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Age Friendly: Handmade

14:00 12 January - 16:00 13 July 2018
Sociable craft workshops, produced by and for older people in partnership with Age Friendly Manchester Fridays (Except during school holidays), 2pm - 4pm. Booking essential. Free …

Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:15 - 10:30 13 January 2018
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…

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.…

Cecily Brown: Shipwreck drawings

17 November 2017 - 15 April 2018
This is an exhibition of a extraordinary series of drawings by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships and their passengers. Brown’s practice of painterly interrogation of an existing image,…

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 Tours at the Whitworth

14:00 20 October 2017 - 15:00 14 February 2018
Daily tours at 2pm, free Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park.…

English Corner

10:30 6 October 2017 - 12:00 31 May 2019
Fourth Friday of each month 10.30am–12pm Monthly conversation classes for people who are learning to speak English. Free, no need to book

John Stezaker

1 December 2017 - 24 June 2018
Using vintage photographs, old film stills, postcards and book illustrations, John Stezaker makes collages that subvert their original imagery, creating unique and compelling works…

Maeve Brennan: The Drift

30 September 2017 - 1 February 2018
Maeve Brennan: The Drift 30 September 2017 – February 2018 The Drift, is a major new film commission by contemporary artist Maeve Brennan in her first institutional solo exhibition.…

Manchester Museum Tour in Spanish

11:00 - 12:00 13 January 2018
From 2018 we are proud to offer free foreign language tours aimed at native speakers and students of any level of Spanish and Mandarin Chinese . The tours will encompass all of our…

Memories of Partition

15 August 2017 - 31 January 2018
Find out about the experiences and legacies of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 through the memories of members of Manchester’s South Asian communities. The partition of…

Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language

30 September 2017 - 25 February 2018
Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language 30 September 2017 – 25 February 2018 The first major UK exhibition by Raqs Media Collective at the Whitworth and throughout Whitworth Park…

Reena Saini Kallat

10:00 30 September 2017 - 17:00 25 February 2018
Acclaimed artist Reena Saini Kallat has delved into Manchester Museum’s natural science and human culture collections for her solo exhibition. Her newly-commissioned sculpture Chorus…

South Asian Modernists 1953-63

30 September 2017 - 15 April 2018
South Asian Modernists 1953-63 30 September – 15 April 2018 South Asian Modernists will explore the works of Pakistani and Indian artists who worked with Victor Musgrave between 1953-63.…

Steve McQueen: Ashes

22 September 2017 - 12 March 2018
Steve McQueen: Ashes 22 September 2017 – March 2019 Ashes (2002-2015), a double video projection, tells the story of a young Caribbean man known by this name. On one screen we see…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 13 January 2018
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 15 January 2018
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…

Stock Orchard Street: Rationale, Realisation, Reception

17:00 - 18:00 15 January 2018
Public Lecture (Key Note) by Sarah Wigglesworth This lecture is organised as part of the Activism at Home Symposium 15-16 January 2018: the programme can be found here: https://aestheticsofresistance…

Domesticity and the Architect's Home

13:30 - 14:30 16 January 2018
Public lecture (key note) by Hilde Heynen, Leuven University This lecture is organised as part of the Activism at Home Symposium 15-16 January 2018: the programme can be found here:…

Personhood and Selfhood: Social Personhood

16 January 2018
The first in a Royal Institute of Philosophy conference series on Personhood and Selfhood at the University of Manchester. Additionally sponsored by the AHRC North West Doctoral Training…

Advanced Astrophotography

19:30 - 22:00 17 January 2018
New for 2018, this advanced course offers Astrophotographers the chance to extend their knowledge and help them achieve breath-taking night sky photography. The session follows on…

Alfredo Brillembourg (U-TT/ETHZ): Urban Think Tank

18:00 - 20:00 17 January 2018
This event is made possible due to the kindness of The Bradshaw Gass Trust. Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design…

Impact, Identification and management of hearing loss in people with dementia

13:00 - 16:00 17 January 2018
•Seminar 2pm - 4 pm, free networking lunch from 1pm •Martin Harris Centre: G16 registration and lunch and John Casken Theatre for seminar presentations. Speakers: Dr Piers Dawes…

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

13:00 - 14:00 17 January 2018
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…

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