Manchester Museum

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 6 June 2017
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop in, free, adult

10:30 - 11:15 6 June 2017
Our Story teller is on holiday so we will be having musical Baby explorers all day! Join us for live music and songs inspired by our collections, supported by a range of playful sensory…

Musical Baby Explorers

11:30 - 12:15 6 June 2017
Our Story teller is on holiday so we will be having musical Baby explorers all day! Join us for live music and songs inspired by our collections, supported by a range of playful sensory…

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 - 13:45 6 June 2017
Our Story teller is on holiday so we will be having musical Baby explorers all day! Join us for live music and songs inspired by our collections, supported by a range of playful sensory…

Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:15 - 10:30 10 June 2017
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…

Manchester University Community Festival

11:00 - 15:00 17 June 2017
Come and experience our free Community Festival packed with fun family-friendly interactive activities. We are throwing open our doors for our local neighbours to discover the variety…

Migration and the Modern City: Four Short Films

14:00 - 16:00 19 June 2017
Michael Wood, the University of Manchester's Professor of Public History, will introduce the first public screening of four short documentary films made by MA students from the University's…

Refugee Week at Manchester Museum: All for One

10:00 19 - 17:00 25 June 2017
During Refugee Week we will be displaying work created by young refugees working with GMIAU: http://gmiau.org/ in our study space. Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) is…

Refugee Week at Manchester Museum:Rethink Rebuild Society & Stephanie Gervais, Memories of Syria films

10:00 19 - 17:00 25 June 2017
Memories of Syria is a new project in the works by Rethink Rebuild Society in collaboration with the artist Stephanie Gervais. In this series of videos, Syrian refugees in Manchester…

Baby Explorer interactive story and sensory play sessions

10:30 - 11:15 20 June 2017
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 20 June 2017
Baby Explorers is an interactive story and sensory play session. Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported…

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 - 13:45 20 June 2017
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.…

Refugee Week at Manchester Museum: 60 Million Trebles

12:00 - 14:00 21 June 2017
On 21 of June, Manchester Museum staff will be making blankets for the 60 Million Trebles and inviting the public to join them. http://janiceissittlifestyle.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/60-million-trebles.html…

Great Pokemon Inspired Quest

11:00 - 15:00 24 June 2017
Grab your rucksack and get ready to explore. Using our quest guide, families can search together to catch Manchester Museum’s Pokemon using the Pokemon GO app; and search our display cases for their real-life cousins.

Urban Naturalist

14:00 - 15:30 24 June 2017
Friendly, practical, skill building workshops ran by leading naturalists. From wild food-foraging for natural cocktails to learning how to recognise the sounds of the animals that visit…

Manchester Victorian Pottery

14:00 - 16:00 25 June 2017
Visitors to Manchester Museum will have another opportunity to stick together broken pottery from excavations in Manchester. It is a little-known fact that when archaeologists were…

Magic Carpet: Dinosaurs

11:30 - 12:30 30 June 2017
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…

Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 3 July 2017
Collection Bites are half an hour talks about our collection with a bit of a contemporary twist. You can read up on the chosen subject beforehand on the Visitor Team blog, Stories…

Magic Carpet - Ancient Egypt

10:30 - 11:30 3 July 2017
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…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 11:15 4 July 2017
Baby Explorers is an interactive story and sensory play session. Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported…

Baby Explorers

11:30 - 12:15 4 July 2017
Baby Explorers is an interactive story and sensory play session. Our specially devised stories, inspired by our collections, include music, songs, props and real objects, supported…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 4 July 2017
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop in, free, adult

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 - 13:45 4 July 2017
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.…

Drink, Draw, Dinosaur

14:30 - 16:30 5 July 2017
Each month a creative will be taking residence for a day in our Study. Taking inspiration from our collection they will be making, drawing and creating. Take a look at what they make…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 7 July 2017
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop in, free, adult

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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