SUM504G – Cultural Treasures of London: A Journey Through Time 2024
Topic outline
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Meeting point: QMUL Mile End Campus, Grad Centre 103
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Morning Session, 10AM Grad Centre 103
Afternoon session, 1PM in front of the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery (closest Tube stop: Charing Cross or Embankment). If you're facing the facade of the building in the picture above, with Trafalgar Square behind you, the Sainsbury Wing is to your left, under scaffolding.
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Morning Session 10AM: Grad Centre 103
Afternoon Session 1PM: Outside entrance to the Treasures Gallery, Natural History Museum (closest Tube: South Kensington). The Treasures display (Cadogan Gallery) is at the top of the main staircase in the entrance hall. Go up the lefthand staircase to find one of two entrances to Treasures. We'll meet by benches at that entrance, next to the skeleton of a giant moa bird.
Download the museum floor plan here (Treasures is in the Green Zone, designated by a dodo skeleton):
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/visit/map/Museum-map.pdf
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Morning Session: V&A Museum (the closest tube stop is South Kensington), Room 74 on Level 2, at the entrance to the Design 1900–Now display (enter the museum from the main entrance on Cromwell Road, walk through the main shop until you reach the long sculpture gallery; turn left and walk as far as you can until you reach the stairs. Go up the stairs to Level 2. The entrance to the display is right there.). See the V&A's floor plan below, and if you are in any doubt about where to go, please ask a member of staff or visit the information desk at the main entrance:
https://www.vam.ac.uk/features/digitalmap/?highlightId=FAC0000_49720&floor=2
Afternoon session: V&A Cast Courts (Level 0, Room 46A [see above linked map])
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Morning and afternoon sessions: Quayside Room, Museum of London Docklands. Meet just inside the entrance where someone will show us to the Quayside Room. If you are late, ask for directions to the Quayside Room at the information desk. The nearest DLR stop is West India Quay; nearest Tube stop is Canary Wharf. [Please note: Make sure you go to the correct Museum of London! This one is located in the Docklands, East London, near Canary Wharf.]
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Morning and afternoon sessions: The ReThink space in the Sammy Ofer Wing of the National Maritime Museum (nearest DLR station is Cutty Sark; nearest rail stations are Maze Hill or Greenwich). Enter the museum via the Parkside entrance inside Greenwich Park, near the ship in the bottle sculpture. Ask for directions to ReThink from a member of staff at the entrance. It's just behind the info desk, to the left.
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Here is a link to the Chicago Manual of Style's Quick Guide for their Notes and Bibliography Style.
The free online guide only provides access to part of the full Chicago Manual and does not provide an example of how to cite museum wall text or caption artworks. Here are examples of how you may cite these in Chicago Style:
Wall Text:
Format of information (wall text, object label, brochure), Gallery/Room Name, Number or Exhibition Title, Museum Name, City, State.Example for Wall Text Footnote:
Wall text, Britain becomes a World Power, National Portrait Gallery, London.Example for Wall Text Bibliography:
Wall text. Britain becomes a World Power. National Portrait Gallery, London.Figure Caption for Artworks:
Figure Number: Artist, Title, date. Medium, measurements. Museum Name, City.Example for Artwork Caption:
Figure 1: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, 1839. Oil on canvas, 90.7 x 121.6 cm. National Gallery, London.
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Opened: Monday, 24 June 2024, 12:00 AMDue: Monday, 22 July 2024, 10:00 AM
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Opened: Thursday, 27 June 2024, 12:00 AMDue: Thursday, 18 July 2024, 12:00 AM
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(Please note that this sample was written for the 3000-word version of this assessment.)
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(Please note that this sample was written for the 3000-word version of this assessment.)
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(Please note that this sample was written for the 3000-word version of this assessment.)