Museum of Water Events
Festival de Keuze, Rotterdam
Friday 25 September – Sunday 27 September
Festival de Keuze, Rotterdam
Museum of Water has been invited to Festival de Keuze in Rotterdam, to begin an exciting year-long programme of Museum of Water collecting in Rotterdam. Read more
Coastal Currents, Hastings
Saturday 29 August – Monday 31 August 2015
Fisherman’s Studio, Hastings
Museum of Water is coming to Hastings, as part of the Coastal Currents festival. Read more
Big Green Week, Bristol
Friday 19 – Sunday 21 June 2015
Bristol Lab Space, Canon’s Road, Bristol, BS1 5TX
Museum of Water has been invited to Bristol to celebrateFRANK Water’s 10th Birthday and Bristol’s Big Green Week. Read more
Behaviour Festival, Glasgow
Friday 17 April – Monday 21 April
Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0UE
Situated in Glasgow Botanic Gardens as part of the Arches’ Behaviour festival of essential live performance. Read more
Canalside Festival, Chisenhale Dance Space
22 March
Chisenhale Dance Space, 64-84 Chisenhale Road, London, E3 5QZ
To celebrate World Water Day, Museum of Water will return to London as part of Chisenhale Dance Space’s Canalside Festival. Read more
The Storey Institute, Lancaster
6-8 & 20-22 February 2015
Live at LICA, The Storey Institute, Lancaster
Museum of Water returns to Lancaster for two weekends at The Storey Institute, presented by Live at LICA. Read more
Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa
30 January 2015
Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa
The talk will chart the beginnings of the project and its links with the bicentenary of John Snow and his disease mappings, and showcase a choice few of the 600 donations currently in the Museum of Water. Read more
Curating Cambridge
Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 November
Grand Arcade, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3BJ
Museum of Water will be showing at Cambridge’s Grand Arcade shopping centre as part of Curating Cambridge; a five week festival of exhibitions and events.
Fierce Festival, Birmingham
10 – 12 October 2014
Moseley Road Baths, Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham B12 9BX
Museum of Water visits Fierce international festival of live art, sited in Moseley’s beautiful Grade II listed swimming baths.
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Festival of Thrift, Darlington
27-28 September 2014
Lingfield Point, Darlington, County Durham, DL1 1RW
Museum of Water will be showing at Dartington’s Festival of Thrift, the UK’s only national celebration of sustainable living. Read more
Vadehavs Festival, Denmark
4-7 September 2014
Barrels Tourist Office, Store Street 2, 6270 Barrels
Museum of Water will be showing as part of “Wadden Tide”, Vadehavs Festival’s new large international project, celebrating the Wadden Sea’s nature and culture through contemporary art. Read more
Somerset House
London
6-29 June 2014
As part of LIFT 2014, Somerset House opened their doors for a rare look at the inside workings of Museum of Water. Read more
‘Roman Bath’
Friday 6 – Sunday 29 June, times tbc
5 Strand Lane, London WC2R 2NA
The National Trust’s ‘Roman Bath’, on the King’s College London Strand Campus, will be open to the public every day during the run of Museum of Water. Read more
Food, water via land and climate (Professor Tim Benton)
Thursday 26 June, 18.00 – 19.30
Screening Room, Somerset House South Wing, London WC2R 1LA
In this talk, Tim Benton will outline some of the broad-brush issues and highlight some of the connections between water and food systems. Read more
Screening: SWIM
Tuesday 24 June, 19.00 – 20.00
Screening Room, Somerset House South Wing, London WC2R 1LA
On 12 July 2007, 50 people donned swimming costumes and swam across London; from Tooting Bec Lido to Hampstead Heath – with a Routemaster bus for all the dry land in between.
Thames Baths Project: Re-introducing swimming in the Thames (Chris Romer-Lee)
Tuesday 24 June, 13.00 – 13.45
Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, London WC2R 2LS
Imagine swimming in the River Thames, surrounded by reeds that frame tantalising views of the city around you. The Thames Baths are not just for swimmers, but provide refuge and habitat for fish, birds and a wide range of flora. This is the river like you’ve never seen it before. Read more
The Drain Brain (Sir Peter Bazalgette)
Monday 23 June at 18.30
Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS
Peter Bazalgette – Great-great-grandson of Victorian civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, will talk about his ancestor’s achievements, and share images and objects with the audience, followed by a Q&A session. Read more
Midsummer Water Day
Saturday 21 June, 12.00 – 18.00
Various spaces in Somerset House and Kings College
Celebrate Midsummers’ Day with this very special afternoon of talks, events, installations, screenings, family workshops and singing. Read more
Amy Sharrocks in Conversation
Wednesday 18 June, 19.00 – 20.30
The Screening Room, Somerset House South Wing, London WC2R 1LA
Artist Amy Sharrocks talks to Lucy Neal and discusses her unusual relationship with water. Read more
Water and the evolution of the human diet (Professor Stanley Ulijaszek)
Tuesday 17 June, 13.00 – 13.45
Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, London WC2R 2LS
A talk describing the many ways in which water is implicated in the human diet: if we are what we eat, what we eat and how we eat is shaped by water. Read more