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…

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…

Manchester Neurooimaging Seminar Series with Dr Martyn McFarquhar

15:30 - 16:30 9 July 2019
Martyn McFarquhar will give a talk entitled How To - Analyse group-level repeated measurements in SPM (and why you probably shouldn't)

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…

EEE Colloquium with Andrew Taberner

11:30 - 14:30 16 July 2019
Title: Novel sensing and measurement techniques in bioinstrumentation https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ferranti-eee-seminar-tickets-64165427521 Abstract: At the Bioinstrumentation…

Manchester Neuroimaging meets Liz McManus and the public engagement team

15:30 - 16:30 16 July 2019
Liz McManus and the public engagement team invite you to come and see our current outreach activities and bring your new ideas!

Manchester Neuroimaging seminar series with David Coope

15:30 - 16:30 23 July 2019
David Coope will give a talk entitled Imaging the tumour and the microenvironment in neuro-oncology

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series with Daniel Cox and Ben Dickie

15:30 - 16:30 30 July 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Project Discussion Meeting with Daniel Cox NEW PROJECT: Clinical optimisation of diffusion orientation complexity imaging Ben Dickie NEW PROJECT idea for fellowship:…

Special seminar: Chris Evans, Mucins, macrophages and matrix

12:00 - 13:00 5 August 2019
Chris Evans is visiting from the University of Colorado and will give a talk on Mucins, macrophages and the matrix

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

17 August 2019 - 5 July 2020
Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity In the middle of the nineteenth century wallpaper design suddenly became diverse. English manufacturers began to excel at the quick production…

Centre for Biological Timing Seminar – Professor Charles Czeisler, Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

13:00 - 14:00 21 August 2019
The Centre for Biological Timing welcomes Professor Charles Czeisler from Harvard University. All are welcome.

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