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Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 10 June 2014
Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when there are drop-in sensory play sessions) Book…

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Cabinets of Curiosities: How disability was kept in a box

18:30 - 22:00 10 June 2014
Tues 10 June: 6.30-10.00pm Join critically acclaimed actor and performance artist Mat Fraser for a journey through the history of disability – a history lesson with a difference. Mat…

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From the War of Nature

11 April - 31 August 2014
Manchester Museum new exhibition. Boxing hares, burrowing parasites, baby birds and prowling wolves are just some of the characters appearing in this story of predation, competition,…

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Whitworth Park: Pleasure, Play and Politics

24 May - 5 October 2014
This exhibition examines and explores how the role of Manchester’s Whitworth Park has changed over time. The displays are the result of a local archaeology project and the myriad of…

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Big Saturday: Ideas for Life

11:00 - 16:00 14 June 2014
Sat 14 June, 11am-4pm Come along and bring all the family to a day of discovery. Become mini researchers and find out how bananas, meteorites, dinosaurs and frogs are linked together…

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Adult Learners week taster sessions

13:00 18 - 14:00 20 June 2014
Adult Learners week taster sessions Dip into the Museum’s adult learning programme – Museum Meets for some taster sessions as part of Adult Learner’s Week Taster Tours…

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Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 24 June 2014
Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when there are drop-in sensory play sessions) Book…

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Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project

18:00 - 20:00 24 June 2014
Tue 24 Jun, 6-8pm Drop-in, free Meet the exhibition’s project team as they share the fascinating discoveries from their dig. Find out more about excavation and excavation surveys,…

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Magic Carpet

10:30 - 12:30 27 June 2014
Fri 27 June, 10.30-11.30 & 11.30 – 12.30 Story making and activity sessions. For toddlers up to 5yrs and their families/carers (Young babies welcome with older siblings) Book on 0161…

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Urban Naturalist: Geology Garden

14:00 - 16:00 28 June 2014
Sat 28 June, 2-4pm Woo dale Limetsone, Shap Granite and Miller’s Dale Lave are all rocks that feature in the Manchester Museum geology garden. Join Amanda Edwards, Curator and Resource…

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Collection Bites: Excavation, how, why and what?

13:00 - 14:00 2 July 2014
Join Hannah Cobb, Lecturer in Archaeology, and hear about the Whitworth Park excavation project and finds. Book on 0161 275 2648 ormuseum@manchester.ac.uk, free Wed 2 Jul, 1.05 -2pm

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Rock Drop: Geology Identification Sessions

14:00 - 15:00 3 July 2014
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.

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Big Saturday: Parklife

11:00 - 16:00 12 July 2014
A day of discovery for all the family. Inspired by our new temporary exhibition, Whitworth Park: Pleasure, Play & Politics, come to this month’s Big Saturday: Parklife to find out more…

Family enjoyingan event at The Manchestetr Museum

Global Explorer

11:00 21 July - 16:00 29 August 2014
Mon 21 Jul - Fri 29 August 2014 11am-4pm Travel the world this summer without leaving Manchester! Go back in time and across the globe. Bring the family and set some Manchester Museum World Records of your own.

Family enjoying an event at The Manchester Museum

Wonders of the World

11:00 21 July - 16:00 31 August 2014
Come and get crafty at Manchester Museum this summer. Make junk model creations inspired by the collections 11am-4pm Drop in, free Mon 21 Jul– Sun 3 Aug Archaeology (& Ancient Worlds)…

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Become a Dementia Friend at Manchester Museum

12:00 - 13:00 23 July 2014
12-1pm. Staff at Manchester Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery are becoming part of a wider dementia friendly community due to a new Government funded initiative run by the Alzheimer’s…

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Conservation on Show

12:00 - 14:00 23 July 2014
Meet the Museum’s conservation team and gain an insight into techniques used with objects on show in the Whitworth Park: Pleasure, Play & Politics exhibition. Drop-in, free, age 7+

Mother and child looking through a microscope. c Victoria Haydn

Archaeology & Play

13:00 - 14:30 25 July 2014
Fri 25 Jul, 1-2.30pm Get to grips with archaeology and discover what it can tell us about play in the past. See and handle some finds from Whitworth Park and enjoy playing with some…

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Urban Naturalist: Parklife

14:00 - 16:00 26 July 2014
2-4pm. Join Phil Rispin, Curatorial Assistant of Entomology, to find out more about the insects and plant life that has been found at Whitworth Park during previous BioBlitz events…

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Urban Naturalist: Parklife

14:00 - 16:00 26 July 2014
Get practical tips on insect identification with Phil Rispin, Curatorial Assistant of Entomology, and find out what you can spot living in your local urban environments. Book on 0161…

Family enjoyingan event at The Manchestetr Museum

Big Saturday: Travel the World

11:00 - 16:00 2 August 2014
Travel the world this summer without leaving Manchester, travelling back in time and across the globe, enjoying and engaging with the varied inspiring objects you can see at the Museum.…

Baby Explorer sessions in the Nature Discovery gallery. c Joe Gardner

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 5 August 2014
Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when there are drop-in sensory play sessions) Book…

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Collection Bites: Out of the Blue

13:00 - 14:00 6 August 2014
Join Irit Narkiss as she explains her investigative conservation of a Romano-Egyptian faience pot. The development of the Ancient Worlds Galleries was an opportunity to examine and…

Child enjoying an event at The Manchestetr Museum

National Playday

11:00 - 15:00 6 August 2014
11am-3pm. Come along and enjoy playful surprises at Manchester Museum.

Dream catcher

13:00 - 15:30 12 August 2014
Thurs 7 Aug & Tues 12 Aug, 1-3.30pm. Join Winston poet & dream catcher underneath our enormous whale skeleton. Once there he will help you bring to life the dreams of our whale and…

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