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After Hours: World Music

18:30 - 21:00 12 September 2013
This event is from 6.30-9pm. In conjunction with the Cultural Collage World Music Festival 2013, Manchester Museum will be providing a rare opportunity to see a performance by a capella…

Baby Explorers

10:30 3 - 13:45 17 September 2013
Baby Explorers Tuesdays 3 & 17 September (every other Tuesday, except half term school hols), 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm Book on 0161 275 2648 (a week before), free,…

Collecting Trees

22 June - 6 October 2013
Trees are important to all of us. People plant trees to commemorate loved ones, climb them as children (and sometimes as adults) and worry about them being cut down. Collecting Trees…

HCRI Conference: Power and Peacebuilding

12 - 13 September 2013
Following the success of the HCRI conference "New Frontiers for Peacebuilding: Hybridity, Governance, and Local Agency" in September 2012, we are pleased to present this conference…

Locating Boccaccio in 2013

11 July - 20 December 2013
On the 700th anniversary of his birth, this exhibition celebrates the enduring popularity of the works of the Italian medieval author Giovanni Boccaccio. Taking a wide-ranging overview…

Lovell Lecture - Dr Scott Kay

19:30 - 21:00 12 September 2013
Building a Model Universe Dramatic progress has been made in the field of cosmology, the study of our Universe, over the past few decades. Using a wealth of available observational…

Picturing Stories: British and French Romantic Illustrations

9 August 2013 - 9 January 2014
This exhibition explores the development of French and British Romantic illustration during the period 1770-1860. In contrast to earlier allegorical images, Romantic pictures are full…

Polari Mission: Bona Eek

16 August 2013 - 2 February 2014
Polari's history is as diverse as the people who have used it. For the Polari Mission project artists Jez Dolan and Joseph Richardson have created a series of innovative visual artworks…

The Whitworth closure for major development work

2 September 2013 - 14 February 2015
The Whitworth reopens on Saturday 14 February 2015. The gallery is currently closed in order to carry out major development work, transforming the Gallery into a new 21st century Gallery…

Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual

25 May - 3 November 2013
Ceremonial shirts, moccasins and tomahawks, alongside photographs of these objects in use, bring to life the world of Native North American warfare and ritual from 1800 to the present…

World Quiz with live music

19:00 - 21:00 12 September 2013
Meet new people make friends by taking part in a world quiz night and helping your teammates win a prize!

Speed Meeting

19:00 - 22:00 13 September 2013
Come and meet other new students, and representatives from the Students' Union, and find out more about student societies and life in Manchester.

Welcome Guide for undergraduate Science Without Borders students

15:00 - 16:00 13 September 2013
Specialist session for students joining us for one year under the Brazilian Government’s undergraduate Science Without Borders scheme. The session will concentrate on course registration,…

Life on the edge

12:00 - 13:00 14 September 2013
What we find in the margins is almost as interesting as what is written on the page – sometimes more so! Join our manuscript curator for a fascinating look at some of the ‘marginalia’ in our collections.

Please note that this event was due to feature Seamus Heaney. We are very sorry to hear that Seamus Heaney has died: the leading English-language poet of our time and its greatest advocate for poetry.

18:30 - 20:30 14 September 2013
Paul Muldoon & Don Paterson Please note that this event was due to feature Seamus Heaney. 'We are very sorry to hear that Seamus Heaney has died: the leading English-language poet…

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