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Art Picnic - Family Easter activities at the Whitworth

11:00 - 14:00 25 March 2016
Drop in for two very special Easter Art Picnics at the Whitworth this Easter weekend. Eat, play and create together with your family in our Grand Hall. Have a go at making your own…

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…

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 25 March 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. Just turn up!

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…

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…

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.

Spring Studio

11:00 25 March 2016
Discover, play and make together with your family this Easter holiday. As winter comes to a close and greenery once again takes hold, take the lead from artist Nico Vascellari to create…

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.…

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…

Greater Manchester on Film Festival – Fantastic Mr Fox (PG)

11:00 - 12:00 26 March 2016
Screening 11am, with arts workshops 12.30pm and 1.30pm Free, booking required. Eventbrite link - www.gmoff.eventbrite.com Enjoy a family friendly screening of Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes…

Greater Manchester on Film Festival: Fantastic Mr Fox (2009, PG) - booking required

11:00 - 16:00 26 March 2016
Enjoy a free, family-friendly screening of Fantastic Mr Fox (PG), Wes Anderson’s eccentric stop-motion animation, showing in our historic Grand Hall. This event is free, booking required.…

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

13:00 - 14:00 26 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…

Artist Sundays - Family Easter activities at the Whitworth (every Sunday in the school holidays)

11:00 27 March - 16:00 17 April 2016
Join us for special Easter holiday Artist Sundays as we re-launch our Sunday sessions for families. Extraordinary artists invent offbeat and imaginative ways for you and your family…

Big Artist Sunday

11:00 - 16:00 27 March 2016
Free, drop-in, families (all ages) Join us for a special Big Artist Sunday as we re-launch our Sunday sessions for families. Extraordinary artists invent offbeat and imaginative ways…

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…

Art Picnic - Family Easter activities at the Whitworth

11:00 - 14:00 28 March 2016
Drop in for two very special Easter Art Picnics at the Whitworth. Eat, play and create together with your family in our Grand Hall. Have a go at making your own colourful patchwork…

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…

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