Museums Society: Events Officer

Hi! I am Stephanie, a first-year sociology student from Hong Kong, and I would love to be one of the events officers for the Museum Society next year. I have loved visiting museums since I was a kid, and I love that we can learn new things through engaging mediums. Museums are not only fun but also often educational, getting us to learn outside the classroom. Knowing there was a museum society at UCL was very exciting, and I hope to help make the museum society exciting for others too! 

I would hope to continue hosting events where as a community we can go to more obscure museums, and possibly special exhibitions in mainstream museums. With leadership experience from my high school hosting school-wide events, I will try my best to make events easy to participate in and accessible for all members. I will also try to interact with museums to get guided tours or access to more collections. Apart from museum visits, I would also propose short discussions post-visit whether online or in real life, or little activities in the museum to make our visits more interactive and engaging. Hosting more socials such as movie nights, game nights, and outdoor gatherings are also important to create a stronger sense of community in our society and allow members to connect with like-minded people. If I get this opportunity, I will work hard to host more interesting visits and socials for our members, so I hope you vote for me!

Growing up, my mother considered cultural enrichment of paramount importance. Naturally, I found myself frequenting museums, galleries and exhibitions of the most fascinating variety persistently throughout my childhood - a fact which I attribute as causative of my unwavering love for art, which has only intensified as I have become older. Of particular mention in recent memory was the privilege I had of admiring Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring during my interrailing travels this preceding summer; or equally, of witnessing the disturbing yet peculiarly moving architecture of the Sedlec Ossuary, Czechia. 

It is in bringing this indomitable spirit that I hope to effectively co-organise a series of enlightening and engaging visits to the plethora of cultural sites dotted across London. Perhaps lamentably, many UCL students spend their typical three-to-five years in the city without a true comprehension of its cultural richness. I hope, humbly, to make my own tangible contribution towards dispelling such ignorances. 

Nicholas Sequeiros-Engel