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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…

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)…

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;…

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…

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.…

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 - All About Bugs

13:00 - 16:00 26 October 2013
Come along and take part in our bug-tastic activity day. Make bug badges, and enjoy other craft activities, while learning all about the naughty bugs that damage books and libraries.

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.

MANTIS Fall Festival 2013

18:00 - 19:30 26 October 2013
MANTIS Fall Festival 2013 6pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 8pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 2pm, Sunday 27 October 2013 MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a weekend of…

MANTIS Fall Festival 2013

20:00 - 22:00 26 October 2013
MANTIS Fall Festival 2013 6pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 8pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 2pm, Sunday 27 October 2013 MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a weekend of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

Urban Naturalist: Bees

14:00 - 16:00 26 October 2013
The wide variety of flowering plants in urban areas is good news for honey bees. Manchester Museum’s own beehive has seen bees buzzing around our allotment since the summer of 2013.…

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…

A pomander a day keeps the plague away...

13:00 - 16:00 27 October 2013
Learn how to make a pomander to keep awayt those filthy plague germs. An essential perfumed accessory in the 1600s!

MANTIS Fall Festival 2013

14:00 - 16:00 27 October 2013
MANTIS Fall Festival 2013 6pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 8pm, Saturday 26 October 2013 2pm, Sunday 27 October 2013 MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a weekend of…

Nose-wise: A Smelly Talk and Walk of Manchester

11:00 - 13:00 27 October 2013
What does Manchester smell like? Follow your nose for a family session highlighting the important role that the sense of smell plays in our experience of the world. Enjoy an interactive…

Manchester Science Festival - The Compatibility Gene

12:00 - 13:00 28 October 2013
Join Daniel M Davis, author of The Compatibility Gene, for a discussion of the crucial genes that hold the key to who we are as individuals and our relationship to the world, how our…

Oct half-term

11:00 28 October - 16:00 1 November 2013
Discover more about the science behind the colour of animals and create colourful creatures inspired by our newly opened Nature’s Library & Vivarium (Live Animals) galleries. Part…

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