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Discover how these beautifully ingenious instruments were connected to so many aspects of everyday life: from prayer times and calculations to telling the time and casting horoscopes
Join our curators Dr Federica Gigante and Mathilde Daussy-Renaudin to explore how astrolabes mirrored the traditional view of the Earth at the centre of our moving universe
Thanks to your generosity — in 2019 our visitors contributed £41,000 in donations — we have been able to support the Museum’s Collections and continue public events and education programmes.
That is why we continue to rely on visitors just like you to support us.
