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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…

Celebrating Research Success in FLS Seminar - “Stitching up holes in epithelial sheets.”

15:00 - 16:00 8 April 2016
The next seminar in the ‘Celebrating Research Success’ series will be given by Dr Tom Millard who is a member of the Developement Research Theme. The seminar is scheduled to take place…

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 8 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…

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 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…

Words, words, words! The power of print demonstration

11:30 - 12:00 8 April 2016
On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, join us as we demonstrate our historic printing press. Discover the impact the printing press had on our society and how printed text…

Words, words, words! The power of print demonstration

14:30 - 15:00 8 April 2016
On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, join us as we demonstrate our historic printing press. Discover the impact the printing press had on our society and how printed text…

‘Understanding Pain – bottom-up versus top down’ – Ben Seymour

15:00 - 17:00 8 April 2016
Ben Seymour is an outstanding neurologist and neuroscientist who has pioneered the application of computational modelling to the functional brain imaging of pain perception. His interests…

Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:15 - 10:30 9 April 2016
See, Make and Do at the Museum Join us for our early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their families and carers, and siblings.…

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

13:00 - 14:00 9 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…

Easter Holidays: Engineering the Square Kilometre Array

11:00 11 - 16:00 15 April 2016
Come and find out about a brand new telescope which is being designed by scientists and engineers at Jodrell Bank and around the world. You will have the chance to try experiments to…

Open Science communication and the academic super user

13:00 - 14:00 11 April 2016
Open science is about the sharing of research knowledge and transparency in the research process. Along with major funding councils’ open access policy and data policy, open science…

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