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MAY
30th May 2013
Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hofmann and his Discovery of LSD


31st May 2013
Mouse Taxidermy with Shannon Harmon

JUNE
2nd June 2013
Mouse Taxidermy with Shannon Harmon

2nd June 2013
Wax Wounds Workshop with Eleanor Crook

3rd June 2013
Roberta Ballestriero on Anatomical Waxes


4th June 2013
A History of Music Driving Women Mad with Dr. James Kennaway

5th June 2013
Solitary Vice: Sex and Dissection in Georgian London with Simon Chaplin

6th June 2013
Betsy Bradley on Heartthrobs of the Human Zoo: Ethnographic Exhibitions and Captive Celebrities of Turn of the Century America

7th June 2013
The Astounding Collection of Henry Wellcome:Blythe House Backstage Tour

10th June 2013
Neapolitan Cult of the Dead with Chiara Ambrosio

11th June 2013
A Vile Vaudeville of Gothic Attractions with Mervyn Heard

12th June 2013
Professor Heard's Most Extraordinary Magic Lantern Show

13th June 2013
Speaking Reliquaries and Christian Death Rituals: Part One of the "Hairy Secrets" series


14th June 2013
The Victorian Art of Hair Jewellery: a workshop with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann

14th June 2013
The History of Memento Mori and Death's Head Iconography: Part two of the "Hairy Secrets" series

15th June 2013
The Victorian Art of Hair Jewellery: a workshop with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann


16th June 2013
The Victorian Art of Hair Jewellery: a workshop with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann

17th June 2013
The Victorian Love Affair with Death and the Art of Mourning Hair Jewellery: Part Three of the "Hairy Secrets" series

18th June 2013

Dissection and Witchcraft: Images of Corpses in Early
Modern Art with Constanza Isaza Martinez


19th June 2013
Book Launch: The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare

20th June 2013

Future Death, Future Dead Bodies, and Future Cemeteries with Dr John Troyer


21st June 2013
Mouse Taxidermy with Shannon Harmon

23rd June 2013
'She Healed Their Bodies with her Hot White Passions': The Role of the Nurse in Romantic Fiction with Natasha McEnroe


24th June 2013
Face lift or reconstruction? Redesigning Amsterdam's anatomical museum, the Vrolik


25th June 2013
The walking dead of 1803 with Phil Loring

26th June 2013
Influencing Machines with Mike Jay

27th June 2013
A Waxen France: Madame Tussaud's Representations of the French with Patricia Philbeam

28th June 2013
Backstage Tour of the Zoological Collection of the Natural History Museum with Miranda Lowe

29th June 2013

Bat in Glass Dome Workshop: Part of a DIY Wunderkammer Series

30th June 2013
Bat in Glass Dome Workshop: Part of a DIY Wunderkammer Series

JULY

5th July 2013
Mouse Taxidermy with Shannon Harmon

9th July 2013
The Coming of Age of the Danse Macabre on the Verge of the Industrial Age with Alexander L Bieri

10th July 2013
Viva La Muerte: The Mushrooming Cult of Saint Death

15th July 2013
From Blue Beads to Hair Sandwiches: Edward Lovett and London's Folk Medicine

18th July 2013
The Vampires of London: A Cinematic Survey with William Fowler and Mark Pilkington

24th July 2013
"Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: a Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games" Screenings of Short Films from the BFI Folk Film Archives with William Fowler


25th July 2013
Of Satyrs, Horses, and Camels: Imaginative Natural History

28th July 2013
Mouse Taxidermy with Shannon Harmon