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Otherlands: Museum for a Museum

Exhibition
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19th Jan 2024  -  20th Jan 2024
Free

13:00–17:00 on Friday 19 January (limited entry), 11:00–17:00 on Saturday 20 January.

Drop-in only (limited capacity on Friday due to student groups attending).

An art installation comprised of a large hinged frame with a white feathered object hanging from the centre

Isis [Wife of Osiris, Goddess of protection, good fortune, protector of the dead ] / Osiris [God of the underworld, judge of the dead]. Image © Matei-Alexandru Mitrache

Otherlands: Museum for a Museum is a site-specific exhibition produced by Year 1 BSc students at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

By creatively responding to the collections in the Petrie Museum, the installations take inspiration from 12 ancient Egyptian deities and interrogate themes such as micro-environments, the afterlife, use, immateriality and display.

In this two-day showcase, the students aspire to transform the internal spaces of the Petrie Museum by creating a series of 'other lands' to temporarily insert a museum within a museum. The result is a spectacular metamorphosis of space, inspired by the past and imaginatively conceiving a common future.

Event times

13:00 – 17:00 on Friday (limited entry), 11:00 – 17:00 on Saturday.

Drop-in only (with limited capacity on Friday due to student groups attending)

Acknowledgements

Otherlands: Museum for a Museum is a Bartlett School of Architecture project curated by Year 1 BSc students and lecturers, in partnership with the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, part of UCL Museums and Cultural Programmes.

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