Manchester Museum

Collection Bites: House-dwelling spiders

13:05 - 14:00 1 October 2014
Wed 1 Oct, 1.05-2pm. Dr. Dmitri Logunov will devote his talk to house-dwelling spiders, along with other invertebrates and insects, presenting a selection of entomological specimens.

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…

Manchester Museum Tour - Audio descriptive

15:00 - 16:00 2 October 2014
3pm. For people who have a visual impairment.

Chinese Painting Taster Course For Adults

13:00 - 16:00 4 October 2014
Ever fancied having a go at Chinese painting? Manchester Museum is running a Chinese painting taster course on Saturday 4, 11 & 18 October 1-4pm. £65 for 3 sessions. Places are limited…

Grandparents Weekend

11:00 4 - 16:00 5 October 2014
Sat 4 & Sun 5 Oct, 11am-4pm. Bring the whole family for fun drop-in activities. Enjoy Drawing Den activities in the Museum’s Discovery Centre and collect a family scrapbook and fill…

Siberia: At the Edge of the World

4 October 2014 - 1 March 2015
Until 1 March 2015. The first exhibition of its kind in the UK, Siberia: At the Edge of the World brings together natural history and cultural objects from British and Russian museums,…

See, share, make and tell...

11:00 - 16:00 5 October 2014
Sun 5 Oct, 11am-4pm. Come along to the Manchester Museum for our Meet the Artist event and enjoy the opportunity to create some artworks of your own, enjoy gallery tours and be inspired…

Manchester Literature Festival: Pascale Petit

19:00 8 October 2014
Wed 8 Oct, 7pm. Take a wild trip from the Rainy City to the City of Light. Join Manchester Prize-winning poet Pascale Petit as she launches her sixth collection, Fauverie. Her previous…

Manchester Museum Tour - Natures Library

15:00 - 16:00 16 October 2014
3pm. A chance to find out more about some of the key pieces from this collection.

Cave Hunting 140 Years On: Late Ice Age Humans in Britain

19:00 - 20:00 17 October 2014
Fri 17 Oct, 7-8pm. William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) was the first curator of the Manchester Museum and the first Professor of Geology in The University of Manchester. He pioneered many…

Manchester Museum Tour - Evolution

15:00 - 16:00 23 October 2014
3pm. Learn more about evolution, and famous naturalists like Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.

Old Wives Tales?

14:00 - 16:00 23 October 2014
Thurs 23 Oct, 2-4pm. Taking inspiration from the Museum's fascinating material medical collection, explore our relationship to medicine through conversation and creative writing. Chat…

Big Saturday: Science Spectacular

11:00 - 16:00 25 October 2014
11am-4pm. Calling all budding scientists! Come and take part in a range of challenging science quests. Find out how to make square bubbles, help us build an erupting volcano, and see…

Urban Naturalist: Bats

14:00 - 16:00 25 October 2014
Sat 25 Oct, 2-4pm. Do you know your Pipistrelle from your Noctule? These are just two of the 18 species of bats found in the UK. Join Steve Parker from the South Lancashire Bat Group…

Urban Naturalist: Bats

CT-scanning the Manchester Mummies

13:00 - 14:00 27 October 2014
Mon 27 Oct, 1-2pm. A new look beneath the bandages of several of the Manchester Museum’s 20 human mummies, examined using CT-scans and interpreted by former consultant Dr Bob Loynes.…

Ice Age Science: Mammoths, mega boulders and microscopes

11:00 27 - 13:00 31 October 2014
Mon 27-Fri 31 Oct, 11am-1pm. Meet the scientists at The University of Manchester who study ice age animals, plants, and landscapes. Take part in fun activities including cave painting…

Woolly Animals

11:00 27 - 16:00 31 October 2014
Mon 27-Fri 31 Oct, 11am-4pm. Visit 'Siberia: At the Edge of the World' and discover the science on how some animals survive in such a cold climate. Be inspired by bears and mammoths…

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Solar System

11:00 - 16:00 28 October 2014
Tues 28 Oct, 11am-4pm. Venture into the fascinating world of planetary science and learn about the formation and history of our Solar System. Hold and study real pieces of Mars, 4.5…

LEGO Mindstorm NXT Programming

13:00 - 15:30 29 October 2014
Wed 29 Oct, 1-3.30pm. Robogals Manchester is a chapter of an international student-led organisation that aims to increase women in STEM subjects by running robotics workshops in the…

Manchester Museum Tour - Building

15:00 - 16:00 30 October 2014
3pm. Learn more about the history of the building that houses our collection.

Rock Drop: Geology Identification Session

14:00 - 15:00 30 October 2014
2-3pm. 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.

Ants and Information

14:30 - 15:30 1 November 2014
Sat 1 Nov, 2.30-3.30pm. Ant colonies have an astounding ability to make coherent, collective decisions based on nothing more than the simple interactions between individual ants. This…

Collection Bites: Carbon: Innovation and Sustainability

13:00 - 14:00 5 November 2014
Wed 5 Nov, 1-2pm. Join Earth Sciences Curator, David Gelsthorpe, to find out about the amazing forms of Carbon in the Museum’s collection, from diamonds to coal. He will use the collection…

Thursday Tours: Audio descriptive

15:00 6 November 2014
Thurs 6 Nov, 3pm. For people who have a visual impairment.

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