Events calendar

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Displays (5)

5 displays matching the date future

Double Take: Versions and Copies of Tudor Portraits

26 June - 9 September 2012
Room 2
Free
This display brings together five pairs of near identical portraits in order to explore how and why multiple versions and copies of portraits were made in the sixteenth century.

Olympic Encounters in 1908

29 May 2012 - 15 January 2013
Room 25: case display
Free
Sport and Politics: Photographs by Benjamin Stone of the American Olympic team visiting the House of Commons in July 1908.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912

17 July 2012 - 17 March 2013
Room 29 case display
Free
Voted among 100 Great Black Britons, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a composer and conductor whose choral trilogy Hiawatha was popular through to the 1940s. This display marks the centenary of his premature death at 37.

On Paper: Portraits of Writers

27 June 2012 - 1 February 2013
Room 38a
Free
The display highlights the material common ground of both artist and writer: the sketchpad or notebook upon which the creative process begins.

Poetry of Motion

27 June - 1 November 2012
Rooms 37 and 37a
Free
Poetry of Motion includes some of the most ambitious works from the Contemporary Collection: of athletes and Olympians, dancers and choreographers.