, International Museums Conference
Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a Ugandan climate and environmental rights activist. Fridays for Future Uganda is the largest youth movement in East Africa. Hilda is based in Kampala and focuses on raising awareness and mobilising young people towards climate action. Hilda organises clean-up sessions in Lake Victoria, fights for racial and gender justice, and...
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Microbe Magic (Drop-in)
Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops
Could creatures from Earth thrive on other planets? Is there life on other planets? Come and discover more and make your own mini microbe factory in a recycled bottle. If possible bring your own recycled plastic...
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Youth Workshop: Young People Shaping the Future of Museology through the Lens of the SDGs
Transnational Island Museologies, 5-7 June 2024, International Museums Conference
Interested in museums, youth issues, heritage and the climate emergency? This FREE participatory workshop will offer the opportunity to share, discuss and debate these issues with international and national experts, including climate activists and heritage professionals. You are invited to take part, share your story and potentially impact international museum policy! This workshop is...
