People are starting to value wild more, from wild back gardens to large-scale rewilding projects. But wild means different things to different people.

‘Wild’ is a new exhibition from our Manchester Museum that will explore the very concept of wild and different perspectives to bring a richness to our understanding of it.

It will highlight examples from the UK and around the world of the ways people are currently using wildness to shape the landscapes around us. From Yellowstone, to the Knepp Estate and urban Manchester projects, visitors to the exhibition will experience the various ways rewilding and conservation is being done. It will ask how we might want to shape our future. By sharing inspiring stories and advice and guidance to support individual or collective intentions, Wild will move from speculation to action.

Wild will be hosted in Manchester Museum’s stunning new Exhibition Hall, which aims to showcase cutting-edge research in engaging ways and to bring people together to explore big ideas and possibilities.

The museum is currently closed to the public while it undergoes a major transformation and it will reopen in February 2023. The first exhibition on reopening will be ‘Golden Mummies of Egypt’, which is currently touring in China, and it will be replaced by Wild from late 2023.