Family Class – Ancient Encounters – Ancient Rome
Note: Free with purchased admission to the museum. Class will meet in Glassell Hall.
Travel to ancient Rome without leaving Houston! You’ll have some great postcards to send back to relatives as you excavate a Roman soldiers’ camp, build an arch, help create a museum, march with the legion, and discover diet on the Roman Frontier.
This event is co-sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America.
Tuesday, June 12 All Day
Class – CSI 101
Source: Wikimedia Comons.
Dusting for fingerprints, DNA, blood spatter and more–try your hand at techniques crime scene investigators and lab technicians use to collect and examine evidence.
Ages 15 and up only, due to the graphic nature of this class.
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 – 6:00 PM
BTS – Death by Natural Causes
Study of Skeletons, c. 1510, by Leonardo da Vinci. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The things you fear the most are the least of your worries! “Death by Natural Causes” allows you to delve into those items most deleterious to your life and encounter beauty so deadly your heart may really stop.
Go behind-the-scenes with master docents and encounter a variety of live and potentially deadly creatures, while learning the difference between venomous and poisonous. Continue on to study toxic elements and minerals where dosage often determines if they are helpful or harmful.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 – 6:00 PM
Tickets $32, Members $20
BTS – Smith Gem Vault
Author: Sapphira Smith. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The dazzling facts about the gemstones and the jewelry will be shared by Museum geologists and lapidary artists, including Jill Moffit who worked on one of the stones. This tour will include a demonstration of gemstone cutting.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 – 6:00 PM
Public tickets $32; Member tickets $20
