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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…

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…

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…

Easter holidays: Meet the Expert

13:00 4 - 14:00 15 April 2016
A chance to meet one of our resident scientific and engineering experts, find out about their work and quiz them about what they do and their knowledge of Jodrell Bank. If you have…

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…

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…

Green Impact Workshop & Drop-In

13:00 - 15:00 6 April 2016
Whether you’ve been participating in Green Impact for several years, or have just formed a team, everyone is welcome to attend this event taking place on Wednesday, 6th April in room…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 6 April 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

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…

Redox Regulation of Chondrocyte Integrin Signaling and Osteoarthritis

13:00 - 14:00 6 April 2016
Richard is Director of Basic and Translational Research in the Thurston Arthritis Research Center at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Abstract : Osteoarthritis results from degradation…

Research in Imagery and Observation (RIO) Meeting Keynote Talk

16:00 - 17:00 6 April 2016
We are hosting the 10th Anniversary Research in Imagery and Observation (RIO) Meeting in the Zochonis Building 6th-7th April. We would like to invite anyone interested to attend the…

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…

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 6 April 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: Exploring diet and obesity in children using geodemographic classifications

14:00 - 15:00 6 April 2016
The UK Data Service is holding a webinar on diet and obesity in children as part of a series showcasing research using new and novel forms of data. This is a collaborative webinar…

'Living the Weather: a study in the socio-atmospherics of everyday life' - BSA conference stream plenary

09:30 - 10:30 7 April 2016
Professor Jennifer Mason is giving the plenary session of the Families and Relationships stream at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, held at Aston University, 6-8 April 2016.

Northern Epigenomics Club Meeting

12:00 - 16:00 7 April 2016
We are delighted to announce the fourth meeting of the Northern Epigenomics Club at the University of Manchester. The meeting will be held on Thursday 7th April from 12-4pm in Lecture…

Toddler tales

10:30 - 11:30 7 April 2016
Find a cosy corner, pull up a cushion and listen to fun stories. Join in playtime, creating a storyworld of your own.

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