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Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:00 - 10:30 14 November 2015
Drop in, free, Autism Friendly: suitable for children and young people aged 5-16 with a parent or carer and siblings Join us for our early openings at the Museum aimed at children who…

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…

Bridging the digital divide

10:30 - 15:00 14 November 2015
Suitable for the General public. This is an open public event, at a fully accessible venue. There will be free parking and light refreshments available throughout the day. No prior…

Darkness and Light: a gothic tour

14:00 - 15:00 14 November 2015
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. Join us for an immersive behind-the-scenes tour of The John Rylands Library in all its Victorian gothic splendour; you’ll take in the original entrance…

Darkness and Light: Exploring Gothic

16 July 2015 - 10 January 2016
EXTENDED UNTIL 10 JANUARY This intriguing exhibition reveals how Gothic architecture and anatomy inspired and influenced a literary genre, and how the lasting legacy of Gothic can be…

Discovering Animal Mummies

10:00 - 16:00 14 November 2015
Book, mcrmuseum.eventbrite.com or phone 0161 275 2648 Millions of animal mummies have been discovered all over Egypt. British archaeologists have been among the leading excavators and…

Discovery Centre

11:00 14 - 16:00 15 November 2015
Drop into the Discovery Centre for drawing and other art activities inspired by the Museum's collection and pick up one of our free Museum activity sheets.

Each Thursday: Thursday Lates

18:00 23 July - 18:00 17 December 2015
Thursday Lates Our late night openings are the perfect place to meet friends and enjoy a selection of talks, performances, film screenings, live music and artist interventions. Thursday,…

First Saturday each month: Outdoor Art Club – Family Events – the Whitworth

11:00 1 August - 13:00 5 December 2015
Family activities at the Whitworth Outdoor Art Club On the first Saturday of each month 11am - 1pm. Free A workshop that brings art, nature and creativity together that takes…

Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed

8 October 2015 - 17 April 2016
A groundbreaking exhibition of over 60 animal mummies showing how modern science can help explain this ancient practice. Mummies of jackals, crocodiles, cats and birds are displayed…

Hard feelings: The science of emotion

10:30 - 15:00 14 November 2015
Our emotions are central to our lives – they allow us to figure out what we like and what we don't like and dictate how we should act in different situations. A number of key questions…

Making the modern world: England’s first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 14 November 2015
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble

19:30 - 21:30 14 November 2015
McCabe Canyons Mozart Oboe Concerto (with Soloist Lizzy Humphries) Weber Peter Schmoll Overture Beethoven Symphony No. 7 MUMS Chamber Orchestra returns for an evening of inspiring…

Noisy Bodies

1 October - 20 December 2015
Manchester-based contemporary artist Daksha Patel fuses art with science in this exclusive exhibition. Her intriguing work explores how scientific systems visualise, map and measure…

Telling Tales - Manchester Science Festival 2015 exhibition

19 October - 19 November 2015
'''Host:''' School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' ''Telling Tales'' is a collaboration between members of the Language Development and Disorders Research Group,…

The Phantoms of Congo River: Photographs by Nyaba Ouedraogo : Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 10 April 2016
Nyaba L. Ouedraogo is a self-taught photographer born in Burkina Faso, and now working and living between Paris and West Africa. The Phantoms of the Congo River is a photography exhibition…

The Study at Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 31 December 2016
Big ideas. Singular collaborations. Strange and wonderful things. Exhibitions and events with some of the most interesting people we know. And somewhere that brings them all together.…

Thursdays: Great Escape: Yoga – the whitworth

08:30 23 July - 08:30 10 December 2015
Great Escape: Yoga Thursday from 8:30am-9:45am No emails, texts, updates or alerts – yoga that takes full advantage of the Whitworth's peaceful setting - and some of its wonderful…

Wednesdays: Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 29 July - 08:30 16 December 2015
Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing Wednesday, from 8.30am to 9.30am £5 Tai-Chi for Wellbeing A traditional Chinese internal art for mind and body. Located in the peaceful setting…

Do policy mix characteristics matter for (eco-)innovation? A survey-based exploration for manufacturing of renewable power generation technologies in Germany

13:00 - 14:00 16 November 2015
The decarbonization of energy systems constitutes one of this century’s key challenges for human society in mitigating climate change. In such a transition so-called policy mixes play…

Introducing Spatial Presentation and Analysis

16 November 2015
This one day course is designed to introduce participants to preparing, presenting and analysing spatial data. The course uses Microsoft Excel and open source application QGIS 2.10,…

Life at the bio-geo interface; microbes with iron lungs

12:00 - 13:00 16 November 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series 2015

Piotr Goldstein: "Without the Foreigners, Without the State: Can civil society groups in Serbia manage without external funding?"

16:30 - 18:00 16 November 2015
All are welcome to attend the next talk in the Russian and East European Studies Research Seminar Series. Our speaker is Piotr Goldstein, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow based at…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR - 16 NOVEMBER 2015 - ANDREW SANCHEZ - KENT

16:00 - 18:00 16 November 2015
Title : "Profane Relations: The Irony of offensive Jokes in India" On the shop floor of an Indian automobile plant, a multi-ethnic workforce exchanges potentially offensive ethnic…

Redox biology, oxidative stress and hypertension

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2015
CMD Autumn Seminar Series

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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