Manchester Museum

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.

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…

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.…

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…

The Urban Naturalist

Lightning Talks in The Study

12:00 - 17:00 25 April 2016
Find out more about a range of fascinating topics with our lightning talks Monday 25: 12noon Orang-utan Hairy tree porcupine Aye-Aye Volcanic ash Polar bear 2pm Gharial (Gavialis…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 12:15 26 April 2016
Interactive story and sensory play sessions Sessions: 10.30 -11.15 and 11.30-12.15 Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real…

Crafty Climate

11:00 - 13:00 26 April 2016
Drop by to Make section in The Study for a crafty morning with climate inspired crafts. Bring your own make or have a go at our climate crafts. Drop in, free, adults.

Lightning Talks in The Study

12:00 - 16:00 26 April 2016
Find out more about a range of fascinating topics with our lightning talks Tuesday 25 April 12noon Harpy eagle Archaeopteryx Phantasmal frog Reindeer moss Garden tiger + wall brown…

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 - 13:45 26 April 2016
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 to play, share and discover together.…

The Urban Naturalist

14:00 - 16:00 26 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. Identification…

Lightning Talks in The Study

12:00 - 20:00 27 April 2016
Find out more about a range of fascinating topics with our lightning talks Wednesday 27 April 12noon Another bird? dodo Mammoth Starfish trilobites 3pm Willow bark seed banks woolly…

Lightning Talks in The Study

12:00 - 16:00 28 April 2016
Find out more about a range of fascinating topics with our lightning talks Thursday 28 April 12noon Neanderthals Strawberry poison dart frog Green turtle Hawaiian goose Poison dart…

Lightning Talks in The Study

12:00 - 16:00 29 April 2016
Find out more about a range of fascinating topics with our lightning talks Friday 29 April 12noon Grey wolf Scarab beetle Horseshoe crab Pangolin red panda 3pm lichen carcharodon…

Magic Carpet – Nature Discovery

10:30 - 12:30 29 April 2016
Sessions run 10.30-11.30 and 11.30-12.30 Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories…

Neanderthals Big Saturday

11:00 - 16:00 30 April 2016
Discover more about Neanderthals, who they were and how they lived, and how research at the University of Manchester is adding to what we know. See objects from the Manchester museum…

After Hours: SEE-SAW presents an interactive, live drawing event at Manchester Museum

18:30 - 22:00 8 May 2016
Sound and image come together in these artist-led drawing sessions within the stunning setting of the Living Worlds gallery. Join in and see your work projected in the space alongside…

Climate Control

11 May - 18 September 2016
We hear about climate change on the news and in the newspapers. Climate change is happening all around us, but this isn’t the time to ignore it, it’s the time to get really, really,…

After Hours: Climate Control

18:00 - 21:00 12 May 2016
Sound and image come together in these artist-led drawing sessions within the stunning setting of the living worlds gallery. join in and see your work projected in the space alongside…

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