1. Cafe Crafternoons Saturday 9 & Wednesday 13 May 2015, 2.00 -4.00pm ‘Embroidered Fortune-Telling Hand’ Inspired by the Gypsy Lore Archive exhibition, Tabitha Moses will teach you how to make a basic embroidery sampler in the form of a fortune-telling hand. Beginners welcome. £5, includes tea and coffee. Booking required, call 0151 794 2348 Attendees must be aged 16+ Admission to all exhibitions and galleries is free Ashton Street, Liverpool, L69 3DR Phone +44 (0) 151 794 2348 Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm Email vgmrecep@liv.ac.uk Website vgm.liv.ac.uk Light Night 2015Music Performance Holiday Workshop Family Saturday Gallery Exhibition 15 May 2015 30 minute tours at 5pm, 6.30pm & 8pm. Impropriety are delighted to be weaving their improvised magic at the VG&M. Join their completely (un)qualified tour guides as they talk you through the history and exhibitions of this magnificent building. Booking is required as spaces are limited, please contact reception: 0151 794 2348 or email vgm@liv.ac.uk. Tuesday 19 May 2015 1.00pm, Leggate Theatre. To celebrate the 25 th Anniversary of the Leggate Lecture Theatre, the University of Liverpool Choir and Music School will perform a selection of songs that were originally performed at the 1892 opening ceremony of the Victoria Building. Free event but booking is required please contact reception: 0151 794 2348 or email vgm@liv.ac.uk. Thursday 28 May 2015 Drop in 1.00 – 4.00pm Examine the minutiae of the natural world through microscopes, meet some live bugs from Knowsley Safari Park and make your own bug to take home! This event is inspired by our new Micrographia display in the Tate Hall Museum. Free events, no booking required. Saturday 30 May 10.30am : Family Film Screening of Disney’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame.’ Drop in 1.00-4.00pm ‘Gypsy Art’ Join artist Juliet and create your own Romany gypsy artwork. Inspired by our Gypsy Lore exhibition. Free events, no booking required. 16 May – 26 September 2015 ‘Fred Shaw: Gypsy Portraits’ A printer by trade, Fred Shaw was a talented photographer, contributing to the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. This display draws on his photographs presented to the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection, deposited with University of Liverpool Special Collections & Archives. There will also be a display of contemporary photography by Helen Sear as part of LOOK/15 on the Red Wall.

2. Waterloo 200 Saturday 6 June 11.00am – 4.00pm Join us as we commemorate 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo. Meet soldier re-enactors, take part in interactive storytelling sessions and visit our craft tables. In partnership with the National Army Museum. Free events, no booking required. Admission to all exhibitions and galleries is free Ashton Street, Liverpool, L69 3DR Phone +44 (0) 151 794 2348 Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm Email vgmrecep@liv.ac.uk Website vgm.liv.ac.uk Cafe CrafternoonsFamily Saturday Gallery Exhibition Museum Exhibition Wednesday 10 & Saturday 13 June, 2.00 – 4.00pm Join textile artist Juliet Staines to create hand painted papers & use them to create a unique paper collage and stitch landscape piece using simple embroidery stitches. It may help to bring along a landscape or seascape image to base your work on. £5, includes tea and coffee Booking required, call 0151 794 2348 Attendees must be aged 16+ Saturday 27 June 10.30am : Family Film Screening of ‘Night at the Museum 3: curse of the Tomb.’ Drop in 1.00-4.00pm To celebrate the 120 th anniversary of the first patient X Ray taken in Liverpool, create your own X Rays to take home! Free events, no booking required. 21 May – 31 October 2015 ‘Peter Corbett, Retrospective’ Peter Corbett is one of Liverpool's most established fine artists. His work, centred around his unique double edging technique, explores large scale abstraction. Galleries 6 & 7, first floor. From 12 May 2015 ‘Micrographia’ In 1665, English scientist Robert Hooke published Micrographia, the world’s first illustrated book of microscopy, changing the way people understood the world. A first edition of Micrographia held in the University of Liverpool Library’s Special Collections & Archives will be on display in the Museum. 6th June – 24th October 2015 'Waterloo Lives: Relics & Remembrance‘ In partnership with the National Army Museum, we will be displaying exciting loans from their collections - to remember the people involved - and to mark the 200th Anniversary of Waterloo: the battle that changed Europe.