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Pet Cemeteries: How We Came to Bury Our Non-human Friends – Paul Koudounaris – Zoom

Pet Cemeteries: How We Came to Bury Our Best Nonhuman Friends

When a little dog named Cherry died in 1881, his owners arranged for a grave in a nearby gatekeeper’s garden in London. At this time, the idea that a pet, even one that had lived as a family member, might be given a dignified burial was considered comical. But when other pet owners followed suit, the world’s first urban pet cemetery was born. More soon followed, and the idea eventually spread throughout the world. The talk will detail the history—always touching, oft times comical, and sometimes weird—of the people who fought to give birth to the ideal that an animal that has been loved as a family deserves the same care and dignity in death.

Paul Koudounaris has a PhD in Art History from UCLA. He is the author of three books on the visual culture of death, Empire of Death, Heavenly Bodies, and Memento Mori, as well as a history of domestic felines, A Cat’s Tale, co-written by his cat Baba, and named a Barnes and Noble Book of the Year in 2020. Faithful Unto Death, his book on pet cemeteries and animal burials, the world’s first definitive history of the subject, was published in October, 2024.

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day

Witches, Wassail & Deadly Distilling: A Spirited Talk & Tasting with Wet Ink x Millie Milliken LIVE

Witches, Wassail & Deadly Distilling: Dispelling witchcraft’s storied relationship with drinks with Millie Milliken x Wet Ink

Wassail, whisky, witch’s brew: the world of witchcraft is fascinatingly intertwined with those of brewing and distilling. From the infamous (and some lesser-known) deadly witch trials, to superstitions, their symbolic richness and the life of a modern-day witch, their history and impact on culture have many stories to tell.

Luckily these stories are being told more and more, in books, talks and tastings, and so inspired by the likes of the wonderful ‘Whisky & Witches’ and ‘Girly Drinks’, we’ll dispel what we think we know about this fascinating community and highlight some of its most prolific characters. We’ll also explore witches in the context of drinks making – and celebrate the ways in which witches also use drinks in their practice.

Tickets: £25 (to include welcome cocktail, talk, and tasting of 5 spirits)

When: Monday 18 November, 6.30pm-9pm

MORE DETAILS ON THE SPIRITS INCLUDED IN THE TASTING WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

EVENT SCHEDULE

Doors open: 6:30pm bar opens with special themed cocktail menu
Talk & Tasting: 7pm – 8pm including a Q&A
Cocktails & Curiosities: 8pm-9pm bar reopens for cocktails and guests are invited to visit the museum during this time.

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Wet Ink x The Last Tuesday Society

To mark the launch of her new content, event and tastings company, Wet Ink, spirits and cocktail writer Millie Milliken has joined forces with home of Devil’s Botany, The Last Tuesday Society, for a series of talks that combine her love of drinks with their sometimes offbeat and unusual cultural histories.

There’ll be welcome drinks and themed cocktails from the team at The Last Tuesday Society, themed playlist links too and a chance to discover some of the spirits linked to the topics.

Millie Milliken

Millie Milliken is an award-winning spirits and cocktail writer whose work has been published in the likes of the Evening Standard, Club Oenologique and Wallpaper*. Through her new content, events and tasting company Wet Ink, Milliken wants to tell more stories about spirits and cocktails that don’t normally ever get told. From mermaids, to cowgirls, tarot to witchcraft, she takes a different angle to educating consumers about the magical world of drinks.

Guided Tours with Vadim Kosmos – Emeritus Director of the Museum

In person at the museum NOT BY ZOOM!

Guided tours of London’s Famous – nay InFamous – Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History, first drink your Devil’s Botany Absinthe (included in ticket price) – then see Dodo’s Bones, Erotica from Around the World, Real Fairies, Mermaids, Creatures of The Deep. Occult Masterpieces by Austin Osman Spare, Surrealist Minorpieces by Leonora Carrington, Pailthorpe & Mednikoff, Old Master Etchings, Magick, The Gnostic Temple of Agape, Dead Dandies, Gian’t’s Bones, The Naughy Nun, Unicorns, Voodoo Fetishes from Benin, Masks from New Guinea and The Congo, Entomological Displays, The Cabinet of Monsters with Two Headed Lam, Piglet and Kitten, 4 legged Chicken, Eight Legged Lamb, Two Headed Snake, Skeletons, Taxiermy, Dead People, Spirit Drawings, Old Dolls, Human Hair Art, a Magic Teacup, Magick Soap, Skulls Taxidermy and more – all underground in a tiny, claustrophobic basement that looks like the inside of Viktor Wynd’s Mind