All events

Bodies of Colour: Breaking With Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection

4 May 2018 - 28 April 2019
This latest exhibition uses the Whitworth’s extensive and significant wallpaper collection to focus on how Imperial attitudes to people are reflected in wallpaper. The wallpapers in…

British Science Week: Telescope Walking Tour

9 - 15 March 2019
Telescope Walking Tour Saturday 9th March – Friday 15th March 11:45AM (weekend only) & 3:15PM (everyday) Join one of Jodrell Bank’s popular Telescope Walking Tour as our friendly…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

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

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer

22 February - 2 June 2019
An exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together with their choice of artworks from The Whitworth collections. The portraits have been created in…

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

23 June 2018 - 3 November 2019
A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka’bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction…

Introduction to Latent Class Analysis

14 - 15 March 2019
Latent Class Analysis (LCA) is a branch of the more General Latent Variable Modelling approach. It is typically used to classify subjects (such as individuals or countries) in groups…

MUMS lunchtime Concerts: World Music

13:10 - 14:00 15 March 2019
Come and enjoy a lunchtime concert performed by the Manchester University Music Society. These concerts are free, no need to book just turn up. This world music showcase features a…

Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

7 July 2018 - 4 August 2019
Francesco José de Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) and William Hogarth (1647-1764) were the most remarkable artists of their times. Both were famous painters, but their most compelling works…

Statistics Careers Event

13:30 6 March - 16:00 6 May 2019
This year's annual Statistics Careers Event (kindly sponsored by the RSS Manchester Local Group) will take place on Wednesday, 6th March 2019, 1.30-4.00 pm in the Alan Turing Building,…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
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. Daily tours are designed for…

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

13:00 - 14:00 16 March 2019
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…

The Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO) and Manchester University String Orchestra (MUSO)

19:30 - 21:00 16 March 2019
MUWO and MUSO are back! Get your wands at the ready with John Williams. Be part of the Magic of Harry Potter and brace yourselves for a starlit journey through Orion with Julie Giroux.…

“QUEER LEONARDO: an afternoon of performance, spoken word and music”

15:00 - 17:00 16 March 2019
“QUEER LEONARDO: an afternoon of performance, spoken word and music” Manchester Art Gallery, 15.00-17.00 + FLoK, 18.00-21.00, 16 March 2019 It is widely accepted that Leonardo da…

Aperture

10:30 - 11:30 17 March 2019
This event is now SOLD OUT. Calling all photographers! This is a fantastic opportunity to capture the beauty of our Historic Reading Room, before the Library opens to the general public.…

Facing Out: Film screening of WONDER

14:00 - 16:00 17 March 2019
Part of a programme of events to coincide with Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer, an exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together…

Appraising the evidence from RCTs

10:00 - 13:00 18 March 2019
Participants will gain an understanding of the design of a randomised controlled trial and the main sources of bias that affect randomised controlled trials, and be able to interpret…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 18 March 2019

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 18 March 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Katie Druce and Belay Birlie Yimer– “Waking…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Tom Grisaffi – University College London

16:00 - 18:00 18 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th March 2019 Dr Tom Grisaffi – University College London To Lead by Obeying: How Bolivia’s Coca Growers Reinvented Democracy At the turn…

Explorer Tour

14:00 - 15:00 19 March 2019
This event is now SOLD OUT. Ever wondered where some of the Library doors and staircases lead to? Then this is the tour for you. Join us as we take a look behind the scenes at The…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series 2019

15:30 - 17:00 19 March 2019
Dr Karin Shmueli, Associate Professor at University College London will give a talk entitled MRI Susceptibility Mapping: What, Why and How? Applications mainly in the Brain

Vania Stavrakeva (LBS)

16:15 - 17:45 19 March 2019
Macro seminar

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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