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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…

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: 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…

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 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…

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…

MANTIS & Special Guest Julio d’Escriván

13:00 5 August 2011
Ensayos for musical multimedia and occasional acoustic performers The series of Ensayos or essays on Live Coding are works of live 'tweaking' sound art, which I call 'edit-performances'.…

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…

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