Brain Food September–December 2013

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Digital frontiers exhibition Ever wondered what the prisoners would have eaten in Jeremy Bentham’s ideal Panopticon building? This new exhibition not only displays original Special Collections material – manuscripts from the Bentham Collection, including his suggestions for prison recipes – but also enables you to zoom in, using touch screens, on digital images and transcriptions alongside the originals. Until Mon 16 Dec | all day Octagon Gallery, UCL main campus sussanah.chan@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3163

The National Hospital, Queen Square: from research to patient This photographic exhibition showcases images from the archives of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which are housed in and managed by Queen Square Library. They provide a fascinating window into the foundation and development of a specialist hospital that has grown to become one of the foremost of its kind in the world. Mon 9 Sep–Fri 1 Nov | all day South Cloisters, UCL main campus sarah.lawson@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3448 4709

Open House London: pop-up display The UCL Art Museum is participating in Open House London with a pop-up display of some extraordinary architectural drawings by William Wilkins, architect of UCL’s Wilkins Building, and John Flaxman, neoclassical sculptor. Sat 21 Sep | 1.30–4pm UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540 Visit the Octagon Gallery for the ‘Digital frontiers exhibition’. Running all day until 16 December. 27 11


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