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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 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…

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…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Social connections and health in older adults: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

16:00 - 17:30 12 April 2016
Abstract: Social connections play an important role in health and well-being across the life course. As individuals age, they experience a number of changes to their social networks…

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: 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…

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…

Explorer tour

14:00 - 15:00 12 April 2016
Ever wondered where some of the Library doors and staircases lead to? Then this is the tour for you.

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…

Humour and the History of Science

16:00 - 17:00 12 April 2016
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminar Series Feb-May 2016. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

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…

miRNA signature and novel drug targets in pulmonary hypertension

12:00 - 13:00 12 April 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Alison Gurney

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…

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…

Saving Lives and Staying Alive: Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management

17:30 - 19:00 12 April 2016
We are delighted to launch the latest book from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Centre de Réflexion sur l'Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires (CRASH), "Saving Lives and Staying Alive.…

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 geographies of man: mapping tribal 'landscapes' in nineteenth century India - Cam Sharp Jones (University of Manchester)

13:00 - 14:00 12 April 2016
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

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: Linking multimedia city data

14:00 - 15:00 12 April 2016
The UK Data Service is holding a webinar on social aspects on the urban environment as part of a series showcasing research using new and novel forms of data. This is a collaborative…

Who put the phase delay in? And why size matters. Looking at connectivity during the development and growth of the Drosophila motor network.

15:30 - 17:00 12 April 2016
We are trying to understand how those parts of the nervous system develop that generate behaviour. Working with the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, allows us to tap into a rich repertoire…

Words, words, words! The power of print demonstration

11:30 - 12:00 12 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 12 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…

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