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If you’d like to… ... see the past brought to life, you might like… Longitude Punk’d, p. 8 Music of the Sea, p. 22 n Nelson, Navy, Nation, p. 6 n Meet Captain Woodget or James Robson on board Cutty Sark, p. 21 n n
... bring all the family, you might like… The Great Map, p. 6 A place called home…summer family fun, p. 18 n Giant rhyme-athon, p. 18 n Child sailors archive event, p. 25 n Cutty Sark family fun, p. 20 n n
... visit after hours, you might like… Dark and stormy Late, p. 14 tour of War and Memory, p. 16 n Library Lates, p. 25 n Meridian Time Breach, p. 24 n
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... learn something new, you might like… Ships, Clocks and Stars: the Quest for Longitude, p. 5 Gateways to the First World War, p. 17 n The Whale: an exploration, p. 22 n Maritime Lectures Series: The Art and Science of Exploration, p. 22 n Longitudes examined, p. 14 n n
... get behind the scenes, you might like… Open House at the Queen’s House, p. 12 Behind the scenes of Ships, Clocks and Stars, p. 15 n Cutty Sark curator’s tours, p. 23 n Gallery tours of War and Memory and War Artists at Sea, p. 16 – 17 n n
Bottom left: ‘The Kongouro from New Holland’, by George Stubbs (1772), National Maritime Museum. Acquired with the assistance of Heritage Lottery Fund; Eyal Ofer Family Foundation; The Monument Trust; The Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation); The Crosthwaite Bequest; The Sackler Trust; Sir Harry Djanogly CBE; The Hartnett Conservation Trust; Sheila Richardson and Anthony Nixon; The Leathersellers’ Company; Gapper Charitable Trust; Genevieve Muinzer and others. Centre right: For Alice Hunter, by Rozanne Hawksley, 2003; photograph by Philip Clarke; collection of the artist.
Introduction with a new gallery ‘Forgotten Fighters’, research days, tours, and poignant displays in the Queen’s House of War Artists at Sea and contemporary installations by Rozanne Hawksley. Finally we round off the summer in September with a truly spectacular maritime celebration, the Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival, London’s largest tall-ships event in 25 years. Join us between 5 – 9 September for performances, workshops and tours, and special events on board Cutty Sark.
Summer 2014 is an exciting one for Royal Museums Greenwich, as we mark the 300th anniversary of the passing of the Longitude Act in July 1714 with a landmark season of exhibitions, art displays, events, planetarium shows and film screenings. The centrepiece of the season is our major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks and Stars: the Quest for Longitude — an exciting exploration of the world’s then biggest scientific challenge, dramatically recounting the inspired inventions and personal rivalries involved. AA D a quirkier F A angle to the story, M Bringing the Royal Observatory has7+been11+transformed AA 5+ 0-5 6+ 12+ 8+ 15+ by Steampunk artists in Longitude Punk’d; AA while the Queen’s House mounts an D exceptional exhibition of art inspired by D D F James Cook’s voyages, including the Stubbs AA 5+ masterpieces saved for the nation through AA 5+ AA 5+ 0-5 our acquisition campaign last year.
Don’t miss a brilliant variety of summer events bringing longitude to life — from AA conferences, tours, and intriguing ‘Late’ events, to a Steampunk summer fete, and Steampunk Tea Museum at the Cutty Sark. 2014 is of course another anniversary, the centenary of the beginning of the First World War, which we are commemorating
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A whole day out at Royal Museums Greenwich Suggested itineraries for all the family The sea and her travellers Ships and stars
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Explore above and below decks on board Cutty Sark.
Take your younger shipmates to investigate the Children’s Gallery.
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Enjoy a Cutty Sarkinspired cup of tea at the Even Keel Café.
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Explore the world’s biggest scientific challenge in Ships, Clocks and Stars: the Quest for Longitude.
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See how the sea has inspired other worldclass art at the Queen’s House, including the thought-provoking War and Memory by Rozanne Hawksley.
Get discounted admission to Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory and special exhibition Ships, Clocks and Stars, with the Big Ticket. Ask at Become admissions desks a Member to revisit as much for details.
