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Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma

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…

Manchester Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime Concert

13:00 - 15:00 20 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Pride presents LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows

19:30 - 22:00 20 August 2012
LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows by: Neil Bartlett, Stella Duffy, Rob Ellis & Jackie Kay Directed by Jonathan Best A quartet of new monologues by four of the UK’s leading writers…

Summer holidays - Unearthed: Ancient Egypt

11:00 23 July - 16:00 31 August 2012
11am-4pm. Visit our Unearthed: Ancient Egypt exhibition and help our Egyptologist Dr Digby (played on film by Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories) investigate and record his finds.…

Tours of Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma

13:00 17 - 13:30 23 August 2012
Friday 17, Saturday 18, Monday 20-Thursday 23 August, (not Sunday 19), 1-1.30pm. From 1951-54 Alan Turing worked on the early computers next door to the Manchester Museum to answer…

Unearthed: Ancient Egypt

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…

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…

Pride Chamber Music Evening Concert (BBC Radio 3 Recording)

19:30 - 22:00 21 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Pride presents LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows

19:30 - 22:00 21 August 2012
LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows by: Neil Bartlett, Stella Duffy, Rob Ellis & Jackie Kay Directed by Jonathan Best A quartet of new monologues by four of the UK’s leading writers…

Accommodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 22 August 2012
A chance to take a walking tour of our largest accommodation campus in Fallowfield, with the opportunity to see inside at least one student bedroom.

Alan Turing: science and sexuality

17:30 - 19:30 22 August 2012
5.30-7.30pm. Join scientists, activists and exhibition curators for a panel debate on the theme of Alan Turing: science and sexuality. Part of Manchester Pride Festival

Guided Visits

13:30 - 15:30 22 August 2012
A presentation on The University of Manchester by a member of the Undergraduate Recruitment and Widening Participation Team, followed by a question and answer session and a tour of the campus with a current student

Northern Elements

19:30 - 21:30 22 August 2012
Manchester based collective Bad Language bring together two well-known writers of poetry and prose to create new work established from content inside the Manchester Museum. Over…

Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime Concert

13:00 - 15:30 22 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Pride presents LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows

19:30 - 22:00 22 August 2012
LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows by: Neil Bartlett, Stella Duffy, Rob Ellis & Jackie Kay Directed by Jonathan Best A quartet of new monologues by four of the UK’s leading writers…

Summer holidays: Manchester Anansi Spider

13:00 - 15:00 22 August 2012
Wednesday 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 August, 1-3pm. Create your own stories by cutting and sticking characters from the original Anansi Spider stories. You can also take a look at the We Face…

Pride Chamber Music Evening Concert (BBC Radio 3 Recording)

19:30 - 22:00 23 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Pride presents LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows

19:30 - 22:30 23 August 2012
LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows by: Neil Bartlett, Stella Duffy, Rob Ellis & Jackie Kay Directed by Jonathan Best A quartet of new monologues by four of the UK’s leading writers…

Map Self-Marketing Workshop

15:00 - 17:00 24 August 2012
Your personal statement is all about marketing yourself and focusing on why you would be the ideal student to study a particular course. The workshop will ask you to think about your…

Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime Concert

13:00 - 15:00 24 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Museum Meets: Urban Naturalist

14:00 - 16:00 25 August 2012
2-4pm. Summer wild food forage with Jesper Launder, in association with Cracking Good Food. Summertime lends itself to outdoor activities and whether rain or shine, conditions for…

Cooperation and Human Cognition’ – Public Lecture by Professor Michael Tomasello.

14:00 - 18:00 28 August 2012
Michael Tomasello, psychologist and co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, is one of the world’s leading researchers on social learning, communication…

Edinburgh & Lothians UCAS Higher Education Convention

28 - 29 August 2012
The University of Manchester will be attending the Edinburgh & Lothians UCAS Higher Education Convention on 28th and 29th August 2012. The University of Manchester receives applications…

Summer holidays: Manchester Anansi Spider

13:00 - 15:00 29 August 2012
Wednesday 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 August, 1-3pm. Create your own stories by cutting and sticking characters from the original Anansi Spider stories. You can also take a look at the We Face…

Geology identification drop-in session

14:00 - 15:00 30 August 2012
2-3pm. Our Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, will be in the Resource Centre once a month to answer your questions and identify your rocks and fossils.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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