What to Expect
Join Dr Taha Yasin Arslan, exhibition curator Dr Stephen Johnston and Museum Director Dr Silke Ackermann for an exploration of the astrolabe.
Participants will each assemble and learn to use their own laser-cut modern astrolabe to take home afterwards. You will also get to try your hand at the metalworking techniques needed to shape the historical examples in the exhibition, from sawing and filing, to riveting and shaping.
The session gives a taste of the way that the astrolabe embodied science, religion, art and craft in one exquisite object.
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