Make your way to the National Maritime Museum and up the hill to the Royal Observatory: take your photo on the Prime Meridian, visit the Astronomer Royal’s apartments, and spot the Yuri Gagarin statue.
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Delve into the weird and wonderful world of Longitude Punk’d as Steampunk artists take over the Observatory with their inventions’
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NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM Inspirational stories of exploration and endeavour Discover the world’s largest maritime museum at the heart of Maritime Greenwich, filled with inspirational D at F stories of exploration and endeavour sea. Packed to the gunwales with intriguing objects and fascinating AA 5+ 0-5 galleries; from personal accounts in ‘Voyagers’ to trade with the exotic East in ‘Traders’, and the award-winning ‘Nelson, Navy, Nation’. Experience a changing programme of blockbuster exhibitions and find plenty for the younger shipmates in the Children’s Gallery, Great Map, and regular family activities.
Explore Britain’s identity as an island and its relationship with the rest of the world linked by the sea; encounter great A M pioneers, explorers and trail-blazing fierce battles and dramatic shipwrecks, naval ordinary 6+ heroes 7+ and 11+ 12+ landlubbers, 8+ 15+ all connecting Britain’s maritime past with our lives today. The Museum is fully accessible to wheelchair users. Wheelchairs can also be borrowed from the information desk on the day of your visit.
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Longitude Season at the National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum | 11 July 2014 – 4 January 2015 Discover how the critical problem of finding where you were at sea preoccupied the greatest minds of the 17th and 18th centuries; explore the ideas that went into solving the world’s biggest challenge, the rewards and prestige at stake, and how the science involved still affects our lives today. Not being able to pinpoint where you were at sea posed a huge problem to sailors, traders and navigators for centuries, prolonging voyages, wrecking ships and costing lives. The Longitude Act, passed in July 1714, set the scene for a race of enormous importance, with the top scientific minds of the age pitted against each other to solve the ‘unsolvable’, developing scientific ideas that still influence technology today. Delve through this landmark exhibition into a dramatic story of invention and intrigue, which captured the imaginations and talents of astronomers, skilled artisans, politicians, seamen and satirists.
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Open late on Thursdays until 20.00 Encounter a roll call of famous figures, from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Captain Cook, William Bligh and John Harrison. Explore their ingenious methods and instruments, follow their rivalries and personal stories, and consider just how much we owe them today. #WhereonEarth rmg.co.uk/longitude Tickets: £8.50 adults | £7 concessions £3 children (5 – 15) family tickets available Includes admission to Ships, Clocks and Stars, the Royal Observatory, and Longitude Punk’d. Gift Aid: this price includes a voluntary donation; tickets excluding this donation are also available. More information on p. 27
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National Maritime Museum Galleries and Displays Guiding Lights: 500 years of Trinity House and safety at sea Until January 2016 | Free A new display showcasing the invaluable work of the Corporation of Trinity House in helping mariners navigate safely at sea. Explore rarely seen objects and discover stories of the heroic and the extraordinary from throughout the organization’s history, as well as its future in modern seafaring. D F AA
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Explore the world on The Great Map Discover the Museum’s largest open space brought to life with a huge interactive world map. Where will you visit and what will you discover? Don’t forget to tag us in your journeys across the world. D F A rmg.co.uk/thegreatmap #greatmap AA
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ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH Stand at the centre of world time Discover the past, present and future wonders of astronomy at the centre of time. Take an amazing journey through the historic home of British astronomy, Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the World. Explore how great scientists first mapped the seas and the stars, stand astride two hemispheres on the Prime Meridian Line, see pioneering inventions and the UK’s largest refracting telescope, touch a 4.5 billion year-old asteroid, and travel the Universe at London’s only planetarium. Find out more at rmg.co.uk/observatory
