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Discover Cell Biology Day

09:30 - 15:30 12 July 2011
Each cell in your body is mind-blowingly complex. Comprising hundreds of organelles and simultaneously performing thousands of tasks, each one is unique. With molecular motors hauling…

Discover Nursing Day

09:30 - 15:30 12 July 2011
Our Discover Nursing Day offers the chance to gain hands-on experience of the different courses on offer, which include Child, Adult and Mental Health Nursing.

Living Worlds

14 April 2011 - 14 April 2012
Now open (permanent gallery) If you think nature is something far away, think again - we are nature. Living Worlds explores the connections between all living things, including us,…

Not Part Of Festival: PERCUSSIVE FEET

20:00 12 July 2011
Percussive Feet is a jaw dropping evening of American Tap, wild percussive beats and a fabulous array of funk music and dance. Feet just don’t get any happier than this! With artists…

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…

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…

Discover Molecular Microbiology Day

09:30 - 15:30 13 July 2011
Microbiology examines bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, and investigates their role in disease and their application in biotechnology. Modern microbiologists use a range of cutting-edge…

Not Part Of Festival: PERCUSSIVE FEET

20:00 13 July 2011
Percussive Feet is a jaw dropping evening of American Tap, wild percussive beats and a fabulous array of funk music and dance. Feet just don’t get any happier than this! With artists…

UMASS Summer Lecture Series: Humanities

15:00 - 17:00 13 July 2011
At the end of the academic year, UMASS will hold four lectures for sixth form students. These lectures will be given by an academic member of staff and will include a note-taking skills…

Discover Immunology Day

09:30 - 15:30 14 July 2011
When we get a nasty infection, we want our immune system to respond quickly and effectively to keep us healthy. But what happens when the immune system doesn't function properly? From…

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…

Not Part Of Festival: University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra

13:00 14 July 2011
Mahler Symphony No. 5 'Nobody understood it. I wish I could conduct the first performance fifty years after my death'. Now barely a century since, the University of Manchester Symphony…

Discover Anatomical Sciences Day

09:30 - 15:30 15 July 2011
Anatomy is the study of the structure of body systems and their components, how they work together and how this function goes wrong in disease. On the Discover Anatomical Sciences…

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:…

Discover Pharmacology & Physiology Day

09:30 - 15:30 18 July 2011
How do molecules, cells, organs and systems work together to allow our bodies to function and, when this function goes wrong in disease, how do the drugs we take interact with these…

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.

UMASS Summer Lecture Series: Engineering and Physical Sciences

15:00 - 17:00 20 July 2011
At the end of the academic year, UMASS will hold four lectures for sixth form students. These lectures will be given by an academic member of staff and will include a note-taking skills…

Life Sciences Community Open Day

11:00 - 16:00 23 July 2011
Look around... Come and look inside our laboratories, see our robots at work and watch living things under our million pound microscopes!! Get hands on... Kids (and adults!) can…

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.

UMASS Summer Lecture Series: Life Sciences

15:00 - 17:00 27 July 2011
At the end of the academic year, UMASS will hold four lectures for sixth form students. These lectures will be given by an academic member of staff and will include a note-taking skills…

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