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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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Salvation in Galatians - Peter Oakes

14:00 - 16:00 24 October 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. 90 minutes followed by tea.

From Daguerre to Digital

12:00 - 14:00 24 October 2013
Discover the wealth of Photography that can be found amongst the Library’s Collections, including works by Roger Fenton, Henry Peach Robinson and more!

Guided visits for Schools and Colleges

13:30 - 15:30 24 October 2013
We run regular campus visits throughout the year for groups of students in Year 10 and upwards. Activities include a welcome presentation, a question-and-answer session with a panel…

Homer, Virgil and the temple of Apollo at Pompeii

16:55 - 18:30 24 October 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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…

Manchester Science Festival - The Bug Hunt

24 October - 3 November 2013
Can you find all the bugs in the library? Follow the trail to find the Library’s hidden bugs – find out what they are and why they are bad for books.

Morbid Micellany

14 October 2013 - 31 January 2014
Behold bizarre bindings! Delight in death! Gaze in awe at aged autographs! Our Morbid Miscellany embraces the darker side of our collections. This selection of individual items, many…

Musicology Forum: 'Voices & Viols, Bibles & Bindings: The Origins of the Blossom Partbooks'

16:15 - 17:45 24 October 2013
Ross Duffin (Case Western Reserve University), 'Voices & Viols, Bibles & Bindings: The Origins of the Blossom Partbooks'

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…

Portrait of a Living Archive

3 October 2013 - 13 January 2014
When people think about libraries they tend to think of them as the ancestral home of written rather than visual culture. The John Rylands Library houses a significant collection of…

Rock Drop: Geology identification sessions

14:00 - 15:00 24 October 2013
Our Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, will be in the Collections Study Centre once a month to answer your questions and identify your rocks and fossils. Drop-in, free, Collections Study Centre (Floor 3)

Snowballs in Space!

10:00 21 October - 17:00 1 November 2013
Find out all about comets, asteroids and meteors in this interactive science show. Discover what comets are and where they come from, and watch us make our very own comet for everyone…

The Ethics of Discipleship (R&T Seminar Series) - Michael Hoelzl

16:00 - 17:30 24 October 2013
Michael Hoelzl gives the third in this year's Religions and Theology seminar series.

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…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Featured Artist: Richard Casey (Piano)

13:10 - 14:00 24 October 2013
Beethoven Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 Beethoven Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia Op. 27 No. 2 Chopin Fugue Iannis Xenakis Evryali Richard Casey’s first Beethoven and recital this year…

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…

Churches, Communities, and Society: Public Negotiations and Interventions

09:00 25 - 17:00 26 October 2013
In contemporary British society, Christian religion refuses to stay in its place. Unruly, it is established in some places (England, Scotland) and yet in all places numerically in decline;…

Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

25 October 2013 - 4 May 2014
This exhibition at Manchester Museum is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa.…

Magic Carpet

10:30 - 12:30 25 October 2013
Storytelling and activity session for under 5s and their families/carers. Friday 25 October, 10.30-11.30am & 11.30am-12.30pm Book on 0161 275 2648 (from a week before), free, under 5s and their families/carers

Big Saturday: World of Frogs

11:00 - 16:00 26 October 2013
Hop along to Manchester Museum for not only a mind boggling, but eye boggling day of Family Arts Festival fun, as we celebrate the re-opening of the Museum’s Vivarium (Live Animals)…

Exhibition tour of Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land

13:00 - 13:45 26 October 2013
Prof. Benjamin Kankpeyeng leads an exclusive tour of our new exhibition exploring the background to the fieldwork that led to the figurines discovery, and investigates the meaning and…

New Music North West Festival

26 October - 2 November 2013
New Music North West Festival Saturday 26 October – Saturday 2 November 2013 Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama The RNCM and The University of Manchester are delighted to…

Reopening of the Vivarium

26 October 2013
On 26 October 2013 the doors to Manchester Museum’s Vivarium (the ‘Live Animals’ gallery) will re-open to the public following a complete re-interpretation of the gallery. The Museum…

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