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Longitude Season at the Royal Observatory Longitude Punk’d Royal Observatory Greenwich | Until 4 January 2015 Free with your Royal Observatory ticket Delve into the weird and wonderful world of Longitude Punk’d, where sci-fi collides with 18th-century innovation; an immersive experience never tried before, in the last place you would expect to see it… Steampunk artists have taken over the ‘Time’ galleries at the Royal Observatory, creating a lavishly re-imagined story of the pursuit for longitude. Bursting with quirky characters, this witty, theatrical, and fabulously inventive narrative reinterprets the science and the drama of the 18th-century quest, bringing to life madcap inventors, star-gazing scientists and extremely elegant explorers of the past. Let these characters take you on an adventure into a world where scientific convention and the laws of nature have been re-written, and where the steampunk inventors are the greatest minds of the day
striving to solve the longitude problem. Discover specially created pieces large and small by Steampunk luminaries including Robert Rankin, Doctor Geof, Emilly Ladybird and Major Thaddeus Tinker, as they take over the historic rooms of Flamsteed House and spill out into the Meridian Courtyard, exuberantly blurring the boundaries between art and science, fact and fiction. #WhereonEarth rmg.co.uk/longitudepunkd
Stars to Satellites Until 31 August 2014 Royal Observatory Greenwich Free Explore the history of satellite navigation, from its origins in stargazing and science fiction, to the launch of the satellites forming the European ‘Galileo’ navigation system over the next six years. Discover the links and legacies between astronomy, longitude and satellites, bringing the longitude story into the 21st century as we consider how ‘SatNav’ has changed the world. D F A M #WhereonEarth AA
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Steampunk film screenings Science-fiction and steampunk-themed film screenings in the Peter Harrison Planetarium at the Royal Observatory. See p. 24 for details.
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Peter Harrison Planetarium
Experience the wonders of space and time at London’s only planetarium, with shows for all ages. See the stars and visit distant worlds in live shows presented
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Planetarium shows Back to the Moon for Good
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It’s been more than forty years since anyone has visited the Moon. This exciting new show from NSC Creative at the Leicester Space Centre explores the dream of returning to the Moon and the role Lunar D of F the A$20-million Google M XPRIZE in making this dream a reality. AA 5+D 0-5F 6+A 7+ 11+ 12+M 8+ 15+
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Explore the night sky and find out live from a Royal Observatory astronomer D F what’s visible on the day of your visit and the month ahead, plus the chance to ask questions. This season AA the 5+show0-5 links to our Stars to Satellites display with information on artificial satellites D F A and navigation. NEW 26 July, 10.00 — earlyAAmorning 5+ 0-5 6+ showing for children and D young F people A with Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) and their families.AA 5+D 0-5F 6+A 7+ 11+
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CUTTY SARK Discover one of the world’s most famous ships Venture aboard and beneath one of the world’s most famous ships; the last surviving tea clipper, the speed machine of her time and living testimony to the bygone, glorious days of sail. Built in 1869 to carry tea back from China, she visited nearly every major port and gained fame for her record-breaking passages around the globe. Designed to last just 30 years and now nearly five times that age, Cutty Sark has been painstakingly conserved and lifted by over three metres, allowing you to explore her decks and gaze up under her hull in an immersive experience that brings her fascinating history to life.
Delve into the adventures of Cutty Sark and her crew: explore the cargo spaces and walk in the footsteps of those who sailed her, explore interactive displays that evoke the sights, smells and sounds of life at sea, and walk right underneath the hull to touch a piece of history. For further information or to book visit rmg.co.uk/cuttysark
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Tickets Gift Aid price £13.50 Concessions £11.50 | Children £7 Family tickets available These prices include a voluntary donation; tickets excluding this donation are also available. Members For more information and see p. 27.
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16 July – 30 September | Cutty Sark The history of tea you didn’t know existed — see p. 23.
Cutty Sark podcasts Find out more about Cutty Sark’s adventures in our ‘Voyages’ podcast series which can be listened to at bit.ly/cuttysarkvoyages
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THE QUEEN’S HOUSE A world-class art collection in a world-class setting
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Explore the art treasures that now hang here, forming the most important collection of maritime art in the world and one of the largest collections of British portraiture, with inspirational works by A MTurner, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Hogarth and the van de Veldes, as well as powerful war art and thought-provoking 6+ 7+ 11+ 12+ 8+ 15+ contemporary installations.
