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@ucl Art Museum is home to the university’s collection of over 10,000 sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings from the 1490s to the present day.

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Some snaps from our tour of the @uclartmuseum collection!

Look forward to more from our tour of the Institute of Archaeology’s collection this afternoon :) taken in UCL Art Museum by @uclartmuseum

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19 days ago

Welcome to UCL! We are home to over 10,000 sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings from the 1490s to the present day. Visit us and explore our collections. Sculptures at the UCL Art Museum. by @uclartmuseum

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21 days ago

Spotted in the Student Centre! In honour of #UCL200, @uclartmuseum Curator Lucy Waitt recently dressed up as Jeremy Bentham and delivered some immersive teaching to UCL Museum Studies students. Curator Lucy Waitt dressed up as Jeremy Bentham and sitting on a chair at the Student Centre. taken in University College London by @uclartmuseum

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8 months ago

Amongst Visions celebrates the life and work of Slade School of Fine Art (@sladeschool) alumna Frances Jennings. See the research of PhD student and artist Holly Davey on display on Wednesdays until 1 April.

Link in bio for more information. A display at the UCL Art Museum. by @uclartmuseum

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9 months ago

Here at the Culture Lab, we work with UCL academics interested in turning their research ideas into public exhibitions. One such collaboration earlier this year was with Elettra Carbone, Associate Professor in Norwegian Studies at @uclselcs

Using artworks mostly from UCL Art Museum @uclartmuseum as starting points, Elettra curated a small pop-up exhibition on the Power of Language, in which she revealed some surprising insights on how language and culture are linked.

Read more about the display by following the link in our bio: Explore the Power of Language in the Culture Lab.

Image 1: Elettra Carbone.

The inspiration for The Power of Language came from Elettra’s previous exhibition Not Just Words: Learning Languages through Art and Objects (UCL Art Museum, January 2023-September 2024). The exhibition featured 13 short language taster videos, which took artworks from UCL’s Collection as their starting point while encouraging visitors to learn some of the basics in several languages.

Image 2: Map of London by Franz Hogenburg, 1572. (UCL Art Museum, LDUCS-4787[SB2])

Based on the Icelandic video language taster created by Dr Helga Luthersdottir, Elettra paired a birds-eye map of London from 1572 with an extract from Jón Ólafsson’s memoirs, an Icelandic visitor to London in 1615. Coming from a country with no cities, towns, or even villages and seeing London for the first time, Jón lists the places he sailed past, sometimes using Icelandic terms where available and creating new ones where needed.

Image 3: A postcard displaying Panorama of Madrid with plan of Barcelona and map of Cadiz, by Georg Paul Busch, 18th century. (UCL Art Museum, LDUCS-3561)

In a world where AI is increasingly able to produce linguistically advanced translations, the display pointed to the important fact that language is not just words. Elettra invited some of her students to write postcards to friends they met during their year abroad creating connections between the images on the postcards – which represent past traditions of travel to Europe or cultural trends – and their own experiences. by @uclartmuseum

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10 months ago

Holly Davey, the artist and PhD student behind Amongst Visions, talks about her research into Slade alumna Frances Jennings and the importance of shining a light on the artistic contributions of women artists.

Read more about the two-part interview via link in bio. Artworks in the UCL Art Museum, part of the Amongst Visions display. taken in UCL by @uclartmuseum

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a year ago

Amongst Visions showcases the work and research of PhD student and artist Holly Davey celebrating the life and work of Slade School of Fine Art alumna Frances Jennings. See the display on Wednesdays until 26 November.

Link in bio for more information.

#UCL #Art #Museum Amongst Visions display at the UCL Art Museum. by @uclartmuseum

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a year ago

We’re now open for teaching and research, by appointment. Please contact the curatorial staff at museums@ucl.ac.uk

We are now located in the Prints and Drawings Room, G17 South Wing. Find out more via link in bio (Visitor Information). A person walking through a corridor. There is an artwork on the left side of the corridor with text that reads, UCL Art Museum. taken in UCL by @uclartmuseum

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a year ago

We’re sad to be closing our doors once again. But rest assured, we will keep things safe and sound and we look forward to welcoming you back as soon as possible. In the meantime you can explore our museums from home: https://bit.ly/3egUTHs #MuseumFromHome by @uclartmuseum

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6 years ago

Now that the rain has stopped, we’re really liking these #autumnal colours in the trees around Bloomsbury. Here’s a bit of seasonal inspiration - ‘Autumn Maple’, Japanese woodblock print, c. 1847-1852.
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#woodblock #japaneseart #autumn #autumnleaves #japanesemaple #printsandpatterns #artgallery #uclmuseums #uclculture #londonmuseums #🍁🍂🍃
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The UCL Art Museum is currently open on Wednesday afternoons for UCL students and staff. Book your free ticket online to see our current exhibition Witnessing Terror: French Revolutionary Prints, 1792-94. by @uclartmuseum

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6 years ago

Due to the evolving coronavirus outbreak and related concerns our UCL museums are currently closed and our events and research visits will be cancelled until the end of April 2020. We hope to be open again soon and our decision will be guided by the Government’s public health advice.
#coronavirus #staysafe #uclculture taken in UCL Art Museum by @uclartmuseum

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7 years ago

Now open! ‘Witnessing Terror: French Revolutionary Prints, 1792-94’ in the UCL Art Museum.
Explore a period of the French Revolution known as ‘the Terror’, characterised by a political culture of violence when public executions were rife.
Entry is free, open 1pm - 5pm on Tues - Fri

#ucl #uclculture #uclartmuseum #frenchrevolution #prints taken in UCL Art Museum by @uclartmuseum

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7 years ago