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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…

Enchanting tales

11:00 - 12:00 9 November 2013
Join the Library’s storyteller in one of our beautiful book-lined rooms, for tales of magic, mystery, mayhem and more! The October event is most suitable for families with children…

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.…

Here be Dragons!

12:00 - 13:00 9 November 2013
The walls and ceilings of the Library are full of strange and mysterious creatures – join our tour to seek them out! This tour is most suitable for families with children aged 5-10.

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 University Music Society (MUMS) -Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensembles

19:30 - 21:30 9 November 2013
Mendelssohn Overture for Winds, Op.24 Woolfenden Suite Française Roxburgh Time’s Harvest Mozart Overtures to Der Schauspieldirektor and Idomeneo Haydn Symphony No.100, ‘Military’…

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! 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…

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…

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.

Textermination and the pleasures of experimental fiction

14:00 - 15:00 9 November 2013
Textermination, Christine Brooke-Rose’s 1992 novel, depicts characters from literature who gather to pray to readers for their continued existence. Join us to examine the role of the…

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…

Woodcut n colour

11:00 - 15:00 9 November 2013
Join us to celebrate the launch of our very own Rylands colouring book – featuring woodcuts from our amazing collections and prints of the building created by our competition winners.

Make your own Morbid Miscellany

13:00 - 16:00 10 November 2013
Put together your own morbid collection of spells, charms, drawings and other gruesome artefacts.

HCRI Annual Landmark Lecture: The Moral Legitimacy of Humanitarian Action

17:30 - 18:30 11 November 2013
The annual HCRI public lecture series is designed to provide a public forum for engagement and debate about broad reaching humanitarian issues. We are delighted to welcome David Rieff…

HCRI Landmark Lecture with David Rieff: The Moral Legitimacy of Humanitarian Action

17:30 - 20:00 11 November 2013
David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central…

Museology Research Seminar: Locating Tibetan Art: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet 1903-4

17:00 - 18:30 11 November 2013
Dr. Clare Harris, Reader in Visual Anthropology and Curator for Asian Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Focusing on the Younghusband Mission of 1903-4, this paper argues that…

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…

CIDRAL open event: Professor Li Wei (Birkbeck) "Cultural Encounters in Transnational Multilingual Families"

17:00 - 19:00 12 November 2013
For many transnational families, bilingualism and multilingualism mean different things to different generations: For the first generation migrant adults (parents), learning new languages…

Guided campus visits for school and college groups

13:30 - 15:30 12 November 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…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 13 November 2013
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 13 November 2013
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

Whimsical Wednesday Workshop - shadow cutting

11:00 - 16:00 13 November 2013
An ancient tradition from all over the world, paper cutting is a fun and therapeutic activity, which will provide you with a beautiful memento of your Wednesday afternoon.

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