01 Professor Malcolm Grant at the Octagon Gallery opening 02 Visitors explore the Octagon Gallery
The reopening The refurbishment took nine months to complete and was one of the UCL Masterplan’s first major schemes to be implemented. The work was overseen by Burwell Deakins Architects. Director William Deakins said: “It’s extremely satisfying to see such prominent areas of the university being brought back to life, reaffirming the galleries as the cultural heart of the university. By visually linking the two galleries, it has animated both spaces while also helping visitors orientate themselves in the building.”
01 Underneath the glass plinth for St Michael Overcoming Satan, 1819-24
An official reopening ceremony was held on 27 November 2012. Guests had the opportunity to explore the first ever exhibition in the new Octagon Gallery, Model Translations, which showcased objects from UCL’s art, anthropology, archaeology, engineering, pathology and zoology collections, many of them never previously displayed.
02 Exhibits in the Octagon Gallery
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