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Christmas Holidays at Manchester Museum

11:00 23 December 2013 - 16:00 5 January 2014
Plenty of festive family fun over the holiday period at Manchester Museum. Come in from the cold and create fanciful photo frame gifts inspired by the Museum's collection. Mon 23,…

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.…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Magic Carpet

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

Tours of Manchester Museum

6 - 31 January 2014
Taster tours Every Wednesday & Thursday, 1pm Drop-in (no need to book), free, meet at the Information Desk (Floor G) Come and join one of our Visitor Services Assistants for a tour…

BBC Stargazing LIVE Returns

20:30 7 - 22:00 9 January 2014
Stargazing LIVE returns on 7th, 8th & 9th January 2014! – Don’t forget to watch on BBC2! Please note there will be no public access whilst filming takes place after 5pm. The centre…

Coral Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 7 January 2014
Join us for our under the sea inspired interactive story and sensory play sessions. For babies who aren’t walking yet. Tues 7 January 2013 10.30-11.15am, 11.30-12.15am, 1- 1.45 pm…

Speed Networking - Research with children, young people and families - make connections and find new research partners

12:00 - 15:00 7 January 2014
Speed Networking

Wunderkammer

17:00 - 19:00 9 January 2014
Take a tour of the Bona Eek exhibition and then join in a personal archive session – bring along your photos, documents and stories to add your voice to the Polari Mission!

Enchanting tales

11:00 - 12:00 11 January 2014
Join the Library’s storyteller in one of our beautiful book-lined rooms, for tales of magic, mystery, mayhem and more! This event is most suitable for families with children aged 7 and under.

Here be Dragons!

12:00 - 13:00 11 January 2014
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.

Stargazing LIVE family event

10:00 - 17:00 11 January 2014
If you've been inspired by Brian Cox and Dara O Briain, come along to our Stargazing LIVE event and give astronomy a go! If you look up into the night sky, there is a whole world of…

Wildlife photography course

10:00 - 17:00 11 January 2014
A rare opportunity to photograph Manchester Museum’s frogs and reptiles with professional wildlife photographer Chris Mattison. This one day course will be conducted over 7 hours:…

Stargazing LIVE family event

10:00 - 17:00 12 January 2014
If you've been inspired by Brian Cox and Dara O Briain, come along to our Stargazing LIVE event and give astronomy a go! If you look up into the night sky, there is a whole world of…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 13 January 2014
Ludwig van Beethoven Duo in E flat major WoO 32 ‘Eyeglass’ Christina Bean viola Lorna Davis cello Claude Debussy Musique; Romance-Silence ineffable; Aimons-nous et dormons…

The spreading of protein misfolding diseases: beyond a fly model

15:30 14 January 2014
Characteristic protein aggregates are associated with many of the neurodegenerative diseases that are increasingly common in our ageing population. Of particular interest is Alzheimer's…

Active Touch sensing in animals and robots

16:00 - 17:00 15 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Special seminar series

Adults Returning to Education Information Session

10:30 - 12:30 15 January 2014
Adult learners considering returning to education to pursue a degree, or who have already applied to the University, can sign up for an 'Adults Returning to Education Session'. This…

Art and archaeology in the ancient Mediterranean world

14:45 - 16:45 15 January 2014
An insight into the lives of the people of the many ancient cultures that flourished around the Mediterranean before the arrival of the Roman Empire. We’ll link places and artefacts…

Whimsical Wednesday Workshop - A riot of colour!

11:00 - 16:00 15 January 2014
Make your own decorative paste papers – get messy with colour and paste!

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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