Forthcoming events
Wednesday 16 May 2012
30 September 2011 - 6 September 2012
30 Sep 2011-6 Sep 2012. Calling all budding Egyptologists and archaeologists. We need your help! Our Egyptologist Dr Digby (played on film by Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories and Egyptian Tales) has collected so…
24 March - 18 November 2012
Inspired by 1950s design and combining Alan Turing’s notes with museum objects, this exhibition documents Turing’s investigation into one of the great mysteries of nature: how complex shapes and patterns arise from simple balls…
New Object Lessons: Curating for 2012 and Beyond
16 May 2012
10am-1pm. Specially devised for museum professionals and creative practitioners, this brand new edition of the highly popular and thought-provoking Curating for 2012 will explore links between everyday objects and museum collections.…
Thursday 17 May 2012
Tours of the Vivarium - every Tues & Thurs
17 May 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
Friday 18 May 2012
After Hours – secret gardens in the city
18 May 2012
6.30-8.30pm. For our Museums at Night After Hours, we're inviting you to our tranquil secret gardens in the city. Play croquet on our allotment with a glass of pimms, go into our secret gothic tower to see the treasures of our…
Saturday 19 May 2012
Big Saturday: Patterns in nature
19 May 2012
11am-4pm. In an incredible article published in 1952, Alan Turing suggested that everything from the spots and stripes on animals to the arrangement of pine cones and flowers could be explained by the interactions between two…
Tuesday 22 May 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
22 May 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Showcase lecture: What is happening behind the hoardings?
23 May 2012
3-4.30pm. With Sam Sportun, The Manchester Museum. An update on the re-display of the Museum's Ancient Egypt and Archaeology galleries: the challenges and opportunities that the Heritage Lottery Funded redevelopment has presented to the collection care team.
Friday 25 May 2012
25 May 2012
Storytelling and activity session for under 5s and their families/carers.
Saturday 26 May 2012
Museum Meets: Urban Naturalist
26 May 2012
2-4pm. Windowsill gardening. Runner beans, lettuce and herbs are all plants you can grow on your windowsill - some plants to start growing early and some to grow all the way. Join our friends from Hulme Community Garden Centre…
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
29 May 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
Thursday 31 May 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
31 May 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
Saturday 2 June 2012
We Face Forward: Anansi Stories
2 June - 16 September 2012
A popular character in West African and Caribbean folklore, Anansi the Spider is a trickster who started life as a man, but due to his mischievous ways was turned into a spider by his father, the Great Sky God. Because of his…
Big Saturday: Manchester Anansi Spider
2 June 2012
11am-4pm. See the Anansi Spider story brought to life in a performance by the Men’s Room Community Group and Royal Exchange Theatre. Have a look around our We Face Forward: Anansi Stories display, which has been inspired by this…
Monday 4 June 2012
June half term: Living Worlds and Manchester Anansi Spider
4 - 8 June 2012
11am-4pm. Make sock pets and Anansi Spiders, inspired by our We Face Forward: Anansi Stories display and Living Worlds gallery. With Anansi Spider storytelling and activities Tuesday-Thursday, 1-3pm.
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
12 June 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
Thursday 14 June 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
14 June 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
What if…..Cities were sustainable
14 June 2012
6-8pm. This panel debate is part of The Festival of Transition, a joint project of nef, Transition Network and others - a series of events, talks and walks happening up and down the country, culminating in a nationwide day of…
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
19 June 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
Thursday 21 June 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
21 June 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
The archaeology of ritual, shrines and sacrifice in Northern Ghana
21 June 2012
6-8pm. With Timothy Insoll, Professor of Archaeology at The University of Manchester. Tim has carried out field projects among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana and has participated in the Komaland project in Northern Ghana.
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
26 June 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
Wednesday 27 June 2012
27 June 2012
1-2pm. Featuring speakers with specialist knowledge of China, these talks cover diverse topics from literature to politics, art, recreation and economics with the aim of demystifying contemporary China.
Thursday 28 June 2012
Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)
28 June 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.
Creativity in tough times: Turing and Manchester University after the Second World War
28 June 2012
6-7pm. With Professor John Pickstone, The University of Manchester. The impact of Alan Turing is indisputable, so too the tragedy of his suicide. In many ways, his ideas on computing changed the world, but how did he interact…