Name: 💫 Churchill Lecture: Reaching for the Stars with Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Start: 2025-10-17T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-17T20:15:00+01:00
Location: American Museum & Gardens

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🎤 The Churchill Lecture: Reaching for the Stars with Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
17 October | Doors at 6pm
💫 What are the benefits of thinking big and reaching for the stars? Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock explores these ideas and shows how having a big dream is good for all of us and how Astronomy has been a global – and unifying – endeavour throughout history, past and present.

🎟️ Tickets:
www.americanmuseum.org/whats-on/churchill-lecture
Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock PhD is a space scientist, TV presenter and author whose passion is presenting science to a general audience and demonstrating that you ‘don’t need a brain the size of a small planet’ to understand, participate in and enjoy science.
👉 Things you need to know:
Doors will open at 6pm with drinks for sale at our bar.
The lecture will begin at 7pm and is due to end by 8pm.
We are pleased to offer free parking. If the main car park is full, please follow our signs to the additional parking, just a short distance up Claverton Hill from the main car park.
On arrival, please check in with the Ticket Office team who will give you more information about your visit.
Please be aware that we are unable to provide a refund unless the event is cancelled.
Please note we are a completely non-smoking site.
The American Museum will not be open during this event.