All events

Are effectiveness-based models in danger of collapsing into complexity?

12:00 - 13:00 23 March 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminar series in Manchester Institute of Education

Astrophotograhy Night at Jodrell Bank

19:30 18 January 2016 - 21:00 18 January 2017
Come along to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre for an informal and fun evening of Astrophotography. You'll enjoy an Introduction to Astrophotography workshop (co-presented by Dr. Ant Holloway…

Ben Rivers

25 February - 22 May 2016
Ben Rivers presents his most ambitious work to date. The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is Ben Rivers’ most ambitious work to date. Migrating between documentary, fantasy and fable, and…

CLASS Network Conference 2016

12:45 - 16:00 23 March 2016
CLASS Network Conference 2016. Half-day networking meeting for all PSS. Places on the workshops are limited so don’t delay, register today via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/class-netwo…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 23 March 2016
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

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…

Infection by Listeria: new critical factors in the host-pathogen interaction

16:00 - 17:00 23 March 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 23 March 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. Just turn up!

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, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World

21 January - 21 August 2016
Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and…

New Arrivals

12 March - 20 November 2016
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that have recently been brought into the Whitworth’s collection. Highlighting a contemporary and diverse approach to drawing, they…

Nico Vascellari

25 February - 18 September 2016
Nico Vascellari’s major work, Bus de la Lum draws on the ancient powers of the forest. Light, video and sound explore the legend of a natural cavity located within the woodland of the…

Research Staff: Perspectives, Opportunities and Support at the University of Manchester

10:00 - 12:00 23 March 2016
This induction workshop is for new research staff from across the University and will signpost them to the wide ranging training and support available to enhance their career and professional…

Saving a Century

8 January - 24 March 2016
'Saving a Century', curated by leading architectural historian Gavin Stamp, uses archive photographs and material from over 50 years of the The Victorian Society's fight to save historic…

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 rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2016
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

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.…

They Said, We Said

11 January - 29 April 2016
?'They Said, We Said' is a collection of artwork produced by members of Pure Studio, an arts facility based in Stockport that helps its members, all of whom have a learning disability,…

Tibor Reich

29 January - 29 August 2016
A celebration of post-war design alongside an exhibition of Wallpaper from the Whitworth's collection

Wallpaper

29 January - 4 September 2016
Continuing the celebration of post-war design this show features highlights from the Whitworth’s collection of 1950s and 60s wallpapers. At the heart of the exhibition are papers from…

Webinar: Key data: Business data

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2016
This webinar is intended for anyone who wants to know more about the Office for National Statistics (ONS) business data available from the UK Data Service such as the Annual Survey…

Communication, collaboration and warfare in the filamentous fungus, Neurospora crassa

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2016
Manchester Fungal Infection Group Seminar - Host: Professor Nick Read

Cyclooxygenase-dependent tumour growth through evasion of immunity

12:00 - 13:00 24 March 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Research Claims and Interpretative Contexts

13:00 - 14:00 24 March 2016
This seminar with be presented by Professor Bryan Fanning, Simon and Hallsworth visiting professor at the University of Manchester in the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (Code). Andrew…

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.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

Search