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This beautiful royal villa, designed by Inigo Jones and completed around 1638 for Charles I’s queen, Henrietta Maria, houses an internationally renowned collection of paintings within a jewel of architectural design. Designed as England’s first truly classical building, Inigo Jones’s Palladian masterpiece features the elegant Tulip Stairs and the magnificent Great Hall, a perfect 40-foot cube, and boasts a fascinating chequered history from royal pleasure palace to naval school.
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Open House London 20 – 21 September | 11.00 – 16.30 | Free The Queen’s House takes part in the annual Open House weekend with special architectural tours of the building and spotlight talks on displays throughout the day. D F A M AA
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Longitude Season at the Queen’s House The Art and Science of Exploration 1768 – 80
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From 7 August 2014 The Queen’s House | Free Imagine seeing an animal as remarkable as a kangaroo for the very first time. When Captain Cook’s first voyage to the South Pacific returned to Britain in 1771, he brought back accounts and images of extraordinary lands, peoples, flora and fauna. Explore for yourself this strange new world through exceptional paintings, prints and drawings by artists from all D F three of Cook’s voyages, including theA Museum’s newly-acquired paintings of a 7+ AA 5+ 0-5 6+ kangaroo and dingo by George Stubbs, saved for the nation last year through a major public fundraising appeal. D F A Find out more at AA 5+ 0-5 rmg.co.uk/artscienceexploration
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‘The Kongouro from New Holland’, by George Stubbs (1772), National Maritime Museum. Acquired with the assistance of Heritage Lottery Fund; Eyal Ofer Family Foundation; The Monument Trust; The Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation); The Crosthwaite Bequest; The Sackler Trust; Sir Harry Djanogly CBE; The Hartnett Conservation Trust; Sheila Richardson and Anthony Nixon; The Leathersellers’ Company; Gapper Charitable Trust; Genevieve Muinzer and others.
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Ships, Clocks and Stars events Gallery tours Every Thursday and Sunday from 20 July Thursdays 17.00 | 18.00 | 19.00 Sundays 14.00 | 15.00 Guided tours of the exhibition. Approx. 20 minutes. Included in exhibition entry price; spaces limited. With thanks to the Flamsteed Astronomy Society.
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Special gallery talks throughout the day marking the tercentenary of the passing of the Longitude Act.
A Second in a Hundred Days Saturday 12 July 10.00 – 17.00 £45, £35 Members NMM Lecture Theatre Limited capacity D F A M Join us for a day conference on AA John Harrison’s quest for timekeeping AA 5+ 0-5 6+ 7+ 11+ 12+ on land, with special guest speaker Dava Sobel, author of the best-selling novel, Longitude. D F A
Thursday 24 July | 18.00 – 21.00 £5, £4 Members Dangerous waters flow around our coastline, concealing shallow rocks and treacherous sandbanks. Have you got the skills to navigate your way out of danger or will you get lost in the museum? Join us for an off-kilter evening to celebrate Ships, Clocks and Stars and Guiding Lights, including the ‘Motley Cruise’ game for grown-ups, the launch of sci-fi anthology ‘Irregularity’, gallery D Ftours, A curators on M the gangplank and the eponymous cocktails. 5+ 0-5 6+ 7+ 11+ 12+ 8+ 15+ 16+ 3+ 8+ 15+ Ticket 16+ 3+ includes entry to Ships, Clocks and Stars, and for members a free glass of wine. D F A M M
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Telescopes Tuesday 12 August | 14.00 – 15.00 £12, £10 Members Royal Observatory With curator Louise Devoy.
GPS Drawing and Mapping Workshop
Opposite: John Harrison’s marine timekeeper H4, 1759, National Maritime Museum / Ministry of Defence Art Collection. Above top: Sextant c. 1785, National Maritime Museum / Adams Collection. Above: Marine chronometer 2Day (1895) no.4501 by A. Johannsen & Co. Right: Night telescope, J.Dollond & Son, 1833.
