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…

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…

Digital Health Seminar: Dr Henry Potts

13:00 - 14:00 19 June 2019
Abstract: Most publicly available apps have not been evaluated in the scientific literature, and most apps evaluated in the scientific literature are not publicly available. Apps are…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

CoDE Seminar: Neighbourhood Effects on Individual Wellbeing

12:00 - 13:00 20 June 2019
There is a long history of research in the role of place in shaping individuals’ economic and social life chances, and the number of empirical papers on this topic is on the rise. Albeit,…

Tyndall Manchester Seminar- Buildings as Power Plants: The role of buildings as active components in our future energy networks

13:00 - 14:00 20 June 2019
Using a campus building as a case study, we considered the potential for the building to offer flexibility to the local electricity network by reducing import from the network at the…

Morgan Centre seminar: Why Snobbery Still Matters (David Morgan)

13:45 - 15:30 21 June 2019
From one perspective snobbery seems slightly quaint, certainly old-fashioned and somewhat marginal to contemporary concerns. Yet, a quick look at a week's newspapers would indicate…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Villiam Bortolotti

11:00 - 12:00 24 June 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Villiam Bortolotti, from Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna,…

International responses to crisis: Communications, “remediation” measures and their psychosocial impacts (focus on Chernobyl and Fukushima)

12:00 - 14:00 24 June 2019
12:00-13:00 Lunch and lecture 13:00-14:00 Activity session (optional) Delivered by the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Director of External Relations, Adrian Bull, and Plant Chemist…

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