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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…

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,…

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…

After Hours: Look200

18:30 - 21:00 6 November 2014
Thurs 6 Nov, 6.30-9pm. Join us for an evening of art and music as we explore the ideas behind Look200, an art meets science project by artist Lucy Burscough. Look200 celebrates and…

Thursday Tours: Audio descriptive

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

Thursday Tours: Audio descriptive

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

Thursday Tours: Money

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2014
Thurs 13 Nov, 3pm. Tour round the Money gallery picking out coins from Britain's past.

Wonderstruck

15 - 16 November 2014
Sat 15 & Sun 16 Nov, performances begin at 11am and 1.30pm It’s not what you know, it’s what you do. Come and hear the sound of a hundred voices as choirs and performers from across…

Northern Knap In

10:00 - 16:00 19 November 2014
Wed 19 Nov, 10am-4pm. How were stone tools made? What is experimental archaeology? This one-day event, organised by archaeology postgraduate research students from the University of…

Thursday Tours: Natural History

15:00 20 November 2014
Thurs 20 Nov, 3pm. Explore our natural history galleries, such as Fossils, Living Worlds, Nature's Library and the live animals in the Vivarium.

Big Saturday: Dinosaurs

11:00 - 16:00 22 November 2014
Sat 22 Nov, 11am-4pm. Venture to the Museum to meet Stan the T.rex and our newest dinosaur, Gorgosaurus, a smaller cousin of the T.rex (7.3m long, 2.6m high). Hear Stan talk for the…

Early Opening for Early Birds

09:00 - 10:00 22 November 2014
Sat 22 Nov, 9-10am. Are you and your young children up with the Larks and excited to get out and about and exploring? Why not come along to Manchester Museum's Fossils gallery for our…

Thursday Tours: Mummy portraits

15:00 27 November 2014
Thurs 27 Nov, 3pm. Take a closer look at our Egyptian Mummy portraits.

Collection Bites: Art from Papua

13:00 - 14:00 3 December 2014
Wed 3 Dec, 1-2pm. Trainee Curator Kiera Gould will talk about the Museum’s significant collections from New Guinea. She will look particularly at objects acquired in the 1970s as part…

Thursday Tours: Audio descriptive

15:00 4 December 2014
Thurs 4 Dec, 3pm. For people who have a visual impairment.

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