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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 14:15 13 November 2012
Every other Tues, 10.30-11.15am, 12.30-1.15pm, 1.30-2.15pm. Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren’t walking yet.

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

12:00 - 13:00 13 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.

After Hours: Ancient Worlds

18:30 - 21:30 15 November 2012
6.30-9.30pm. With a contemporary twist on the ancient world, explore the new Ancient Worlds galleries at night and meet the people who created them. Mummify an orange, go on mini tours…

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

12:00 - 13:00 15 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.

Big Saturday: Ancient Worlds

11:00 - 16:00 17 November 2012
11am-4pm. Step back in time and explore the newly opened Ancient Worlds galleries. Get to grips with archaeology as you have a go and see what you can find in our dig boxes. Handle…

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

12:00 - 13:00 20 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.

Showcase lecture: Chemical imaging of art, archaeology and palaeontology

15:00 - 16:30 21 November 2012
3-4.30pm. With Phil Manning, The University of Manchester. This talk will explore the application of synchrotron-based imaging that yields high resolution (2-100 micron) and highly…

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

12:00 - 13:00 22 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.

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