All events

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…

Easter Holidays: Meet the Expert

6 - 17 April 2020
1pm Here’s your chance to meet one of our resident science and astronomy experts. You’ll learn all about their work, plus have the chance to ask the space questions you’ve always wanted to ask!

Easter Holidays: Science Show: Seeing Jupiter Differently

4 - 19 April 2020
Show Times: Weekdays and bank holidays: 11am, 12pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm Weekends: 12pm, 3:30pm People have been viewing Jupiter for many centuries and over time, as we have developed different…

Easter Holidays: Seeing your little world differently

4 - 19 April 2020
11am – 4pm (drop-in any time) A drop in session for children under 5 to explore the world of how we see things including mirrors, lenses and colours. There will also be a story time…

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…

Science Learning at Home

20 March - 30 June 2020
Jodrell Bank Observatory is the UK’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site and an icon for British science and engineering. For the last 75 years, the pioneering scientists and researchers…

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…

Utopias

31 January - 4 October 2020
Utopia is, at its essence, about creating a perfect world, yet in this way, it is always in opposition with the present. In his seminal book Utopia (1516), Thomas More gave name and…

Cancelled: Easter Holiday Activities - Bees & Butterflies

14:00 7 - 16:00 9 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events programme is cancelled. We will communicate…

Cancelled: Manchester International Roots Orchestra creative workshops at Manchester Museum

14:30 - 16:30 7 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events & schools programme is cancelled.…

Neil Chada CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK On optimal annealing schedules for Langevin algorithms (Joint with work Huy Chau)

12:00 - 13:00 7 April 2020
***This seminar has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.*** Abstract: Simulated annealing is a popular optimization method designed to find global minimizers through perturbing…

Wordwear! CANCELLED

10:30 - 12:00 7 April 2020
Make your own piece of mood jewellery, inspired by poems to express how you feel. Taking different coloured beads to express different emotions, you’ll create your very own mood jewellery.…

Cancelled: Easter Holiday Activities - Insect Hotels

10:30 - 12:30 8 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events & schools programme is cancelled.…

Improving employability skills with the use of video (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 8 April 2020
The workshop will take attendees through the experience and outcomes of exploring a non-traditional assessment format. Video was used for both group and individual assessment to enhance…

Cancelled: The Manchester International Roots Orchestra perform at Manchester Museum

19:00 - 20:00 9 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events & schools programme is cancelled.…

Collection Bites: Maps, Monsters and Victorians CANCELLED

13:00 - 14:00 9 April 2020
Join us during your lunch break as we team up with our resident researchers. Explore maps collected by the Manchester Geographical Society, Victorian entrepreneurs who were passionate…

Cancelled: See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly

09:15 - 11:15 11 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events programme is cancelled. We will communicate…

Cancelled. Easter Holiday Activities - Bees & Butterflies

14:00 14 - 16:00 16 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events programme is cancelled. We will communicate…

Wordwear! CANCELLED

10:30 - 12:00 14 April 2020
Make your own piece of mood jewellery, inspired by poems to express how you feel. Taking different coloured beads to express different emotions, you’ll create your very own mood jewellery.…

Cancelled - Organic/Inorganic interactions during analysis: Implications for life detection missions to Mars

13:00 - 14:00 15 April 2020
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. Dr Samuel Royle, Imperial College London, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Attempts…

CANCELLED: 12th Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference

15 - 17 April 2020
(with a pre-conference event for PhD students and early career researchers on 14th April 2020). Registration for this event will open in December 2019. Join us for OBHC 2020 in Manchester,…

Cancelled: Easter Holiday Activities - Insect Hotels

10:30 - 12:30 15 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events & schools programme is cancelled.…

The Carcanet Cat: Printing demo CANCELLED

11:15 - 11:30 15 April 2020
See our Columbian Printing Press in action as we print the purrrfect cat! Paws for a print to learn about Manchester-based Carcanet Press. To celebrate 50 years of poetry publishing,…

Cancelled: Beauty and the Beasts Bug Ball

18:00 - 20:30 16 April 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events programme is cancelled. We will communicate…

Webinar: Getting Data from the Internet

15:00 - 16:00 16 April 2020
We all know that the Internet is awash with data not all of which is directly available on a web page. This free webinar, organised by the UK Data Service, will illustrate techniques…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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