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Bike Registration Event

12:30 - 13:30 15 January 2020
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

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…

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…

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…

Grubtime Natter

12:30 - 13:30 15 January 2020
Grubtime Natter Wednesday 15 January 12.30-1.30pm Sylvia’s Space Scarabs, Moths and Spiders – find out more about some of the stories of the beasts featured in Beauty and the Beasts…

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…

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

13:00 - 14:00 15 January 2020
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…

Seminar: Computer Science Atlas Talk in Kilburn L.T 1.5. Automating software development: When will we stop programming?

13:00 - 14:00 15 January 2020
Join us for our next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Dr Barry Porter, Lancaster University on Wednesday 15 January 2020 at 1pm in Kilburn L.T 1.5 Abstract: Despite extensive…

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,…

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…

What Now? Architecture History Today

14:00 - 17:00 15 January 2020
"What Now? Architecture History Today", an event with Michiel Dehaene, Anne Kockelkorn and Huda Tayob (plus inputs by Richard Brooks, Kim Förster, Lukasz Stanek, Lea-Catherine Szacka and Ola Oduku).

Abracadabra: Printing demo

11:15 - 11:30 16 January 2020
Watch our beautiful Columbian printing press in action and discover the power of ancient words. Shazam! Did you know that people used to think words had the power to ward off illness…

CMI Seminar: Bayesian Methods for Population Forecasting

15:00 - 16:15 16 January 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Jon Forster from The University of Warwick who will be speaking on the topic: Bayesian Methods for Population Forecasting Abstract The estimation…

Curator Tour: Seeing the Invisible

11:00 - 11:30 16 January 2020
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…

Webinar: Introduction to agent-based modelling for social scientists

15:00 - 16:00 16 January 2020
Social science seeks to understand and predict patterns involving human behaviour, many of which are large-scale and complex. But social science explanations or predictions can be difficult…

Finds Liaison

10:00 - 16:00 17 January 2020
Finds Liaison 10am-1pm and 1.30-4pm Heather Beeton , the Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be in Manchester Museum. Come and see her if you have you need…

MaRMN Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 17 January 2020
Professor Kostas Kostarelos, The University of Manchester "How does the Brain respond to Implantation of Macro- and Nano-Devices?"

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

13:00 - 14:00 18 January 2020
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…

Aperture

10:30 - 11:30 19 January 2020
Calling all photographers! This is a fantastic opportunity to capture the beauty of our Historic Reading Room, before the Library opens to the general public. You’re welcome to bring…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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