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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Alan Turing: Tortured genius of the computer age

12:00 3 November 2012
12-2pm. Enjoy a guided walk celebrating Alan Turing, the brains behind the earliest achievement in the invention of computers, in what is his centenary year. Walk starts at the Manchester…

DNA: Can it predict your future health?

14:00 - 15:30 3 November 2012
2-3.30pm. DNA technologies have the potential to impact on us all and many people expect DNA testing to become routine within medicine. What can your DNA reveal? Will we all become…

Space lizards ate my sister!

14:00 - 15:30 4 November 2012
2-3.30pm. Children’s author Mark Griffiths talks about writing comedy science fiction for children and reads from his latest book Space Lizards Ate My Sister! Plus there’s a chance…

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

12:00 - 13:00 6 November 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.

“Senwosret is Satisfied”: Life at Kahun

18:00 - 20:00 7 November 2012
6-8pm. Uncover the lives of the women who lived, worked and died in the ancient Egyptian town of Kahun, built to house priests and workers who serviced the nearby pyramid of King Senwosret…

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

12:00 - 13:00 8 November 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.

Wildlife recording course

18:00 - 20:00 8 November 2012
Thurs 8 & 22 Nov, 6 Dec, 10 & 24 Jan, 7 Feb, 6-8pm. Building up a picture of which species occur where in Greater Manchester is vital to ensure species protection and to enable changes…

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