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Barbara Brown

17 March 2017 - 15 March 2018
Barbara Brown was the golden girl of Heal Fabrics in the 1960s and early 1970s. Talent-spotted as a student, her designs for furnishing fabrics are some of the most striking and unusual…

Beyond Borders

20 May 2017 - 3 June 2018
Beyond Borders, explores South Asian textiles bringing together four artists working on issues around post-colonial identity, ruptured spaces, authenticity, displacement and belonging.…

Cornelia Parker: Verso

16 June - 5 November 2017
Cornelia Parker: Verso 16 June - 5 November 2017 Cornelia Parker has always been attracted to the backs and undersides of things. While the front presents a conscious and recognisable…

Cozens and Cozens

16 June 2017 - 24 June 2018
Father and son, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, were influential watercolour painters of the 18th century. Alexander was a drawing master who dedicated his career to teaching young…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 22 April - 17:00 31 December 2017
Are you hungry to get creative with your family? Pick up an Art Hamper, free and available any time during gallery opening hours. Our Art Hampers are filled with materials for you…

Home Is…

12:00 19 - 12:00 23 June 2017
What does it mean to be “home”? An exhibition with an interactive and homely layout that discusses the ideas of what it means to be at home and to lose such security, as well as moving…

John Akomfrah

24 March - 23 July 2017
John Akomfrah's acclaimed video installation Vertigo Sea. Vertigo Sea, a three-screen film, first seen at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures…

Lucienne Day

14 April - 16 July 2017
We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary year of one of Britain’s most influential 20th century designers. Best-known for her textiles, Lucienne Day (1917 – 2010) is recognised…

Refugee Cultural Festival

16:00 - 20:30 23 June 2017
Our Refugee Week programme culminates with the annual Manchester Refugee Week celebration event organised in conjunction with Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN), a celebration…

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…

Sooni Taraporevala: Home in the City, Bombay 1976-Mumbai 2016

4 March 2017 - 1 January 2018
The first UK solo exhibition of photographer Sooni Taraporevala. Photographer, screenwriter, filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala will present a series of black and white photographs depicting…

Taking Interdependency Seriously: Brexit and the Rising Powers

14:00 - 15:30 23 June 2017
Taking Interdependency Seriously: Brexit and the Rising Powers with Professor Alan Winters Post-Brexit Britain will be an outward looking champion of the global system, we are told.…

The Tabley House Collection

13:00 1 April - 13:00 29 October 2017
As a university of Manchester country house collection, The Tabley House Collection showcases a permanent exhibition of early British modern masters alongside interchanging displays…

Undergraduate Open Day

23 June 2017
Open days give you the chance to find out more about the challenges, opportunities and rewards of academic and social life at The University of Manchester – and explore our bustling…

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.

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 24 June 2017
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

Raqib Shaw

24 June - 1 November 2017
Contemporary artist Raqib Shaw will have a solo exhibition at the Whitworth that will examine real and imagined spaces between the East and West. Co-curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt,…

Undergraduate Open Day

24 June 2017
Open days give you the chance to find out more about the challenges, opportunities and rewards of academic and social life at The University of Manchester – and explore our bustling…

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…

Conference: ISLAMIC PSYCHOANALYSIS / PSYCHOANALYTIC ISLAM

26 - 27 June 2017
ISLAMIC PSYCHOANALYSIS / PSYCHOANALYTIC ISLAM University of Manchester, 26-27 June 2017 This international conference organised by the College of Psychoanalysts – UK with the support…

Discover Chemistry - Fully Booked

26 June 2017
-This event is fully booked- This day provides hands-on experience of Chemistry courses at The University of Manchester. It gives you the chance to see (and use) for yourselves the…

Pharmacy Education Conference 2017

09:30 - 16:30 26 June 2017
We would like to welcome all those who have an interest in pharmacy undergraduate education to the fourth Pharmacy Education Conference on 26th June 2017 in Manchester. This conference…

Year 12 Modern Foreign Languages Day - LEAF (Language Education Alevel and Further)

09:00 - 15:00 26 June 2017
This free event gives Y12 pupils an opportunity to sample life as a language student at the University of Manchester. Students will undertake sessions in language and cultural topics…

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