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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…

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…

Easter Holidays: Get Set, Blast Off!

8 - 22 April 2019
Get Set, Blast Off! (Under 7s sessions) Monday 8th – Friday 12th April: 11am and 1pm Saturday 13th April: 1pm Monday 15th – Thursday 18th April: 11am and 1pm Good Friday, Saturday…

Easter Holidays: Meet the Expert

8 - 18 April 2019
Meet the Expert Monday 8th– Thursday 18th April (weekdays only), 1pm Here’s your chance to meet one of our resident science and astronomy experts. You’ll learn all about their work,…

Easter Holidays: Science Show: It’s Elemental

8 - 22 April 2019
Science Show: It’s Elemental Monday 8th – Monday 22nd April 11am, 12am, 2:30pm (Mondays – Saturdays) Why do some things burn, or float, or stick to magnets? The answer – It’s Elemental!…

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…

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…

Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege

11 April - 2 October 2019
Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege exhibition, developed in collaboration with The Partition Museum in India. This commemorative exhibit gives voice to the untold stories of…

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…

Peterloo perspectives: a tour divided

11:00 - 11:30 12 April 2019
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT Find out why a peaceful gathering in central Manchester ended in such tragedy and bloodshed. Was it a massacre or a riot? Whose side are you on? Discover…

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…

Stars and Stones

3 April - 4 September 2019
Stars and Stones offers a rare opportunity to explore The Blackden Trust and Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre on the same day. You’ll have the chance to discover the science and the stories…

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…

Autism Friendly Early Opening

09:15 - 10:30 13 April 2019
Sat 13 April: 9.15 – 10.30am 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…

Making Marigolds and Remembrances

11:30 - 15:30 13 April 2019
Making Marigolds and Remembrances Sat 13 Apr – 11.30am – 3.30pm In India, marigolds have cultural and religious significance, and are used for making garlands and offerings for rituals,…

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

13:00 - 14:00 13 April 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…

Remembering Jallianwala Bagh, Multi-Faith Prayer

12:00 - 12:20 13 April 2019
Remembering Jallianwala Bagh, Multi-Faith Prayer Sat 13 Apr – 12pm Join representatives from Manchester’s Gurdwaras as they come together for a 100 second silence to mark 100 years…

Sunday Concerts: Brass Quartet Menine

15:00 - 16:00 14 April 2019
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. At 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons, students from the Royal Northern College of Music perform…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

11:00 - 12:00 15 April 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Ljiljana Fruk, from the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday 3 April,…

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