Sunday 3 and 10 August 10.00 – 13.00 | 14.00 – 17.00 £10 (including exhibition entry) Meet at the Sammy Ofer Wing information desk Challenge your spatial awareness and navigational skills by turning yourself into a human paintbrush and ‘walking your chosen design’ onto Greenwich Park. With artist and mapmaker Jeremy Wood. D F A AA
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Commemoration of the First World War At the Queen’s House… Rozanne Hawksley: War and Memory
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and memorialization of war, considering the impact of conflict on combatants, family, friends and ultimately the nation. This War and Memory exhibition, mounted to commemorate the centenary of the beginning of the First World War, examines representation and remembrance in the fitting setting of the Queen’s House, which was once a school educating boys for joining the Navy. The installation features new work alongside pieces from throughout Hawksley’s acclaimed career, including ‘Seamstress and the Sea’, inspired by the artist’s grandmother who sewed sailors’ collars for a living during D F A M and between both World Wars; also ‘Prisoner’, a 12+ 8+ AA a sculpture 5+ 0-5 created 6+ 7+ as11+ response to the work of the photographer Don McCullin, plus works from the ‘Memorials’ series. D F A M rmg.co.uk/rozannehawksley AA 5+ 0-5 6+ 7+ 11+ 12+ 8+ #RozHawksley
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Candlelit tour of War D F and A Memory M Thursday 25 September | 19.00 – 20.00 5+ 0-5 6+ 7+ 11+ 12+ 8+ £10, AA £7 Members and concessions Intimate evening tour of the exhibition as darkness falls. D F A 5+ 0-5 6+ 7+ 11+ To find out moreAAabout Contemporary Arts at Royal Museums Greenwich visit rmg.co.uk/contemporaryarts
Main: Pale Armistice: in death only are we united, by Rozanne Hawksley, 1987; photograph by Brian Hawksley; collection of the 15+ 16+ 3+ Embroiderers Guild. Above left: For Alice Hunter, by Rozanne Hawksley, 2003; photograph by Philip Clarke; collection of the artist. Above right: ‘We Jolly Sailor Boys’: Remembering (detail), by Rozanne Hawksley, 2003; photograph by Philip Clarke, courtesy of 15+ 16+ 3+ Ruthin Craft Centre; collection of the artist.
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Set sail for a summer of family events all about ships, sailing and the sea! Learn sailor skills with the ship’s cook and captain, practise sending coded messages with flags, and don’t miss our special Look out programme of for family-fun events for the weekends on the first weekend of Royal Greenwich each month! Tall Ships Festival. Free family trails available every day. Admission charges to Cutty Sark apply; activities FREE with entry.
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Saturday 20 September Tall Ships Festival 10.00 – 18.00 NMM Lecture Theatre Friday 5 – Sunday 9 September £10, £7 Members This September the Royal Borough of and concessions Greenwich hosts London’s largest A unique day event investigating and tall-ships event in 25 years, with up to celebrating one of the ocean’s most 50 of the most spectacular tall ships in captivating and mysterious residents, in the world racing to Greenwich from the company of award-winning writers, Falmouth and docking here for a artists, film-makers and specialists in festival weekend of nautical activities. whale studies and conservation. Join us to Royal Museums Greenwich will be consider the challenges facing current D F A M joining the celebrations with activities whale populations while also tracking including music performances, their enduring presence in0-5 literature, film11+ 12+ installations, AA 5+ 6+ 7+ 8+ 15+ 16+ workshops 3+ and guided and music. tours. Check rmg.co.uk for further Curated and presented by Jessica Sarah programme details as they are published. Rinland and Gareth Evans. DLimited F A M capacity AA
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Doctor Geof’s Fantastical Steampunk Tea Museum Wednesday 16 July – Tuesday 30 September Sammy Ofer Gallery, Cutty Sark Drink tea? Love tea? Have a slightly unnatural obsession with the sepiacoloured brew of the gods? Then come along to sample Doctor Geof’s Fantastical Steampunk Tea Museum. Linking with Longitude Punk’d at the Royal Observatory, Doctor Geof (one of the exhibiting artists) showcases weird and wonderful curios and memorabilia to bring you the history of tea you didn’t know existed! Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 August Truly committed tea fans can test the strength of their brew in an enlistment fair for the little-known, but highly prized, First Tea Company, and quiz Doctor Geof on the provenance of his many tea-based artefacts.
