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…

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…

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…

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…

From birth to death: A life sciences model explained via live link up from China

12:00 - 13:00 29 October 2012
12-1pm. At the heart of our quest to understand the human life cycle are the fundamental questions of existence. Where do we come from? Where do we go? From developments in IVF to modern…

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…

Meteorite day

11:00 - 16:00 29 October 2012
11am-4pm. Get your hands on pieces of space rock over 4 billion years old and examine moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts. See what happens when meteorites hit the Earth.…

Prehistoric Autopsy Uncovered with Dr Isabelle De Groote

17:30 29 October 2012
5.30pm. Following the BBC Two series Prehistoric Autopsy, Dr Isabelle De Groote, gives us a greater insight into three of the most iconic members of our prehistoric family: A Neanderthal,…

Brainstorm: Sight and action

11:00 - 15:00 30 October 2012
11am-3pm. Find out how the eye and brain give us the ability to see. Explore how good your own sight is and what conditions can affect vision, and discover how closely vision, action…

Mummifying oranges

12:30 - 15:30 31 October 2012
Wednesday 31 October & Friday 2 November, 12.30-1.30pm & 2.30-3.30pm. Don your lab coats and roll up your sleeves for this hands-on workshop, where you will find out more about the…

The Manchester Museum Mummy Walk

13:00 - 17:30 31 October 2012
1-5.30pm in Piccadilly Gardens. Fancy a family Halloween celebration with a difference this year? Then come along to Piccadilly Gardens and be part of The Manchester Museum Mummy…

The first CSI: Bloodhounds and crime scent investigation

12:30 - 15:30 1 November 2012
12.30-1.30pm & 2.30-3.30pm. Bloodhounds have the ability to track other animals and people by the power of smell. Meet Victorian dog detectives, Barnaby and Burgho, and explore the…

Alan Turing in Manchester: His last years and legacy

11:00 - 12:00 2 November 2012
11am-12pm. 2012 marks the centenary of Alan Turing, the computer visionary who spent his last six years at The University of Manchester. In his final work, Turing moved away from designing…

Boyd Dawkins: Ancient worlds cave hunter

13:00 - 14:00 2 November 2012
1-2pm. Join historian Leucha Veneer in this talk to find out more about William Boyd Dawkins, the Manchester Museum’s first curator. He hunted, found and recorded tools from Neolithic…

Mummifying oranges

12:30 - 15:30 2 November 2012
Wednesday 31 October & Friday 2 November, 12.30-1.30pm & 2.30-3.30pm. Don your lab coats and roll up your sleeves for this hands-on workshop, where you will find out more about the…

Standing on the shoulders of giants

17:30 - 18:30 2 November 2012
5.30-6.30pm. Building upon the knowledge of others over many generations, known as cumulative cultural evolution, is arguably unique to humans and possibly responsible for our success…

Turing text - Postponed

19:00 - 21:00 2 November 2012
Due to delays in the programming of the 'Turing Text' game (an interactive creative writing social media game), this Friday's event 'Turing Texts' has had to be postponed until the…

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