Manchester Museum

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…

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…

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

Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:15 - 10:30 8 July 2017
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 take place before the…

Tech Takeover

17:00 - 20:00 12 July 2017
Visit the museum after hours and see the collections in a relaxed evening atmosphere. Join us in the Study for an evening of technology. Be involved in interactive workshops, including…

Big Saturday: Stories Found Under the Ground

11:00 - 16:00 15 July 2017
Explore amazing objects from the past and the hidden stories they can reveal. Children can roll up their sleeves and fine-tune their archaeological skills. Hands on activities, arts…

My Manchester Museum

14:30 - 16:30 15 July 2017
Come and see the peacock and the crane from Manchester Museum and join us for an afternoon of family activities.

Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 17 July 2017
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 11:15 18 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 18 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…

Musical Baby Explorers

13:00 - 13:45 18 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.…

Finds Liaison

10:00 - 16:00 21 July 2017
Vanessa Oakden, the Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be in The Study. Come and see her if you have you need to record your find. This includes all archaeological…

Story Explorers - Summer Holiday Activities

11:00 24 July - 16:00 1 September 2017
With over 4 million objects from all over the world, there are stories all around us at Manchester Museum. Delve into the tantalizing tales tent filled with books, perform stories…

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