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The Manchester Museum

Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
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0161 275 2634

What's on at The Manchester Museum

Radiolaria – a group of single celled organisms

Alan Turing and Life's Enigma

Sat 24 Mar 2012 10am to Sun 18 Nov 2012 5pm
Tues - Sat: 10am - 5pm. Sun & Mon: 11am - 4pm

Inspired by 1950s design and combining Alan Turing’s notes with Museum objects, this exhibition documents Turing’s investigation into one of the great mysteries of nature...

Chihuahua

Breed: The British and their dogs

Sat 27 Oct 2012 10am - 5pm and 8 more

This exhibition will reveal the enduring and affectionate relationship between the British people and their dogs...

Mummy mask

Ancient Worlds

Sat 27 Oct 2012 10am - 5pm and 8 more

Explore the newly-opened Ancient Worlds galleries and find out about technology used by the ancient peoples of Greece, Rome and Egypt...

Prehistoric autopsy

Prehistoric Autopsy

Sat 27 Oct 2012 10am - 5pm and 3 more

To coincide with the BBC Two series Prehistoric Autopsy, BBC Learning is going on the road with a new hands-on exhibition aimed at families...

3D computer generated hexagonal structure of Graphene

The building of Manchester science

Sat 27 Oct 2012 11am - 12 noon

Discover how history connects with present day science on this tour of The University of Manchester campus...

Imaging at Science spectacular 2011

Science spectacular!

Sat 27 Oct 2012 11am - 3pm

Go on a journey through the heart, find out why lotus leaves don’t get wet and snuggle up to some unusual insects. Meet the scientists and engineers behind the research and take part in fun activities throughout the day...

Cloud

Urban Naturalist: Clouds

Sat 27 Oct 2012 2pm - 4pm

Join David Schlutz, weather researcher, for top tips on cloud identification to sort out your stratus from cirrus...

Wool

Sheep, socks and wire woollies

Sat 27 Oct 2012 2pm - 4pm

Create masterpieces using different knitting yarns linked to the Museum’s collections, ranging from wool, angora, nettles and wire...

Aurora borealis, for Polar

Polar: Explore

Sun 28 Oct 2012 1.30pm, 2.30pm

Hear some of the best music ever written, combined with stunning footage from some of the world's best natural history film makers, set in the stunning surroundings of The Manchester Museum...

Space

Meteorite day

Mon 29 Oct 2012 11am - 4pm

Get your hands on pieces of space rock over 4 billion years old and examine moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts...

ageing

From birth to death

Mon 29 Oct 2012 12 noon - 1pm

At the heart of our quest to understand the human life cycle are the fundamental questions of existence. Where do we come from? Where do we go?

Body and mind

Brainstorm: Sight and action

Tue 30 Oct 2012 11am - 3pm

Explore how good your own sight is and what conditions can affect vision, and discover how closely vision, action and other senses such as hearing are linked in fun demonstrations...

Dads go bang

Mummifying oranges

Wed 31 Oct 2012 12.30pm - 1.30pm and 3 more

Don your lab coats and roll up your sleeves for this hands-on workshop, where you will find out more about the ancient Egyptian mummification process as you mummify oranges...

Bloodhounds

The first CSI: Bloodhounds and crime scent investigation

Thu 1 Nov 2012 12.30pm - 1.30pm, 2.30pm - 3.30pm

Meet Victorian dog detectives, Barnaby and Burgho, and explore the science of smell...

Alan Turing

Alan Turing in Manchester: His last years and legacy

Fri 2 Nov 2012 11am - 12 noon

2012 marks the centenary of Alan Turing, the computer visionary who spent his last six years at The University of Manchester...

Ammonite

Boyd Dawkins: Ancient worlds cave hunter

Fri 2 Nov 2012 1pm - 2pm

Join historian Leucha Veneer in this talk to find out more about William Boyd Dawkins, Manchester Museum’s first curator...

Lights

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Fri 2 Nov 2012 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Building upon the knowledge of others over many generations, known as cumulative cultural evolution, is arguably unique to humans...

Turing text written

Turing text - EVENT CANCELLED

Fri 2 Nov 2012 7pm - 9pm

Comma Press presents an evening of readings, discussions and 'online AI' to commemorate the centenary of Alan Turing, one of Manchester's greatest scientists...

Alan Turing

Alan Turing: Tortured genius of the computer age

Sat 3 Nov 2012 12 noon - 2pm

Enjoy a guided walk celebrating Alan Turing, the brains behind the earliest achievement in the invention of computers, in what is his centenary year...

Gene Genius

DNA: Can it predict your future health? FULLY BOOKED

Sat 3 Nov 2012 2pm - 3.30pm

DNA technologies have the potential to impact on us all and many people expect DNA testing to become routine within medicine...

Space lizards ate my sister

Space Lizards Ate My Sister!

Sun 4 Nov 2012 2pm - 3.30pm

Children’s author Mark Griffiths talks about writing comedy science fiction for children and reads from his latest book Space Lizards Ate My Sister!