As part of British Science Week, 550 pupils and their teachers from schools throughout Greater Manchester were invited to take in Bio-Discovery Day. Hosted by The University of Manchester and Manchester Museum, the event featured 50 researchers showcasing the wonder...
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Volunteer with Manchester Museum to inspire school pupils – ongoing applications
Calling all UoM Science Postgraduate and Undergraduate Students: Conservation in genetics workshop callout at Manchester Museum - Volunteer Positions The Manchester Museum is looking for volunteers to assist with a newly created genetics workshop for secondary schools...
Call out for Researchers – European Researchers Night, Manchester Museum 27 September 2019
Friday 27 September is European Researcher’s night and for the fifth time Manchester Museum will be hosting a special late opening showcasing Manchester’s finest researchers and their work for an adult audience. There’ll be research on show, music, drinks and a lively...
Stanley’s Big Day Out – Sat 25 May – 10am-4pm, Manchester Museum
Stanley’s Big Day Out has been inspired by Stanley, aged 7 who loves dinosaurs. Stanley has a rare form of muscular dystrophy. Manchester Museum, home to Stan the T-Rex, has teamed up with Muscular Dystrophy UK to celebrate Stanley’s love of dinosaurs and to raise...
Demonstrator Vacancies at Manchester Museum: Paid Positions for PhD Students
Manchester Museum is looking to recruit PhD students to deliver educational sessions for their Secondary (11-16 year olds) and Post-16 (16-18 year olds) programmes. The aim is to utilise PhD student’s expert knowledge to enrich the student experience for our formal...
Call For Action – Heritage Futures
Manchester Museum is looking to support new programmes, projects or events that respond to its new Heritage Futures exhibition and are inviting community groups, creative practitioners and researchers to put forward their ideas. They are interested in ideas that are...
Call out for Science Uncovered Manchester 2018
Friday 28 September is European Researcher’s night and for the fourth time Manchester Museum will be hosting Science Uncovered Manchester - a special late opening showcasing Manchester’s finest researchers and their work for an adult audience. There’ll be research on...
Become a Manchester Museum PhD Demonstrator – educational sessions for secondary school students
Manchester Museum is looking to recruit PhD students to deliver educational sessions for their Secondary (11-16 year olds) and Post-16 (16-18 year olds) programmes. This will be a paid position for the delivery of education sessions (which includes set-up and...
Science Uncovered – Friday 30 September 2016
Science Uncovered at Manchester Museum Friday 30 September is European Researcher’s night and for the second time Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, will be hosting Science Uncovered Manchester - a spectacular night showcasing Manchester’s finest...
After Hours at the Museum – Documentary Screening of The Lived Experience of Climate Change
The Lived Experience of Climate Change: A Story of One Piece of Land in Dhaka’ on 24 August 6:00pm to 9:00pm Dhaka, Bangladesh is on the front line of climate change, but what does that mean to the people living in its slums? As part of the Manchester Museum's Climate...
Twilight Evening for Researchers
Wednesday 27 April 2016, 5-7.30pm, Manchester Museum You are invited to a VIP evening in The Study at Manchester Museum, our brand new public research space. There’ll be wine, nibbles and a chance to see The Study in action with demonstrations of how researchers can...
Fifty leading scientists stage a takeover at Manchester Museum this autumn
Science Uncovered takes place on 25 September 2015 (6pm-10pm), is open to all and is completely free Manchester is one of the UK’s leading science cities, and is home to a huge number of scientists working at the leading edge of their fields. This September, Science...
Science Uncovered Manchester – European Researchers Night Friday 25 September (deadline 29 June)
Science Uncovered Manchester European Researchers Night at Manchester Museum, Friday 25 September 2015, 4-5pm – A level social and 6-10pm – Adult social – After Hours What is it? Friday 25 September is European Researcher’s night and for the first time Manchester...
From the War of Nature Exhibition talks at Manchester Museum
From the War of Nature is the latest temporary exhibition at the Manchester Museum. Check out this film for a preview of the exhibition - www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/fromthewar/ Join us for a series of talks, led by Scientists from Manchester...
Call for participants – Ideas for Life Big Saturday at Manchester Museum
To celebrate Universities week Manchester Museum is hosting a Big Saturday: Ideas for Life on Saturday 14 June. Universities Week will show how research is making a positive difference to society and our aim is to provide an engaging day looking at how the world works...
Get involved with #MuseumWeek on Twitter
#MuseumWeek, taking place from Monday 24 March to Sunday 30 March, will give Twitter users direct and unparalleled access to some of Europe’s leading museums and the people behind them in 140-character bursts. We want all our visitors to Manchester Museum to be...
Manchester Museum hosts the Body Experience & Manchester Minute Microlectures
Free public event for families - 15 March 2014, Manchester Museum Come and explore the human body with scientists from Life Sciences and Human & Medical Sciences at The University of Manchester. Collect your ‘passport’ and travel around the human body from top to...
Volunteers Needed! National Science & Engineering Week – Sunday 16 and 23 March 2014
The Manchester branch of the British Science Association are running an event for Scout groups in Manchester during National Science and Engineering week. We're looking for volunteers to help us out on the day. What is the event? Manchester Scouts Science day. On the...
Bees and Butterflies Big Saturday
Saturday 10 August, 11am-4pm at Manchester Museum At our summer extravaganza you can meet bees and butterflies and find out about their important work in pollinating plants. Rain or shine join us at the Museum in our allotment, Nature’s Library gallery and Living...
#cakehenge – Call for Entries – Part of the Festival of Archaeology Activities
Here is your chance to show off your baking skills! Fancy making a pyramid out of cake or a scarab cup cake? Be inspired by our Ancient Worlds gallery and get baking! Take a picture of your masterpiece and tweet @McrMuseum including the hashtag, #cakehenge. We will...
Big Sat: The Body Experience & Manchester Minute Microlectures – 16 March 2013
As part of National Science and Engineering Week, Manchester Museum is hosting the following public events: Big Saturday: The Body Experience, 16 March 2013, 11am - 4pm Come and explore the human body with scientists from Life Sciences and Human and Medical Sciences...
Ancient Worlds talks at the Manchester Museum: Boyd Dawkins and Life at Kahun
The Manchester Museum is hosting two public talks this week as part of the Ancient World Exhibition. Boyd Dawkins: Ancient worlds cave hunter - 2 November 2012, 1-2pm Join historian Leucha Veneer in this talk to find out more about William Boyd Dawkins, the...
BBC prehistoic autopsy tour at the Manchester Museum
Prehistoric Autopsy is a three part BB2 programme starting tonight, Monday 22 October at 9pm. It’s a journey into our evolutionary past, piecing together the bodies of our prehistoric family. The Manchester Museum is pleased to hosting a BBC learning exhibition linked...
What a dog can tell us? Talk by Jo Longhurst at the Manchester Museum
Artist Jo Longhurst is speaking at the Museum on Tuesday 23 October at 6pm on ‘What a dog might tell us: on photography, perfectibility, and the aesthetics of breed.’ For several years Jo worked with eminent British Whippet breeders, photographing their dogs by...
Manchester Museum – Breed: The British and their Dogs
The Manchester Museum is hosting Breed: The British and their Dogs, an exhibition that tells the history of the British Isles through the eyes of dogs and their owners. Breed reveals the enduring and affectionate relationship between the British people and their dogs...