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Half-term activities – Living Worlds

11:00 16 - 16:00 20 February 2015
Mon 16-Fri 20 Feb, 11am-4pm. Be inspired by the butterflies and other flying animals on display in our Living Worlds gallery and create your very own paper butterflies and animals…

Rock Drop

14:00 19 February 2015
Thurs 19 Feb, 2-3pm. Our Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, will be in the Museum once a month to answer your questions and identify your rocks and fossils.

Romuald Hazoumè: Dance of the Butterflies

14 February - 29 July 2015
Dance of the Butterflies is a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists Romuald Hazoumè. It features swarms of multicoloured ‘butterflies’ which will take…

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,…

Tour of Siberia: At the Edge of the World

09:00 - 10:00 25 February 2015
Wed 11 Feb, 1pm & Wed 25 Feb, 9am. An informal tour of our temporary exhibition ‘Siberia: At the Edge of the World’ by one of the exhibition curators Dmitri Logunov. This photographic…

Magic Carpet

10:30 27 February 2015
Fri 27 Feb, 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).

Big Saturday: Climate Science Challenge

11:00 - 16:00 28 February 2015
Sat 28 Feb, 11am-4pm. Be a scientist for the day. Join researchers and curators in their quest to explore Earth’s climate. Discover how to reconstruct prehistoric environments, monitor…

Early Opening for Early Birds

09:00 - 10:00 28 February 2015
Sat 28 Feb, 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 Nature’s Library gallery…

Carry on Collecting: Sex, Gender & Ethnography at Manchester Museum

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2015
Mon 2 Mar, 1-2pm. Ethnographic collections formed in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were invariably informed by contemporaneous notions of gender and sex. The chiefly…

Innocent until proven guilty?

19:30 2 March 2015
Mon 2 Mar, 7.30pm. ‘Only 1,070 rapists are convicted every year despite up to 95,000 people – the vast majority of them women – suffering the trauma of rape – according to the new…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 3 March 2015
Tues 3 Mar, 1-2.30pm. Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion.

Forensic Science: A bog body mystery

13:30 - 16:30 7 March 2015
Sat 7 Mar, 1.30-4.30pm. To celebrate International Women’s Day and the Manchester Wonder Women season of events, take part in a hands-on practical science workshop with The University…

Why be normal?

19:30 10 March 2015
Tues 10 Mar, 7.30pm. The question Why Be Normal? is in one sense a challenge and a provocation: why do we have to act in conformity to long established cultural models, in particular…

Is there such a thing as a rational suicide?

19:30 17 March 2015
Tues 17 Mar, 7.30pm. Suicide is so often seen as an essentially irrational act, wrapped up with misunderstandings of mental illness and the causes of profound unhappiness. ‘If only…

Rock Drop: Geology Identification Sessions

14:00 - 15:00 19 March 2015
Thurs 19 Mar, 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.

Big Saturday: The Body Experience

11:00 - 16:00 21 March 2015
Sat 21 March, 11am-4pm. "(I learnt about) …Brain – all the different parts – the front part is personality. I want to be a doctor now!" Emma, age 5 and a half. “What a great day for…

Early Opening for Early Birds

09:00 - 10:00 21 March 2015
Sat 21 Mar, 9-10am. Are you and your young children up with the Larks and excited to get out and about and exploring? Come along to Manchester Museum's Living Worlds gallery for our…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 31 March 2015
Tues 31 Mar. 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm: Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when…

Collection Bites: Women and Weaving in the South Pacific Islands

13:00 - 14:00 1 April 2015
Wed 1 Apr, 1-2pm. Led by Alice Searle, aid worker and teacher, this hands on session will look at fans, baskets and mats from the islands of Fiji, Rotuma, Tonga and Tuvalu; islands…

Making Monuments on Rapa Nui. The Statues from Easter Island

1 April - 6 September 2015
1 April-6 September 2015 Free entry The monumental stone statues of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by European explorers) in the Pacific are some of the most widely recognised archaeological…

Easter Holiday Activities: Nature Discovery

11:00 6 - 16:00 19 April 2015
Mon 6-Sun 19 Apr, 11am-4pm. Explore, discover and make stories at Manchester Museum this Easter. Don’t miss a visit to our newly renovated Nature Discovery gallery for under 5s and…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 7 April 2015
Tues 7 April, 1-2.30pm. Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion.

Autism Friendly Early Opening: See, make & do at the Museum

09:15 - 10:30 11 April 2015
Sat 11 Apr, 9.15-10.30am. Autism Friendly: for families with children with autism and their siblings. Join us for our early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 14 April 2015
Tues 14 Apr, 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm: Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when…

Rock Drop: Geology Identification Sessions

14:00 - 15:00 23 April 2015
Thurs 23 Apr, 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.

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