Open House London is an annual event designed to showcase the city’s architectural treasures. This year UCL again opened its doors to become one of seven hundred properties that could be visited free of charge.

The Flaxman Gallery at UCL

Regular tours took place around the cloisters overlooking the main quadrangle, taking in the Flaxman Gallery and Jeremy Bentham’s ‘auto-icon’. In addition, the Grant Museum, Strang Print Room and Petrie Museum extended their visiting hours.

As a recent graduate of the Architectural Diploma programme, I was looking forward to revisiting these spaces afresh, to learn about their history rather than simply scurrying through them to return library books or construct exhibitions.

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Martha Henson, Multimedia Editor at Wellcome Trust, reports on a recent public event at Wellcome Collection run by UCL researchers.

We’ve been thinking a lot about Dirt recently at Wellcome Collection, so it seemed reasonable to pose the question: “Just how dirty is Wellcome Collection?” To find out, Professor Mike Wilson and Dr Derren Ready of UCL sent teams of children and their families out to swab door handles around the building, and I filmed them in action.

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