All events

Applied Economics Seminar - Laura Grigolon (Mannheim)

13:00 - 14:15 12 December 2019
Title: TBA

Calm

18:00 - 21:00 12 December 2019
Thurs 12 Dec Calm: 6-9pm With ambient lighting, peaceful art workshops, object handling, sensory stations and quiet spaces. Join us at Calm Night and explore the Museum at a quieter…

CIDRAL Event: Dina Nayeri in conversation with Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

14:00 - 16:00 12 December 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Dina Nayeri, novelist and author of A Teaspoon…

Creepy-Crawly Chronicles Children’s Story Competition

7 December 2019 - 9 March 2020
From ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ to 'Spiderman’, insects have inspired countless much-loved stories and comics. Enter your ideas into our story competition to…

Curator Tour: Seeing the Invisible

11:00 - 11:30 12 December 2019
Mysterious text, invisible to the naked eye, locked within manuscripts for over 1000 years. Using modern imaging we can now reveal these secrets, transforming our ideas about long…

Cézanne at the Whitworth

24 August 2019 - 1 March 2020
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist,…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Todd Klutz

14:00 - 16:00 12 December 2019
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Elizabeth Price

25 September 2019 - 1 March 2020
Bringing together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video - this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and…

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…

Family Stargazing Night

19 October 2019 - 8 February 2020
6pm – 9pm Calling all budding young stargazers. You are invited to join us for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. During our fun-packed evening you will enjoy…

Festive Concert

19:00 - 20:30 12 December 2019
In this popular annual Festive Concert, soloist Katie Emmanuel performs Elgar’s Sea Pictures, whilst Ad Solem and The Symphony Orchestra come together to perform a Bach Cantata, also…

Getting to Know Your Camera: Photography Workshop

24 November 2019 - 12 January 2020
10am – 1pm Ever wanted to take your camera off the auto setting and see how you can be in more control of the images you make and be able to explore more creative options? In our introduction…

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…

Introduction to Astrophotography

23 October 2019 - 26 February 2020
Introduction to Astrophotography Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November, 15th January and 26th February, 7.30pm – 10pm Jodrell Bank's popular Introduction to Astrophotography workshops…

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…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Teresa Anderson

19:30 - 21:00 12 December 2019
Lovell Lecture Jodrell Bank Observatory: World Heritage Site Professor Teresa Anderson Thursday 12th December, 7:30pm Jodrell Bank is the UK’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site. Join…

Meditating in Nature

17:30 - 18:30 12 December 2019
Meditating in Nature is an opportunity for you to switch-off after work and experience a deep sense of calm whilst enjoying the beauty of the grounds at The Whitworth. When we are mindful…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert with Nicholas Cox (clarinet) and Michelle Assay (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 12 December 2019
Shostakovich Quartet No. 4, in D, Op. 83 Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Shostakovich’s D major Quartet of 1949 turns official requirements for folk-like music to his own ends,…

Stargazing Night

15 November 2019 - 20 March 2020
7pm – 10pm Join us at Jodrell Bank for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. You’ll learn how to navigate the skies and locate the stars in our inflatable Planetarium,…

Tapestries

12 October 2019 - 1 March 2020
A tapestry is a coming together of people or things, usually thread, to make an intricate whole. This exhibition shows the breadth of the textiles at the Whitworth that are made with…

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,…

The True Cost of Christmas

2 - 16 December 2019
Want to learn how to live more sustainably? This interactive installation highlights hidden environmental impacts and shows exactly how small changes can help us all live more sustainably.…

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…

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…

Using lecture podcasting in your teaching (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

11:00 - 12:00 12 December 2019
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Woodland Maintenance and Winter Tree ID with City of Trees

12:00 - 14:00 12 December 2019
In 2016, City of Tree planted some new trees in Whitworth Park. Come and join us to help these young trees grow. Along with this practical event, you can learn how to identify trees…

Young, Rich & Famous

10:00 1 October 2019 - 17:00 1 January 2020
In this digital age of collecting selfies and more on social media, what does immortality mean? Manchester Museum’s latest installation at Manchester’s Central Library, Young, Rich…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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