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Baby Explorer interactive story and sensory play sessions

10:30 - 11:15 27 September 2016
Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported by a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. Sessions…

Baby Explorer interactive story and sensory play sessions

11:30 - 12:15 27 September 2016
Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported by a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. Sessions…

Capturing Science: Images Past and Present

22 September 2016 - 29 January 2017
A picture is worth a thousand words and captures a moment in time. Manchester is European City of Science throughout 2016 and to celebrate this, we are sharing a selection of our science…

Cervantes Reborn: textual reception and authorial resurrection

09:30 - 17:00 27 September 2016
Symposium in commemoration of the 400 anniversary of Cervantes Programme: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nks0ik4h3gi06f5/Cervantes%20Reborn%20poster%20and%20abstracts%20final.pdf?dl=0 Tuesday,…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 1 July - 17:00 31 December 2016
Are you hungry to get creative with your family? Pick up an Art Hamper, free and available any time during gallery opening hours. Our Art Hampers are filled with materials for you…

Mondays: Early Years Atelier – Family events at the Whitworth

11:00 4 July - 15:00 31 December 2016
Early Years Atelier – Family events at the Whitworth. An informal, drop-in laboratory for trying out ideas and playing with materials - a place where young children can get messy,…

Mondays: Toddler Art Club – Family events at the Whitworth

10:30 18 July - 12:30 19 December 2016
Toddler Art Club – Family events at the Whitworth. Try these workshops – led by artists, dancers and musicians – and let your toddler discover, explore, create and play. Each Monday:…

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 - 13:45 27 September 2016
Join us for live music and songs inspired by our collections, supported by a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. A space to play, share and discover together Please…

New Arrivals

12 March - 20 November 2016
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that have recently been brought into the Whitworth’s collection. Highlighting a contemporary and diverse approach to drawing, they…

Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground

8 September 2016 - 5 March 2017
Painter, poet, actor and sculptor, a man once described as "the only all-round genius most of us are likely to meet," Jeff Nuttall was one of the few people in the early 1960s to publish…

Revolutionary Textiles 1910-1939

26 March 2016 - 29 January 2017
In the early decades of the 20th century textile design took off in new directions throughout the Western world. Invigorated by experimental techniques, art styles such as Fauvism,…

Seminar: Teaching statistics to non-statisticians

14:00 - 15:30 27 September 2016
The Data, Skills and Training research group at CMIST, University of Manchester, has a focus on statistical literacy. We are delighted to have two renowned speakers for our next research…

Sundays: Artist Sundays – Family events at the Whitworth

10:00 24 July - 17:00 18 December 2016
Family events. Artist Sundays. Extraordinary artists invent offbeat and imaginative ways for you and your family to explore the Whitworth – every Sunday. Sundays, 10am-5pm (drop…

The Study at Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 31 December 2016
Big ideas. Singular collaborations. Strange and wonderful things. Exhibitions and events with some of the most interesting people we know. And somewhere that brings them all together.…

The Tabley House Collection

13:00 24 March - 17:00 30 October 2016
As a university of Manchester country house collection, The Tabley House Collection showcases a permanent exhibition of early British modern masters alongside interchanging displays…

Webinar: Data review and publishing standards

15:00 - 16:00 27 September 2016
The UK Data Service holds the UK’s largest collection of socio-economic digital research data. This webinar is for anyone with an interest in social science research who wants to know…

Wednesdays: Artbaby – Musicbaby – Family events at the Whitworth

10:15 20 July - 12:30 31 December 2016
Artbaby – Musicbaby – Family events at the Whitworth Designed for babies and their grown ups, and led by artists and musicians, these sensory workshops explore sounds, art and music.…

Antibiotic Resistance And You!

17:00 - 20:00 28 September 2016
FREE event by Public Health England Wednesday 28 September 2016, University of Manchester Theatre A, University Place, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL Antibiotic resistance…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 28 September - 13:55 23 November 2016
1.05pm, Wednesday 28 September – Wednesday 23 November 2016 (Apart from Wed 2 Nov) This autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for…

Getting to know our new Faculty - Planning, Compliance, Governance, Risk and the NHS

13:00 - 14:00 28 September 2016
For the third of our bite-size PSS information seminars, Rebecca Moss, Head of Planning, Compliance, Governance, Risk and the NHS, explains who’s who and gives an overview of the work…

Hands on with Data – the why and how of getting students using data

13:00 - 16:30 28 September 2016
This free half-day workshop is aimed at early career researchers, lecturers and university teachers of all levels who teach quantitative methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 28 September 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 28 September 2016
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

SCI Seminar Series - Professor Kate Soper

16:00 - 17:30 28 September 2016
Professor Kate Harvey, Emerita Professor of Philosophy, London Metropolitan University will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 28 September 2016, entitled 'The interaction of policy and…

Technicians Seminar Series: TBA (Cellular signalling in Melanoma Skin Cancer)

13:00 - 14:00 28 September 2016
The technician’s seminars are popular and generally well attended, covering a wide range of research topics with FBMH. This event is to promote general interest across faculty. The…

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