Announcing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Ice_Age_Event_-_October_13,_2011
This is a full-day event to encourage participation in our
project to improve coverage of Ice Age art aka the Art of the
Upper Paleolithic on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects,
including the early history of the rediscovery and interpretation of
these objects. The British Museum are planning an important
exhibition for Spring 2013 on this, and the project will run until
then.
This is a rare opportunity to have guided tours of the collections
at Franks House, where the British Museum's Palaeolithic and
Mesolithic objects not on display live. It will also be possible to
photograph some objects at Franks House, which will be very useful
for the project (and at Bloomsbury in the normal way). Places are
strictly limited to 20 because of the facilities at Franks House.
We are very lucky to be having a generous amount of time with Jill
Cook, Deputy Keeper of the Prehistoric & Europe Department,
responsible for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic material, and
[http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/departments/staff/prehistory_and_europe/nick_ashton.aspx
Nick Ashton], Curator of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections.
Sign up now open - only 20 places.
John