Manchester Museum

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…

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,…

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.

Artists and Archive Film Screening

19:00 - 21:00 11 December 2014
Thurs 11 Dec, 7-9pm in the Living Worlds Gallery. Manchester Museum in association with Bigger Picture Film Festival present a programme of artist films using archive footage and live…

Entomology with Helen Clare

18:00 - 20:00 11 December 2014
Thurs 11 Dec, 6-8pm. Ex-science teacher, ex-literature development worker, ex-Arts Council Education Officer, Helen Clare has been professionally involved in just about anything that…

Rock Drop: Geology Identification Sessions

14:00 - 15:00 11 December 2014
Thurs 11 Dec, 2-3pm. Our Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, will be available once a month to answer your questions and identify your rocks and fossils.

Early Opening for Early Birds

09:00 - 10:00 13 December 2014
Sat 13 Dec, 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 Living Worlds gallery…

Winter Wonderland

11:00 - 16:00 13 December 2014
Sat 13 Dec, 11am-4pm. Discover woodland animals, birds, butterflies and insects in our new Nature Discovery gallery. A day full of nature inspired crafts and activities for all the…

Nature Discovery activities: Paper cut Christmas cards and New Years calendars

20 December 2014 - 4 January 2015
Sat 20 & Sun 21 Dec, Sat 27-Tues 30 Dec & Sat 3-Sun 4 Jan, 11am-4pm. Explore our newly opened Nature Discovery gallery and Siberia: At the Edge of the World exhibition. Be inspired…

A special screening of HOME

18:00 - 21:00 22 January 2015
Thurs 22 Jan, 6-9pm. Doors Open 6pm, Film Screening 6.30, Discussion/Q&A 8.30pm. A Bigger Picture Film Festival event - screening & discussion by Manchester Film Co-op of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's…

Big Saturday: Siberia

11:00 - 16:00 24 January 2015
Sat 24 Jan, 11am-4pm. Visit our ‘Siberia: At the Edge of the World’ exhibition and discover more about the culture and unique nature of this vast, mysterious land; one and a half…

Early Opening for Early Birds

09:00 - 10:00 24 January 2015
Sat 24 Jan, 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 ‘Siberia: At the Edge…

Making a living in Kamchatka: Daily Life and the Spirit World of the Koryak

14:00 - 15:00 24 January 2015
Sat 24 Jan, 2-3pm. Despite Stalin's persecution of shamans in the 1930s, shamanic practices of communicating with animals and spirits are still alive and well today. Koryaks are mindful…

Magic Carpet

10:30 - 12:30 30 January 2015
Fri 30 Jan, 10.30-11.30am & 11.30am-12.30pm. Story making and activity sessions. For toddlers up to 5yrs and their families/carers (Young babies welcome with older siblings)

Course: Manchester Museum sings

14:00 - 16:30 1 February 2015
Sun 1 Feb, 2-4.30pm. Fancy an afternoon of singing songs from around the world inspired by the Manchester Museum's collections? Join Caroline Bithell, ethnomusicologist from The University…

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