Manchester Museum

Baby Explorers Drop in sensory play session

11:00 - 14:30 25 October 2016
Join us for a drop in Baby Explorer sensory play session over half term. Discover real objects, supported by a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. A space to play,…

Oct Half Term Activities: Animal Prints

11:00 24 - 16:00 28 October 2016
Be inspired by rare animals and plants and create an animal print of your own to take away. Visit our new exhibition ‘Extinction or Survival?’ on floor G. From the Dodo to the Giant…

Oct Half Term Baby Explorers

11:00 - 14:30 25 October 2016
Baby Explorers is an interactive sensory play session, supported with a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. Sessions take place in our Nature Discovery gallery,…

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System

11:00 - 16:00 25 October 2016
Hold and study real pieces of the Moon, collected by the Apollo astronauts, as well as pieces of Mars and 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites. Plus, take part in a meteorite impacting experiment,…

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.…

Juice from Oranges, Rocks from Space

11:30 - 12:30 26 October 2016
A new poetry performance from Helen Clare, about exhibits from around the Museum; where they came from and the journey they’ve made. There will be happy poems, sad poems, gory poems…

Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica

11:00 - 14:00 26 October 2016
Create your own low-tech animations inspired by Ocular Bionica, artist Lucy Burscough’s stop-frame animated film about hybrid human-digital vision. You can also chat to Lucy about…

Create Paper Moths

27 October 2016
Get crafty with the Creative Crew from Stanley Grove and find out more about their Big Draw project, create paper moths to share, keep or treasure. Drop in, free, all ages

Manchester Museum: Late for Manchester Science Festival

18:00 - 21:00 27 October 2016
Enjoy a late-night view of the museum with the launch of vision technology-inspired project Ocular Bionica and an after-hours look at the Animal Kingdoms exhibition. You can also take…

Magic Carpet

10:30 - 11:30 28 October 2016
Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised to enable our youngest…

Magic Carpet

11:30 - 12:30 28 October 2016
Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised to enable our youngest…

Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica

11:00 - 14:00 28 October 2016
Create your own low-tech animations inspired by Ocular Bionica, artist Lucy Burscough’s stop-frame animated film about hybrid human-digital vision. You can also chat to Lucy about…

Big Saturday: Science Spectacular

10:00 - 16:00 29 October 2016
A fun-filled family day of science challenges, live experiments, and interactive demonstrations. Help us draw some sketchy science, crack our top secret computer codes, play with moon…

Ocular:Bionica

10:00 29 - 17:00 30 October 2016
This painted stop-frame animation film tells the story of Ray, a patient who has lost his central vision to age-related macular degeneration. He becomes the first person with condition…

Ocular:Bionica

10:00 - 17:00 30 October 2016
This painted stop-frame animation film tells the story of Ray, a patient who has lost his central vision to age-related macular degeneration. He becomes the first person with condition…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 1 November 2016
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop in, free, adult

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 1 November 2016
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop in, free, adult

Baby Explorer interactive story and sensory play sessions

10:30 - 11:15 8 November 2016
Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported by a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. Sessions…

Baby Explorer interactive story and sensory play sessions

11:30 - 12:15 8 November 2016
Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported by a range of playful sensory resources for babies to explore. Sessions…

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 - 13:45 8 November 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 Please…

Sketching the everyday: Belonging and not belonging

14:30 - 16:00 8 November 2016
Look at everyday life from a different perspective. Join us to find out how sociologists from The University of Manchester do research on our everyday lives and try out one of our more…

Sketching the everyday: Belonging and not belonging

Sketching the everyday: Drop-in session

12:15 - 14:15 8 November 2016
Look at everyday life from a different perspective. Join us to find out how sociologists from The University of Manchester do research on our everyday lives and try out one of our more…

Into the Field. The Added Value of Field Research in Legal Studies

15:00 - 16:30 9 November 2016
Stop. Embrace reality. Why let other people form your opinion about life, people, and places? Experience. Absorb. Analyse. Share. Join law researchers as they connecting the awe-inspiring…

Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:00 - 10:30 12 November 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. Activities…

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