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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…

Colourful Chemistry

11:30 - 13:15 2 November 2013
Join us in Brainy and Brawny’s lab for this yucky hands-on workshop making slime, bubbles and rockets. This is a deaf-led event with BSL voiceover, suitable for deaf and hearing family…

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.…

NEW! Children’s Birthday Parties

1 - 30 November 2013
For a truly unique birthday experience, celebrate your birthday with Stan, the T-Rex & friends at Manchester Museum. The museum offers birthday parties that are full of hands-on activities…

Science Spectacular

11:00 - 16:00 2 November 2013
Join us on a whistle-stop tour of research at The University of Manchester and take part in some great science challenges. Go on a journey through the hidden body, take a closer look…

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…

Film screening of Thunderheart

14:00 - 16:00 3 November 2013
Our screening of Thunderheart 3.11.13 has unfortunately now been CANCELLED. Apologies for any inconvenience. #WarriorsOfThePlains closes Sunday. Loosely based on events surrounding…

How Small Can You Get? Entering and Defining the Nano World

17:00 - 18:00 3 November 2013
Professor Paul O’Brien explores all things nano, revealing the origins of nanoscience and nanotechnology, and discussing the potential importance of technologies based on nanodimensional…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 5 November 2013
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop-in, free.

Collection Bites

13:00 - 14:00 6 November 2013
Trading Well-being: The Materiality of Medicine and Religion at a Healers' Market, Accra, Ghana. Book on 0161 275 2648 or museum@manchester.ac.uk, free. In West Africa healing combines…

Happy Birthday Alfred Wallace

13:00 - 14:00 7 November 2013
Celebrate the life of Alfred Russel Wallace and see some of the specimens collected by Wallace himself. Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the greatest naturalists of the 19th and early…

Student Social: Wonders of the Natural World

19:00 - 22:00 9 November 2013
Come to a late night opening with live amphibians and music, workshops and natural world wonders to celebrate the re-opening of the Vivarium.

Baby Explorers

12 November 2013
Tuesdays 12 (every other Tuesday, except school hols), 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm Book on 0161 275 2648 (a week before), free, babies and their carers. Limited spaces…

Wildlife recording

18:00 14 - 20:00 28 November 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…

Dig It Archaeology Identification Session

12:00 - 13:00 15 November 2013
Our Curator of Archaeology, Bryan Sitch, will be in the Collections Study Centre to answer your questions and identify your archaeological finds. During the session Bryan will be recording…

Big Saturday: Ancient Faces & Places

11:00 - 16:00 16 November 2013
Discover, explore and get hands-on at the museum’s Ancient Faces & Places Big Saturday. Find out more about the people of ancient times through objects; how they used and made them.…

Molecule Hunt

11:00 - 15:00 23 November 2013
Come and get involved with Chemistry Week! We will have a number of molecules hidden around the Museum that are vital to everyday existence and keeping us healthy. Take part in our…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 26 November 2013
Tuesdays 26 November (every other Tuesday, except school hols), 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm Book on 0161 275 2648 (a week before), free, babies and their carers. Limited…

Manchester Museum Book Club

17:30 - 18:30 26 November 2013
Buy a glass of wine or cup of coffee, meet people and discuss books inspired by the Museum’s new Nature’s Library gallery and brought to life by Museum objects. This month's book is…

Rock Drop: Geology identification sessions

14:00 - 15:00 28 November 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)

Coral: Something Rich and Strange

29 November 2013 - 16 March 2014
Temporary exhibition at Manchester Museum. Explore the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries.…

Magic Carpet

10:30 - 13:30 29 November 2013
Storymaking and activity session for under 5s and their families/carers. Book on 0161 275 2648 (from a week before), free, under 5s and their families/carers

Hands on hieroglyphs – what do hieroglyphs mean?

10:00 - 16:00 30 November 2013
Hands on hieroglyphs – what do hieroglyphs mean? Ever looked into a museum case and wanted to know what the hieroglyphs mean? Join Egyptology curator Campbell Price to take the basic…

Urban Naturalist: Plant dyes

14:00 - 16:00 30 November 2013
From onion skins to teabags, madder roots to marigolds, expert dyer and textile artist Debbie Tomkies will be showing you some of the beautiful colours you can achieve with common items…

Learn To Crochet Coral Workshop

13:00 - 16:30 1 December 2013
Fancy learning how to crochet? Now's your chance! Help us to make Manchester's first Crochet Coral Reef which will be a part of our Coral: Something Rich and Strange exhibition, opening…

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