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Come aboard London’s very own tall ship, Cutty Sark, for a packed programme of activities throughout the Tall Ships Festival weekend. Meet the ship’s most daring captain, the man who built Cutty Sark, and the ship’s figurehead Nannie, brought to life to tell you their incredible stories of life at sea. Bring the whole family to our ‘Tiny Tall Ships’ workshop and make your own mini-ship underneath Cutty Sark’s spectacular hull (see pages 19 – 20). Watch a team of riggers furling sails aloft and catch shanty singers by twilight up on deck. Later opening hours across the Festival — check rmg.co.uk for details.
Curator’s tours Thursdays 17 July and 18 September (BSL interpreted) 15.00 – 16.00 £17 (including admission to ship) £13.50 Members and concessions Join curator Jessica Lewis for a tour of Cutty Sark. Originally designed to last just 30 years, the famous ship is now nearly five times that age. Come and D discover the secrets ofFCuttyASark’s success andAA learn5+about the6+recent 0-5 7+ 11+ conservation project to preserve this beautiful and unique vessel for future generations. D F A AA
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Thursdays 17 July, 14 August and 11 September | 19.00 – 21.00 | £12 Come along in your steampunk finery for a late opening of Longitude Punk’d. Meet one of the exhibition artists, encounter time-travelling Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne and his human computer Mary Edwards and observe Martian goings-on through the splendidly Victorian 18-tonne Great Equatorial Telescope. D F A M AA
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Thursday 28 August | 19.00 – 21.30 Powerfully atmospheric French movie in which a scientist kidnaps children to steal their dreams and prolong his life: steampunk themes in a more modern if somewhat surreal setting. (French with subtitles, cert. 15, 112 minutes).
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7 August Clarkson Stanfield (1793 – 1867): first ‘Greenwich’ curator.
14 August Exploring the world with Thomas Pennant.
28 August Slavery and abolition: a visual reflection.
11 September Nevil Maskelyne — longitude’s champion.
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Shop, Eat, Drink at Royal Museums Greenwich
Delicious & Inspiring
Food and drink
Members enjoy a 10% discount
A selection of fresh food, drinks and snacks can be purchased at the National Maritime Museum Café, PAUL Bakery, Astronomy Café and the Even Keel Café at the Cutty Sark. For the best of contemporary British cuisine and unrivalled views of Greenwich Park, visit The Brasserie, a fully licensed restaurant in the National Maritime Museum. To pre-book a table visit rmg.co.uk/food
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Gifts with a difference
The Museum Shop, Ships, Clocks and Stars Shop, Astronomy and Meridian Shops, and the Cutty Sark Shop, are a treasure-trove of toys, books, clothes, jewellery, tableware, ceramics, clocks and watches — inspired presents for everyone from the budding astronomer or pirate to the discerning bookworm or ship’s captain. Browse gifts online at shop.rmg.co.uk
Information Travel
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Cutty Sark, Zone 2 Greenwich, Zone 2 Greenwich Pier www.tf l.gov.uk 020 7222 1234 Just two stops from London Bridge by train. Limited paid parking available on-site at weekends at Park Row, SE10 9NF. rmg.co.uk/travel
Admission
Access
Admission is free although charges apply to special exhibitions and some events, planetarium shows, Flamsteed House, the Meridian Courtyard and Cutty Sark.
All our venues are accessible with the exception of some areas within the Royal Observatory and Cutty Sark. For access enquiries please call 020 8312 6585 or email access@rmg.co.uk
Booking All tickets can be booked at rmg.co.uk/tickets. If you experience any problems please call our booking line on 020 8312 6608 (09.00 – 16.00) or email bookings@rmg.co.uk
Opening times All venues open daily, 10.00 – 17.00. From 25 July later summer opening hours apply — check rmg.co.uk/latest. Ground floor of National Maritime Museum open until 20.00 every Thursday. Last admission to Royal Observatory, 30 minutes before closing; Cutty Sark, 60 minutes before closing. Check rmg.co.uk/latest before your visit — certain areas may occasionally be closed for events. All images © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, unless otherwise stated. © 2014 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. All information correct at time of print but may be subject to change.
