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Ancient Textiles from the Andes

29 March - 15 September 2019
This is a rare opportunity to see ancient Andean textiles of this quality and size exhibited in the UK. Through a major loan from the collector Paul Hughes, alongside pieces from the…

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…

CMB&RM Seminar: David Beech "Piezo1 mechano-sensor in vascular physiology and disease"

13:00 - 14:00 29 March 2019
In mammals the sensing of blood flow is pivotal for embryonic maturation and adult physiology and disease. How this sensing occurs has been surprisingly difficult to decipher. We have…

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…

Family Stargazing Night

18:00 - 21:00 29 March 2019
Calling all budding young stargazers. You are invited to join us for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy and celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.…

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…

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…

Joy for Ever: How to use art to change the world and its price in the market

29 March - 9 June 2019
In 1857 John Ruskin (1819-1900) delivered one of his most important public lectures in response to the Great Art Treasures exhibition in Manchester, the largest art exhibition ever…

MUMS Lunchtime Concerts: Folk Concert

13:10 - 14:00 29 March 2019
MUMS are excited to present their first ever folk-themed concert, with music ranging from ‘trad’ to originals. Featuring a range of instruments and ensembles rarely heard in this concert…

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…

Prof Megan Jobson Inaugural Lecture and Wine Reception

15:00 - 17:00 29 March 2019
The Inaugural lecture of Megan Jobson, followed by a wine reception in C1, Great Hall, Sackville building, will be taking place on Friday 29 March 15:00. Seeking synergies in separation…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Petr Prause (cello)

19:30 29 March 2019
A new work by Richard Whalley based on analogies between music and Icelandic geology and landscapes is sandwiched by two more Schubert masterpieces: the driving single-movement Quartettsatz…

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…

Hallé Choral Academy Concert

15:00 - 17:00 30 March 2019
Join the Hallé Choral Academy as they perform a selection of works including Rutter’s ‘Feel the Spirit’, led by conductors Joseph Judge and Michelle Robinson. The concert will also…

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

13:00 - 14:00 30 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 University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 30 March 2019
The University of Manchester Chorus returns this spring with Carl Orff’s renowned work, Carmina Burana, accompanied by the University of Manchester’s Symphony Orchestra. We also celebrate…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Ivan Rajkovic – (Max Planck)

16:00 - 18:00 1 April 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 1st April 2019 Dr Ivan Rajkovic – (Max Planck) “Balkanizing Sahlins: National Humiliation and Stranger Capitalism in a Semi-Periphery” Focusing…

Colloquium: Machine learning and big scientific data: What can AI do for the facilities?

15:00 - 17:00 2 April 2019
Professor Tony Hey, the Chief Data Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council at Harwell, presented at the second University of Manchester at Harwell colloquium. There…

The print is mightier than the sword: print demo

11:15 - 11:30 2 April 2019
Watch our beautiful printing press in action, recreating the words penned by superstar poet Shelley in response to the tragic events of Peterloo. No need to book, just turn up.

Webinar: Education in the long run - which data are available?

15:00 - 16:00 2 April 2019
This webinar is jointly organised by the UK Data Service and CeLSIUS as part of the ESRC-funded data resource's collaborative webinar series, ESRC data resources: discovering data and…

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