What's on
There is always something happening at the Museum - temporary exhibits, family events, holiday activities and concerts; this page lists what is coming up in our diary.
Museum diary
- 150th Anniversary Lecture Series
Wednesday 20 October - Sir David Attenborough: Birds of Paradise
Wednesday 27 October - Professor Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry
Wednesday 3 November - Professor Richard Fortey: The Life and Death of Trilobites
Wednesday 10 November - Professor Dame Kay Davies: Muscular dystrophy in the new genetic era
Wednesday 17 November - Dr George McGavin: An inordinate fondness for beetles
Tickets will be available online from the Oxford University website from 20th September
5pm in the Museum Lecture Theatre
- Name a species - Exhibition and Competition
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Natural
England and the Guardian launched a competition to give common
names to a number of endangered species. An exhibition with photographs of the ten species is now showing at the
Museum. Click below to discover the winning names and the runners up.
Competition winners
- Ghost Forest - Exhibition
A group of huge primary rainforest tree stumps, most with their buttress roots intact, is installed on the lawn in front of the Museum.The 'Ghost Forest' is a project by artist Angela Palmer, and is intended to highlight the impacts of worldwide deforestation on the earth's climate, biodiversity and the livelihood of indigenous populations.
Ghost Forest
6th July 2010 - July 2011
- A wonderland of natural history:
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History 1860-2010 - Exhibition
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History 1860-2010 - Exhibition
Contemporary documents, photographs and engravings trace the campaign to build the Museum as a home for Oxford science, the subsequent architectural competition, and the construction of the building between 1855 and 1860. The sculptures, carvings, stone and metalwork are explored through the drawings and words of John Ruskin, Henry Acland and others. Images record the evolution of the art, architecture and displays throughout the history of this remarkable temple to science.
24th April - 31st December 2010
- Exceptional fossils from Chengjiang, China - Exhibition
These exceptional fossils are 525 million years old, and bear witness to one of the most important benchmarks in the history of life on Earth, the Cambrian 'explosion' event. This event heralded the first appearance in the fossil record of most of the major animal groups that make up global marine biodiversity today.
Fool's gold holds fossil treasure
17th May - 14th November 2010
- Insect Spectacle - Family friendly event
Come along today and enjoy our fantastic insect collection with handling tables and experts from the Amateur Entomological Society.
Saturday 11th September, 1 - 4pm, drop-in
- Museum Stories and Secrets - Family friendly event
Come along and celebrate our 150th birthday. Discover lost tales and museum secrets, with real museum specimens to handle.
Saturday 25th September, 1 - 4pm, drop-in
- Family friendly fun
Borrow a backpack full of activities especially designed for families.
Every Sunday at the Museum, 2 - 4pm
Enquiries regarding events at the Museum should be sent to: info@oum.ox.ac.uk
