Discover object-based learning: Workshop and book launch with Thomas Kador

Posted on 9th October, 2025

Join Thomas Kador, author of the new textbook Object-based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.

To mark the publication of Thomas Kador’s Object-based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education, that author is hosting an Object-based Learning (OBL) workshop followed by a reception and book launch.

The workshop will take place at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, and provides an opportunity to encounter and explore some of the objects that are featured in the book as well as a range of other OBL activities.

This will be followed by a reception and book launch at the Grant Museum of Zoology, introduced by Professor Helen Chatterjee.

While this book will be freely downloadable from early September (via the link below), paper copies will be available for purchase on the day. https://uclpress.co.uk/book/object-based-learning/

Schedule

2.30-4.30pm: OBL workshop at the IAS (and the UCL Art Museum), ground floor, South Wing
Explore some of the objects discussed in the book and participate in a range of object-based activities, facilitated by the book’s author and colleagues from UCL Museums and Collections. 

5.45pm: Book launch and wine reception at the Grant Museum of Zoology
Enjoy a glass of wine, beer or non-alcoholic alternative, meet some more of the specimens discussed in the book and join some conversations about the book in the surroundings of UCL’s recently refurbished Grant Museum.

You can choose to attend one or both sections of the day. Please select the relevant ticket when registering: 
https://object-based-learning.eventbrite.co.uk