Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Dr Matteo Salvalaglio

11:00 - 12:00 3 June 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Matteo Salvalaglio, from University College London, UK, on Monday 3…

Data Analytics

12:00 - 15:30 3 June 2019
Aim: To give an overview of data analytics in evidence-based medicine and some practical examples of how data science is being applied to health research. To be held in Seminar Room…

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…

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…

Li Yuan Chia: Unique Photographs

18 May - 15 December 2019
In his lifetime, Li Yuan Chia (1929-1994) travelled from China, to Taiwan, Bologna and London but found his home in a house that he bought in 1972 from Winifred Nicholson in Banks at…

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…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research

13:00 - 14:00 3 June 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 3 June 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Talk practice for the annual meetings of…

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,…

Who Cares? - 'A growing collection of stories about people caring for nature across Greater Manchester.'

2 May - 31 July 2019
A growing collection of stories about people caring for nature across Greater Manchester. A Heritage Futures Studio Residency at Manchester Museum 29th April - 31st July 2019 In…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Modelling international migration: State of the art, and new research frontiers - Prof Jakub Bijak

15:00 - 16:30 4 June 2019
Speaker: Prof Jakub Bijak, Professor of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton Abstract: Two defining features of contemporary international migration are its…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series New project discussion meeting with Alex Kafkas and Jaleel Miyan

15:30 - 16:30 4 June 2019
Dr Alex Kafkas will give a seminar entitled Optimising the simultaneous acquisition of eye tracking and fMRI data using a well established memory task Dr Jaleel Miyan will give a seminar…

The Politics of Memory and Identity: Remembering and Forgetting the “Century of Humiliation” in China

12:30 - 13:30 5 June 2019
Manchester China Institute Lunch Talk The Politics of Memory and Identity: Remembering and Forgetting the “Century of Humiliation” in China Dr Yi Wang Post Doc Research Associate…

CANCELLED: CMI Afternoon Seminar: Citizen competence in direct democracy - Dr Céline Colombo

15:00 - 16:15 11 June 2019
Speaker: Dr Céline Colombo, University of Zurich Abstract: An abstract will be available closer to the date of the seminar. Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45. Join us for this event,…

A comparative theoretical study of s-block and f-block reactivity

13:00 - 14:00 13 June 2019
Join us with the seminar speaker Professor Laurent Maron from University of Toulouse for a comparative theoretical study of s-block and f-block reactivity.

Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today

14 June - 6 October 2019
This exhibition of five contemporary artists presents their work in conversation with pieces selected from the Whitworth’s art collection. It brings together the artworks and stories…

Chronicling the War, Re-imagining French-ness: Memoirs of the French external Resistance

14 June 2019
Friday 14 June - 11.00 - 18.00, Samuel Alexander A115. One-day workshop - 'Chronicling the War, Re-imagining French-ness: Memoirs of the French external Resistance' organized by…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 17 June 2019

13:00 - 14:00 17 June 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 17 June 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 “Derivation of research data from clinical…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: From the social to the biological - Dr Tony Robertson

15:00 - 16:15 18 June 2019
Speaker: Dr Tony Robertson, University of Stirling Abstract: Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45. Join us for this event, which is part of the CMI Afternoon Seminar Series. All welcome.…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series with Jason Taylor

15:30 - 16:30 18 June 2019
Dr Jason Taylor will demonstrate how to USE ICA for M/EEG analysis Chaired by Martyn McFarquhar

MICRA 2019 Annual Lecture on Extending Working Lives: the implications for winners and losers in the changed UK policy landscape

17:00 - 20:00 18 June 2019
MICRA is pleased to announce Professor Sarah Vickerstaff will be hosting the MICRA 2019 Annual Lecture on Extending Working Lives: the implications for winners and losers in the changed…

Words and Pictures: Letters in Modern Art and Fiction

12:30 - 16:30 19 June 2019
Please join us from 12.30 pm for a symposium on visual elements in letters at the John Rylands Library on Deansgate. The introduction and collection encounter will start at 1.30 pm.…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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