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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Introductory tour

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

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

13:00 - 14:00 30 March 2016
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…

Plant immune receptors: dissection, diversity and deployment

16:00 - 17:00 30 March 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

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…

Role of highly oligomeric organising centres in the regulation of inflammatory signalling

12:00 - 13:00 31 March 2016
MIG Seminar Series

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 1 April 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

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

13:00 - 14:00 2 April 2016
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…

Spring Studio - Family Easter activities at the Whitworth (Monday to Saturday during the Easter school holidays)

11:00 2 - 15:00 16 April 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…

Northern Chamber Orchestra concert for Parkinson’s

15:00 - 17:00 3 April 2016
Conductor Stephen Barlow and the Northern Chamber Orchestra explore pieces related to neurodegenerative disease. John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons reflects his father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s…

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 holidays: Planets Science Show

11:00 4 - 16:00 8 April 2016
Come along to our science show and find out about the planets in our solar system. Find out why Venus is such a horrible place, what happens when you visit the cold outer planets and…

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