Manchester Museum

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…

Geology identification drop-in session

14:00 - 15:00 27 September 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: Fruit & veg

10:30 - 12:30 28 September 2012
10.30-11.30am & 11.30am-12.30pm. Storytelling and activity session for under 5s and their families/carers.

Urban Naturalist: Seeds

14:00 - 16:00 29 September 2012
2-4pm. As autumn arrives, Dr. Rachel Webster, Curator of Botany at The Manchester Museum, will help you learn how to harvest, clean and prepare seeds for storage. Practice your skills…

Baby Explorers

12:15 - 14:45 2 October 2012
Every other Tuesday. 12.15-1.15pm & 1.45-2.45pm Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren’t walking yet.

The Animal Estate 25 Years On

13:00 - 14:00 5 October 2012
1-2pm. With Professor Harriet Ritvo. In 1986 Professor Ritvo published The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age, a book that broke new ground in Victorian…

Breed: The British & their Dogs

6 October 2012 - 14 April 2013
6 October 2012-14 April 2013 The history of the British Isles and its inhabitants, both human and canine, has long been entwined. Breed reveals the enduring and affectionate relationship…

Grand day out for grandparents

12:00 7 October 2012
12-4pm. Are the grandchildren brimming with energy and you fancy having some fun with them? Bring the whole family and make an afternoon of it with fun free family activities at both…

Big Saturday: Dogs on Show

11:00 - 16:00 13 October 2012
11am-4pm. With live dogs in our courtyard and activities for all the family. You can meet a Bloodhound, Bulldog, Borzoi, Collie, Pekinese and Irish Wolfhound and their breeders. There’s…

Manchester Weekender: Bunford & Kashiwagi...in the mix

14:00 - 15:00 13 October 2012
2-3pm. Huw Bunford (Super Furry Animals) and artist, Naomi Kashiwagi perform new soundscapes that tune into and crank up the volume of found sounds in the Museum. The performance will…

Manchester Weekender: Manchester Dogs

13:30 - 14:30 13 October 2012
1.30-2.30pm. The story of three types of canine associated with Manchester and its region: street dogs, Manchester terriers and the Lyme Hall mastiffs. In the nineteenth century…

Manchester Weekender: Speed Chess

12:00 - 14:00 13 October 2012
12-2pm. Alan Turing is known to many as a celebrated Manchester genius – you may know him better for building the world’s first programmable computer, code breaking at Bletchley or…

The Confucius Institute talks on China: How do China’s leading thinkers view the rest of the world

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2012
1-2pm. With Astrid Nordin. Featuring speakers with specialist knowledge of China, these talks cover diverse topics from literature to politics, art, recreation and economics with the…

What a dog might tell us: on photography, perfectibility, and the aesthetics of breed

18:00 - 20:00 23 October 2012
6-8pm. With artist Jo Longhurst. For several years Jo worked with eminent British Whippet breeders, photographing their dogs by bloodline, exploring their quest for the perfect dog.…

Ancient Worlds

26 October 2012
In 2012, to mark the centenary of the first Egypt gallery to be opened at the Museum, we are opening Ancient Worlds - three new galleries highlighting our collections from Manchester…

Magic Carpet: Cats & dogs

10:30 - 12:30 26 October 2012
10.30-11.30am & 11.30am-12.30pm. Storytelling and activity session for under 5s and their families/carers.

BBC Prehistoric Autopsy tour

27 - 30 October 2012
To coincide with the BBC Two series Prehistoric Autopsy, BBC Learning is going on the road with a new hands-on exhibition aimed at families with children aged 7-12 years old. Visitors…

Growers' gallery

10:00 27 October - 17:00 4 November 2012
Saturday 27 October-Sunday 4 November, 10am-5pm. From Manchester to Palestine and from Europe to the USA and South America, 11,000 sunflowers were pledged in 13 countries. This media…

Science spectacular!

11:00 - 15:00 27 October 2012
11am-3pm. Join us on a whistle-stop tour of research at The University of Manchester and take part in some great science challenges. Go on a journey through the heart, find out why…

Sheep, socks and wire woollies

14:00 - 16:00 27 October 2012
Create masterpieces using different knitting yarns linked to the Museum’s collections, ranging from wool, angora, nettles and wire. Explore the material science behind the yarns, from…

The Beast Within - human parasite drawings

27 October - 4 November 2012
Sheffield based artist Paul Evans unveils the results of a collaboration with Prof Matthew Cobb, Prof Kathryn Else and Dr Sheena Cruickshank from the Faculty of Life Sciences at The…

The building of Manchester science

11:00 - 12:00 27 October 2012
11am-12pm. For 150 years, The University of Manchester has been a powerhouse of science and technology - from chemistry and dyestuffs to the making of atomic physics, from principles…

Urban Naturalist: Clouds

14:00 - 16:00 27 October 2012
2-4pm. Joni Mitchell sang that she's "looked at clouds from both sides now," and after this workshop so will you. Prof David Schultz, weather researcher at the University of Manchester,…

Polar: Explore

13:30 - 15:30 28 October 2012
1.30 & 2.30pm. Hear some of the best music ever written, combined with stunning footage from some of the world's best natural history film makers, set in the stunning surroundings of…

Half term: Ancient Worlds

11:00 29 October - 16:00 2 November 2012
Mon 29 Oct-Fri 2 Nov, 11am-4pm. Explore the newly-opened Ancient Worlds galleries and find out about technology used by the ancient peoples of Greece, Rome and Egypt, as well as discovering…

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