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Calendar JULY Wed 2 Sat 5 Sun 6 Thu 10 Sat 12 Sun 13 Thu 17
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Sat 2 Curator’s tour of War and Memory Fly the flag Fly the flag Ship models in two dimensions A second in a hundred days Finding Longitude book launch Cutty Sark curator’s tour Meridian Time Breach Giant rhyme-athon Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour and special talks Curator’s tour of War Artists at Sea Dark and Stormy Late Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Where the sea meets an island The message Sea sayings Longitudes Examined Where the sea meets an island A sailor’s amazing adventure John Simmonds The Message Longitudes Examined Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Introduction to the Caird Library Where the sea meets an island Legends of the sea John Simmonds Behind the scenes Ships, Clocks and Stars Where the sea meets an island Play Tuesdays: islands on the sea Child sailors Where the sea meets an island Dancing sailor Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Where the sea meets an island The message Sea sayings
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Where the sea meets an island A sailor’s amazing adventure John Simmonds The Message
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Strange ships and fantastic adventures Sun 3 Strange ships and fantastic adventures Steampunk Summer Fete Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour GPS drawing and mapping workshop Mon 4 Badge for Britain Legends of the sea John Simmonds Tue 5 Behind the scenes Ships, Clocks and Stars Badge for Britain Play Tuesdays: islands on the sea Wed 6 Curator’s tour of War and Memory Badge for Britain Dancing sailor Child sailors Thu 7 Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Clarkson Stanfield Badge for Britain The message Sea sayings Fri 8 Badge for Britain A sailor’s amazing adventure John Simmonds The Message Sun 10 Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour GPS drawing and mapping workshop Mon 11 Badge for Britain Legends of the sea John Simmonds Tue 12 Behind the scenes Ships, Clocks and Stars Badge for Britain Play Tuesdays: islands on the sea Wed 13 Curator’s tour of War Artists at Sea Child sailors Badge for Britain Dancing sailor Thu 14 Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Exploring the world with Thomas Pennant Badge for Britain The message Sea sayings Fri 15 Badge for Britain A sailor’s amazing adventure John Simmonds The Message
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Calendar Sun 17 Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Mon 18 Flag nation
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Legends of the sea John Simmonds Flying fish Flag nation Play Tuesdays: islands on the sea Flying fish Flag nation Dancing sailor Art and Science curator’s tour Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Gone sailing Flag nation Sea sayings Flag nation A sailor’s amazing adventure John Simmonds International Slavery Remembrance Day Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Flag nation Legends of the sea John Simmonds War Artists at Sea access tour Gone sailing Flag nation Play Tuesdays: islands on the sea Ocean waves Flag nation Dancing sailor Ocean waves Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour City of Lost Children Slavery and abolition Flag nation Sea sayings Flag nation A sailor’s amazing adventure John Simmonds Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour
SEPTEMBER Wed 3 Thu 4 Fri 5 Sat 6
Curator’s tour of War Artists at Sea Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival Tiny tall ships
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Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival Tiny tall ships Music of the sea Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival Curator’s tour of War and Memory Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Nevil Maskelyne Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour The Art and Science of Exploration Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Cutty Sark curator’s tour Open House The Whale — an exploration Open House Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Introduction to the Caird Library Art and Science curator’s tour Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Candlelit tour of War and Memory Captain Cook The Art and Science of Exploration Gateways to the First World War Ships, Clocks and Stars gallery tour Double the Stars
Explore Saturdays Every Saturday (except 23 August) Discover Sundays Every Sunday Play Tuesdays Every Tuesday (except 29 July and 5, 12, 19, 26 August) Every weekend and holiday weekdays: meet characters from the past at Cutty Sark and the Royal Observatory. See pages 17 and 21.
NMM family activities Maritime Lecture Series Longitude events National Maritime Museum events Caird Library and Archive events Queen’s House events Royal Observatory events Cutty Sark events
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