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Big Saturday: World Music

11:00 - 16:00 21 September 2013
Big Saturday: World Music Saturday 21 September, 11am-4pm Drop-in, free, all ages Manchester Museum is dedicating a whole Big Saturday to some of the professional world musicians…

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…

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…

Manchester Museum Book Club

17:30 - 18:30 24 September 2013
Buy a glass of wine or cup of coffee, meet people and discuss books inspired by our Nature's Library gallery and brought to life by Museum objects. This month's book is Shackleton's…

Skulls, death and the Dark Ages

13:00 - 14:00 24 September 2013
Skulls, death and the Dark Ages Tuesday 24 September 1-2pm Book on 0161 275 2648 or museum@manchester.ac.uk, free, adults Bryan Sitch will explain what the discovery of 1400-year-old…

Ice Age to Iron Age 10 week WEA course

14:45 - 16:45 25 September 2013
This course will explore our human past through archaeological sites and past events across Europe, including the cave art that emerged 30,000 years ago, the Stone Age villages of the…

Taster Tour of Roman Objects

13:00 25 - 14:00 26 September 2013
Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 September Taster Tour of Roman Objects 1pm- 2pm The Manchester Museum has a fascinating collection of Roman objects. Manchester itself was a Roman fort,…

Magic Carpet

10:30 - 12:30 27 September 2013
Magic Carpet Friday 27 September, 10.30-11.30am & 11.30am-12.30pm Book on 0161 275 2648 (from a week before), free, under 5s and their families/carers. Storytelling and activity…

Roman Manchester

11:00 28 - 16:00 29 September 2013
Saturday 28 September and Sunday 29 September Roman Manchester 11am-4pm Pop along to our Family Drawing Den and make a Roman shield or sword. In association with #BeingRoman from the British Museum

Urban Naturalist: Moss

14:00 - 16:00 28 September 2013
Urban Naturalist: Moss Saturday 28 September, 2-4pm Book on 0161 275 2648 or museum@manchester.ac.uk, £3 Urban Naturalist is a series of friendly, practical workshops run by leading…

Wildlife recording

18:00 - 20:00 28 September 2013
Building up a picture of which species occur where in Greater Manchester is vital to ensure species protection and to enable changes in distribution to be monitored. This six week course…

Manchester Museum sings

14:00 - 16:00 29 September 2013
Fancy an afternoon of singing songs from around the world inspired by the Manchester Museum's collections? Join Caroline Bithell, ethnomusicologist from the University of Manchester…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 1 October 2013
Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren’t walking yet. Tuesdays 1 & 15 October (every other Tuesday, except school hols), 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm…

Collection Bites

13:00 - 14:00 2 October 2013
Flint: Hewn through Nature Join Dr Nick Merriman, Director of the Manchester Museum for a unique insight into prehistoric Britain. View Palaeolithic hand axes half a million years…

After Hours: Warriors of the Plains

18:30 - 21:00 4 October 2013
Explore the Warriors of the Plain and Living Cultures gallery for our After Hours in October. See museum objects normally in store, have a go at Native American beading with crafter…

Grandparents Weekend

11:00 5 - 16:00 6 October 2013
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 October 11am-4pm, drop in, free. Bring the whole family for fun drop-in activities. Sat 5 Be amazed and inspired by the magnificent variety of animals, insects…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 8 October 2013
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop-in, free

90 Degree Citizen

10 October - 17 November 2013
How do museums create our understandings of cultural identities, and does migrant art generate alternative connections which cut across such boundaries? A rare exhibition of work by…

90 Degree Citizen Opening Event: In conversation with artists and curators

18:30 - 20:30 10 October 2013
Hosted by writer and poet Sai Murai, artists will talk about their work alongside social, political and museological contexts that have been drawn out by the curators including the…

Poetry & Medicine workshop

10:00 - 12:00 12 October 2013
Poetry & Medicine: an unlikely combination? Discuss poetry by patients and staff worldwide that moves, surprises and "opens the windows" between medicine and the arts. Poetry newcomers…

‘Open the Windows’ Poetry & Medicine reading

14:00 - 15:30 12 October 2013
In 2007, Rebecca Goss's newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed at the hospital where Denise Bundred worked. However, they only met later as poets, writing about their respective experiences…

Little Red Hen

14:00 - 15:00 13 October 2013
The Puppetellers present the much loved classic tale of The Little Red Hen. The Little Red Hen lives in the farmyard. One day she finds three grains of wheat and decides to make some…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 15 October 2013
Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren’t walking yet. Tuesdays 1 & 15 October (every other Tuesday, except school hols), 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm…

Shackleton’s Man Goes South: Tony White in conversation with Gregory Norminton

19:30 - 21:00 15 October 2013
Acclaimed author Tony White was commissioned by the Science Museum to write a new work of fiction exploring the potential political, social and cultural impacts of climate change. The…

The Palace of Curiosities: Rosie Garland & Victorian sideshow act

19:30 - 21:30 16 October 2013
Join author Rosie Garland and Victorian sideshow performers for an evening of mystery and excitement in the atmospheric Fossils gallery at Manchester Museum. Rosie will read from her…

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