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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 …

Alison Wilding

16 February - 12 August 2018
Turner Prize nominee and Royal Academician Alison Wilding presents works spanning the past 20 years of her career. This new show at the Whitworth will comprise of three major sculptures,…

Apna: Ours Yours Everybody’s

3 February - 13 May 2018
Apna is a word used in many languages across South Asia meaning ‘ours, yours or everybody’s’. This reflects how the Whitworth shares the collection that is housed here. In the Collections…

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.…

Borderland - part of LGBT History Month

19:30 - 21:00 23 February 2018
Written by James Harker Directed by Danielle McIlven When a racist white boxer instinctively defends a young Asian woman in an after-school fight, neither is prepared for the chaos…

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…

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

Feb Half Term Activities

11:00 19 - 16:00 23 February 2018
Join us this half term and be inspired by the museum's collections through a variety of creative hands on activities.

Half Term: Live Science Shows

19 - 23 February 2018
Have you ever wondered what dark matter is? Is dark energy a real thing? Discover how the visible can appear invisible and why galaxies should fly apart, in our brand new live science…

Half Term: Meet the Expert

19 - 23 February 2018
Here’s your chance to meet one of Jodrell Bank's resident science and astronomy experts. You’ll get to find out about their work and have the chance to ask the questions you’ve always…

Half Term: Telescope Walking Tours

19 - 23 February 2018
Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre's popular Telescope Walking Tours will be running on weekdays during half term and you can join one of our friendly explainers for a walk around the base…

Half Term: Under 5s Journey through the Solar System

19 - 23 February 2018
Do you want to explore space? Then head over the Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre and meet us at our Clockwork Orrery for a journey through the Solar System! On the way we will be stopping…

In the Land

27 January - 4 November 2018
Rethinking the form, texture and space of the natural landscape. This exhibition looks back at a period of intense experimentation in British painting and sculpture where artists,…

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…

Magic Carpet The Porridge Pot

10:30 - 11:30 23 February 2018
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…

Radical Print - Printing Press Demonstration

11:15 - 11:45 23 February 2018
The John Rylands Library: Twitter spats and cheeky tweets! At The John Rylands Library, watch and learn about how the printing press became an instrument of defiance and rebellion…

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…

Manchester University Music Society Opera Evening - 'War and Conflict'

19:30 - 21:00 24 February 2018
This is sure to be a gripping evening of opera, on the theme of war and conflict. Recent University alumni James Keirle’s contemporary opera Not On The List will be performed, as…

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

13:00 - 14:00 24 February 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…

Fairtrade Fortnight 2018

26 February - 12 March 2018
Come on in to Fairtrade Fortnight 2018! It’s Fairtrade Fortnight from 26th February to 12th March so it’s time to step up and stand by the farmers and workers who grow our food. As…

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