Manchester Museum

Baby Explorers

10:30 15 March 2016
Baby Explorers interactive story and sensory play session Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported by a range…

Baby Explorers

11:30 - 12:15 15 March 2016
Baby Explorers interactive story and sensory play session Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported by a range…

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…

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 15 March 2016
Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported by a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. Join…

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.…

Big Saturday – The Body Experience

11:00 - 16:00 19 March 2016
"(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 the family. We all learned…

Jurassic World, 2015, 12

14:00 20 March 2016
Ages 12 + and accompanying adults Free, Book www.gmoff.eventbrite.com Part of the Greater Manchester On Film Festival (GMOFF)

Screening of Jurassic Park, 1993, PG

11:00 20 March 2016
Ages 9 + and accompanying adults Free, Book Part of the Greater Manchester On Film Festival (GMOFF)

Magic Carpet – Frogs

10:30 - 12:30 23 March 2016
Friday 27 May 2016 Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised…

Magic Carpet –The Porridge Pot

10:30 - 11:30 25 March 2016
Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised to enable our youngest…

Magic Carpet –The Porridge Pot - 11.30-12.30

11:30 - 12:00 25 March 2016
Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised to enable our youngest…

Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Surgery

10:00 - 16:00 25 March 2016
Finds surgery for recording and identification of objects found by members of the public from prehistory to 1700s, including metalwork, flint and pottery.

The Urban Naturalist

14:00 - 16:00 27 March 2016
Friendly, practical workshops run by leading naturalists. From wild food-foraging and composting to bird song and insect identification, explore biodiversity on our doorstep. This…

Baby Explorer

01:00 - 01:45 29 March 2016
Baby Explorers is an interactive story and sensory play session. Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported…

Common Objects: Sonorous Matter

19:00 - 22:00 31 March 2016
Book, mcrmuseum.eventbrite.com or ring 0161 275 2648 free, adults When Oskar Fischinger met John Cage he talked about a spirit that lives inside each of the world’s objects, and said…

Siberian Stories

18:00 - 19:00 31 March 2016
Book, mcrmuseum.eventbrite.com or ring 0161 275 2648 free, adults An evening presentation by Manchester Museum's Researcher in Residence. Inspired by the Museum's 2014-2015 Siberia…

Easter Holiday Activities - Animal Hats

11:00 - 16:00 4 April 2016
Explore, discover and create at Manchester Museum this Easter. Find your favourite animal in the Museum and create an animal hat of your own to take away. Manchester Museum has many…

Easter Holiday Activities

11:00 5 - 16:00 15 April 2016
Explore, discover and create at Manchester Museum this Easter. Find your favourite animal in the Museum and create an animal hat of your own to take away. Manchester Museum has many…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 5 April 2016
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion.

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 12:15 12 April 2016
Sessions run 10.30 -11.15 and 11.30-12.15 Interactive story and sensory play sessions Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and…

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 12 April 2016
Tuesday 12 April 2016 1:00 PM - 1.45 Join us for live music and songs inspired by our collections, supported by a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. A space…

Rock Drop: Geology Identification Sessions

14:00 - 16:00 14 April 2016
Our Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, will be available once a month to answer your questions and identify your rocks and fossils.

Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Surgery

10:00 - 16:00 20 April 2016
Finds surgery for recording and identification of objects found by members of the public from prehistory to 1700s, including metalwork, flint and pottery

The Urban Naturalist

14:00 - 16:00 24 April 2016
Friendly, practical workshops run by leading naturalists. From wild food-foraging and composting to bird song and insect identification, explore biodiversity on our doorstep. This…

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