Manchester Museum

CHINA: JOURNEY TO THE EAST

25 September 2010 - 26 June 2011
A British Museum Tour supported by BP, a CHINA NOW legacy project 25 September 2010-26 June 2011 Free entry China's long history of innovation in technology, science and the arts…

Magic Carpet: Journey to the West

11:00 - 12:00 24 June 2011
11am-12pm. Storytelling and activity session for under 5s. Part of our CHINA: JOURNEY TO THE EAST exhibition.

Stonehenge: henge diggers

19 February - 17 July 2011
Photos by Bill Bevan and emotive texts capture the feelings of archaeologists, some from The University of Manchester, as they dig and make discoveries near this renowned sacred site.…

The Museum Allotment

27 May - 13 November 2011
The Museum’s new Living Worlds gallery explores the connections between all living things, including us, and shows how we can all shape the future by the choices we make. One of…

Big Saturday: Froglife

11:00 - 16:00 9 July 2011
11am-4pm. Water is incredibly important for all sorts of animals and plants, such as frogs and amphibians, and there are loads of things you can do to help the wildlife that depends…

we are extInked

9 July - 4 December 2011
To celebrate the opening of our Living Worlds gallery, we have teamed up with Artist group Ultimate Holding Company to present 'we are extInked' - an exhibition documenting the story…

EVENT CANCELLED Shooting the time detectives

12:30 - 13:30 14 July 2011
Due to illness we have had to cancel this event. You're still very welcome to come and look around the Stonehenge: henge diggers exhibition or you can find out more about Bill's work…

Alternative life drawing class with Dr Sketchy

13:00 - 14:00 16 July 2011
1-2pm. Dr Sketchy Manchester, the alternative life drawing class presents an afternoon at the Museum. This hour long special taking place for the Not Part Of Festival features two models;…

Discovering prehistoric tools

11:00 16 - 16:00 17 July 2011
Meet experts from the Museum and Tameside Archaeological Society and uncover the processes behind archaeological finds discovered over the last 100 years in Greater Manchester and beyond,…

The Ancients

11:00 16 - 16:00 17 July 2011
11am-4pm. Step back in time and meet our ancient ancestors by cave painting or by designing your own stone circle. Linked to the BBC's Hands On History–The Ancients and our Stonehenge:…

Confucius Institute China talk: Public engagement practice in Contemporary Chinese Arts

12:30 - 13:30 19 July 2011
12.30-1.30pm. With Ying Kwok from the Chinese Arts Centre. Many contemporary Chinese artists have become increasingly interested in engaging the public in their practice. Their…

Hunting technology in the Mesolithic Period

12:30 - 13:30 20 July 2011
Talk by Dr Andrew Myers, Assistant County Archaeologist for Greater Manchester. Suitable for adults.

Summer holidays: The Museum Allotment

11:00 25 July - 16:00 26 August 2011
11am-4pm. A summer of activities linked to The Museum Allotment including pot decorating, vegetable printing and making bug homes. With different weekly themes. Mon 25-Fri 29…

1000 year old Pot Washing

14:00 - 15:00 27 July 2011
2-3pm. Hands-on workshop to clean and record archaeological finds from Charles Burney’s excavation of Iranian pottery from the 1950s.

Magic Carpet: Frogs

11:00 - 12:00 29 July 2011
11am-12pm. Storytelling and activity session for under 5s.

Family Friendly Film Club - twilight screening of Ponyo

17:30 - 21:00 4 August 2011
A special twilight screening of Studio Ghibli's Ponyo - a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's…

Family Friendly Film Club Weekender

4 - 7 August 2011
The Manchester Museum is home to a T.rex, live amphibians, stuffed animals and objects from different cultures. So where better to watch short family friendly films such as Dinosaurs…

The Manchester Picnic

5 - 7 August 2011
On Sunday 7 August, The Manchester Museum will be going along with some Museum objects and activities to The Manchester Picnic in Piccadilly Gardens. Piccadilly Gardens will be transformed…

Big Saturday: Summer on the allotment

11:00 - 16:00 6 August 2011
11am-4pm. Come along and learn what veg you can grow, get top tips about composting, join Cracking Good Food for a food workshop, learn all about sun safety, visit the RSPB stall…

Unearthed competition to meet Terry Deary and win a signed Egyptian tales book

8 - 26 August 2011
In The Manchester Museum's Unearthed: Ancient Egypt exhibition, you can help Egyptologist, Dr Digby (played on film by Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories and Egyptian Tales)…

Magic Carpet: Fruit and veg

11:00 - 12:00 26 August 2011
11am-12pm. Storytelling and activity session for under 5s.

Whitworth Park community archaeology and history day

11:00 - 15:30 10 September 2011
Why are people digging in Whitworth Park? What does a bandstand, political rallies and bumble bees have in common? These are all parts of the Whitworth Park community and archaeology…

Knit a galaxy for the Manchester Science Festival

12:00 - 14:00 16 September 2011
Knit a galaxy for the Manchester Science Festival Calling all knitters. As part of the Manchester science festival the university stitching group is attempting to knit a hubble telescope…

Big Saturday: ExtInked

11:00 - 16:00 24 September 2011
11am-4pm. In 2009, as part of the arts and ecology project extInked, 100 drawings of endangered British species were tattooed onto willing volunteers to turn them into ambassadors for…

Knit a galaxy for Manchester Science Festival

14:00 - 16:00 24 September 2011
2-4pm. Calling all knitters. As part of the Manchester Science Festival the University stitching group is attempting to knit a hubble telescope image of a rose made up of galaxies.…

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