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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…

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…

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…

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.

Magic Carpet: West Africa

10:30 - 12:30 31 August 2012
10.30-11.30am & 11.30am-12.30pm. Storytelling and activity session for under 5s and their families/carers.

The House that Stank of Death

19:00 31 August 2012
A Halloween multimedia comedy/horror extravaganza by David Isaac (Lunch Monkeys – BBC3) and Peter Slater (Ideal – BBC3). Five short plays and four short films which will make you scream…

MAP Guidance Interviews

5 September 2012
This is a 20 minute informal chat with a member of staff at the University of Manchester and is an opportunity for you to receive advice and guidance on your course options and progressing to University.

Will Hutton Public Lecture - Is Better Capitalism Possible?

18:15 - 19:30 6 September 2012
Will Hutton is currently the principal of Hertford College, Oxford. He was previously chief executive of the Work Foundation from 2000 to 2008 and editor in chief of the Observer. He…

Heritage Open Day

8 September 2012
We are delighted to be taking part in the Heritage Open Days programme on Saturday 8 September 2012. Heritage Open Days celebrate England’s fantastic architecture and culture by offering…

Turing’s textiles

10:00 - 16:00 8 September 2012
10am-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…

Pan African Congress

18:00 - 20:00 11 September 2012
6-8pm. Panel debate on the lasting impact of the 1945 Pan African Congress in Manchester. From 15 to 21 October 1945, Manchester was the setting for 90 delegates who gathered at All…

Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)

12:00 - 13:00 11 September 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.

Blackhand Theatre presents – Some Voices

19:00 - 22:00 12 September 2012
Following their successful production of John Osborne's kitchen sink classic, Look Back in Anger, last September, Blackhand bring Some Voices, a tough social drama written by British…

MAP Guidance Interviews

12 September 2012
This is a 20 minute informal chat with a member of staff at the University of Manchester and is an opportunity for you to receive advice and guidance on your course options and progressing to University.

Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)

12:00 - 13:00 13 September 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.

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