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B.15:45 Architecture modelmaking exhibition: Celebrating 45 years of the B.15 modelmaking workshop

1 September 2014 - 31 December 2015
2015 marks 45 years of the Kantorowich B.15 modelmaking workshop at The University of Manchester. The B.15:45 exhibition is a retrospective look at the last 45 years of modelmaking…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 27 February 2015
We apologise for the cancellation of this tour. Other tours are available on future dates.

Later-Day Saints

23 January - 28 June 2015
Our ancestors often relied on their beliefs to make sense of their world - is there an equivalent in our modern world of celebrity and material culture? Later-Day Saints brings the…

Loving Illumination - Paintings of Light

4 December 2014 - 29 March 2015
In this exhibition artist Judith Hurst explores the interconnectivity of science, maths, religion and art. Working on vellum, and using inlays of exotic wood and precious metals, Judith…

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).

Manchester Universities String Society

13:10 - 14:00 27 February 2015
Manchester Universities String Society brings together some of the finest string players in Manchester to perform exciting works from the string orchestra repertoire on the back of their first semester success.

Merchants of Print: from Venice to Manchester

29 January - 21 June 2015
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Aldus Manutius (1449 – 1515), an Italian humanist scholar who founded the Aldine Press at Venice. His publishing legacy includes scholarly…

Printing Press Demonstration

10:00 - 14:00 27 February 2015
Drop in and see our printing press in action. Try your hand at making your own print.

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CONCERT TAKES PLACE AT MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN THE NEW MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL THEATRE

19:30 - 21:30 27 February 2015
Mendelssohn Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 Weinberg Quartet No. 16, Op. 130 Schubert Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810, ‘Death and the Maiden’ Death and…

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,…

Understanding social trust and other social behaviours – a transatlantic dialogue

10:30 - 16:00 27 February 2015
A CMIST research group workshop is due to take place. Details below: 10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee 11:00-12:00 Ric Uslaner, University of Maryland, the USA “Diversity, Segregation,…

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…

Gay Writers and Poets of the First World War

12:30 - 13:30 28 February 2015
As part of LGBT history month, Matthew Schofield will present a close-up session on gay writers and poets of the First World War, including Rupert Brook, Edward Carpenter, Wilfred Owen…

MANTIS Spring 2015 Festival

18:00 - 19:30 28 February 2015
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, Canada) and Metanast (Manchester). Local…

MANTIS Spring 2015 Festival

20:00 - 22:00 28 February 2015
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, Canada) and Metanast (Manchester). Local…

University of Manchester Heritage Tour

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2015
Come and discover how Manchester helped make the modern world... Our heritage tours lead visitors around some of the University's oldest and finest building whilst telling the history…

Jeanette Winterson “In Conversation” with Patrick Marber

16:00 - 18:30 1 March 2015
Jeanette Winterson is an award winning writer whose credits include the Prix d’argent from Cannes for Best TV screenplay Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and a BAFTA for Best Drama. She…

MANTIS Spring 2015 Festival

14:00 - 16:00 1 March 2015
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, Canada) and Metanast (Manchester). Local…

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…

MCCIR AZ/GSK Update Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 2 March 2015
Negative regulation of the skin immune system in health and disease - A. E. Saunders The balance between tolerance and immunity is important throughout the body. At barrier sites this…

NIHR Themed Call Seminar | Multi-Morbidities in Older People

12:00 - 14:00 2 March 2015
'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health '''About the event:''' A free seminar from the NIHR Research Design Service North West (RDS NW). Lunch is included (booking essential).…

Recent Late Quaternary paleoanthropological discoveries in West Turkana, Kenya

12:00 - 13:00 2 March 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015

Womb Transplants – The race is Over!

2 March 2015
Amel Alghrani (Senior lecturer, University of Liverpool, and a Manchester alumna and ex-member of staff here) will give this weeks Senior Seminar, in which she will reflect on the legal,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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