• Type: None
• Web Address: https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/events
• Organising department: History of Science Museum

Saturday 12 January 2019 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Family Friendly: What did the Victorians know about the moving image? Find out and make your own magical movie toy
  Drop-in, ages 7+
  Not applicable

Saturday 19 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Tour: Join our Multaka tour guides for tours in Arabic and English that explore instruments from the Islamic World.
  Ages 8+
  Not applicable

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Evening Talk: Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist
  Professor Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Evening Talk: The Art of Old Age
  Dr María del Pilar Blanco (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Family Friendly: Chinese Dragon Fire-Clocks
  Drop-in, ages 7+, materials donation £3
  Not applicable

Saturday 2 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Family Friendly: Women in Science
  Drop-in, all ages
  Not applicable

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Special Event: A Million Memories
  Various Speakers

Saturday 16 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Family Friendly: Lovelace’s Labyrinth
  Drop-in, all ages
  Not applicable

Saturday 23 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Tour: Multaka-Oxford
  All ages
  Not applicable

Thursday 11 April 2019 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Talk: Science fictions
  Professor Rob Iliffe (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Family friendly: Fabulous fundials
  TBA

Saturday 27 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Special event: Marconi Day
  TBA

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Special event: Knight at the Museum (D&D)
  TBA

Saturday 11 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Family friendly: Drawing with camera obscuras
  TBA

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Special event: Art rocks
  TBA

Saturday 18 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Special event: Set in stone?
  TBA
• 13:00 - Family friendly: House of Wisdom
  TBA

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Talk: Redefining measurement
  Professor Graham Machin (National Physical Laboratory)

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Family friendly: Ahoy there!
  TBA

Saturday 15 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Family friendly: What is this thing called an astrolabe?
  TBA

Saturday 22 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Special event: Heads up!
  TBA

Thursday 27 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Talk: 250 years of weather in Oxford
  Stephen Burt (University of Reading)

Saturday 29 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Multaka-Oxford tours
  TBA

Saturday 6 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Family friendly: Alice’s Day: adventures in time
  TBA

Thursday 18 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Talk: Apollo 11: the inside story
  David Whitehouse

Saturday 20 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Family friendly: One giant leap
  TBA

Friday 16 August 2019 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Family friendly: Send a message SOS
  TBA

Friday 30 August 2019 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Family friendly: Elementary!
  TBA
• 14:00 - Family friendly: Elementary!
  TBA

Saturday 14 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Tours: Made in Oxford
  TBA

Sunday 15 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Tours: Made in Oxford
  TBA

Thursday 19 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Talk: The unlikely history of radium
  Lucy Jane Santos

Saturday 21 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Family friendly: Cabinet of curiosities
  N/A

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Oxford Instruments: Past, Present and Future
  Ziad Melhem (Oxford Instruments), Ben Knott (Oxford Instruments)

Tuesday 21 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - From Quadrant and Cross Staff to Clock and Compass: How technology launched the age of European exploration
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Cory Richards (National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and photographer), Roger Michel (Institute for Digital Archaeology Executive Director)

Sunday 3 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - About Time: One Passion. A World of Histories
  Dr Sumner Braund (History of Science Museum, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 April 2024 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:15 - April Fakes Day: F for Fake
  Professor Patricia Kingori (University of Oxford), Dr Andrew Dunning (Curator of Medieval Manuscript, Bodleian Libraries), Dr JC Niala (Head of Research, Teaching and Collections, History of Science Museum)