Plan your visit and book free tickets to Golden Mummies of Egypt now: http://manchestermuseum.co.uk
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Today is Qixi Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day.
What better place to tell the story of two star-crossed lovers Zhinu and Niulang, who could only meet on Qixi night, than under the star canopy of our Chinese Culture Gallery in both English & Chinese.
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Our open call for an exhibition designer for Wild closes soon!
We're looking for a designer who will help us create a landmark exhibition and work with us as we develop a more sustainable way of exhibition-making.
⏰ Deadline: Monday 21 August 2023
🔗 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/wild/exhibition-designer/
The hope for the Lady Isaious from Hawara was that she would become a god in her afterlife. Egyptian deities were said to have the flesh of untarnished gold and hair of semi-precious lapis lazuli.
Drop in for a tour of
Tuesday-Sunday, 3.15pm
👉 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/golden-mummies-tours/
📷 Julia Thorne
Today we remember the victims on the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing.
At the museum, we have a piece of molten glass from the blast in our Peace display to tell the story of Sadako, who attempted to fold 1,000 paper cranes before she died of leukaemia.
https://youtu.be/e5jXkk7zfbY
Did you you know in our Living Worlds gallery we have a piece of molten glass that was recovered from the Hiroshima nuclear bomb blast?This donation helps us...
Our Museum Café is open!
Come in and check out the new hot food menu!
Breakfast/Brunch is served from 8.30 to 11.30am, and Lunch from 12-3pm.
The aims to purchase and serve responsibly sourced food and drink without compromising the future of our planet. 🌏💚
Like bricks? 🧱
You'll love this one, from the archaeological site of Mohenjo-Daro, on display in our South Asia Gallery.
Louise & Pinar explain how one brick innovation led to the construction of massive ancient citadels.
Here's a video of the Sri Lankan mask on display in our South Asia Gallery. It was believed that illness was a curse you could be released from by dancing in the mask.
Please come and celebrate South Asian Heritage Month with us!
Take a look at this mask from Sri Lanka, on display in our South Asia Gallery. It was believed that illness was a curse that the wearer could be released fro...
Today’s the day! 🎉🥳
We are absolutely delighted to let you know that our cafe is ! ☕️
There is a new menu, and we will be serving hot food until 3pm.
Get inspired by Manchester's radical history!
In this week's family activity, you'll create a recycled rosette inspired by the stories in our Belonging Gallery.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday | 2-4pm | Drop in
👉 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/summer-of-stories/
"I want visitors to be challenged, be aware of the museum's colonial past, its present... illuminate the stories & add narratives to the objects in the museum"
We're thrilled to have Chloe as our new Social Justice Manager, working towards making our museum a more caring, inclusive and imaginative place to visit.
Something new is coming this week...
Can you guess what it is?
How would you tell your story of belonging? 🧡✨
Inspired by the Belonging Gallery, this is your chance to get creative and have a go at creating your own comic!
Every Wednesday during the school holidays
10.30-11.30am
Free | Families | Just drop in
👉 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/create-a-comic/
🖼️ Zorika Gaeta
School's out for the summer! 😎🌻
If you're planning a visit to Manchester Museum, we've got family activities all summer - but remember we're closed on Mondays!
Plan your visit 👉 https://museum.manchester.ac.uk/visit-us/
Hope you are all having a fantastic South Asian Heritage Month! 🎉
We have lots of events honouring the vibrant tapestry of South Asian culture and history.
Here's another chance to see the video of the rickshaw installation in our South Asia Gallery!
Our South Asian Film Club continues on Wednesday with Saim Sadiq’s critically acclaimed Joyland.
Check out the full programme here: https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/south-asian-film-club/
We're delighted that throughout , Dishoom Manchester will be serving complimentary House Chai from our Main Hall during our Wednesday late openings.
Stan’s hosting a wedding! Our Fossils and Dinosaurs Gallery will close at 3pm today 🦖
All other galleries will remain open until 5pm, and you will receive a warm welcome as always.
http://museum.manchester.ac.uk/visit-us/
Come and join our hive! 🐝🐝🐝
Drop in this afternoon from 2-4pm, and create your own Manchester Bee, inspired by the stories in the Belonging Gallery!
For more on this and our other family activities this summer 👇
https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/summer-of-stories/
Do you want to have a go at playing the violin, flute or trumpet?
Our Top Floor partners, Olympias Music Foundation are having an Open Day on Saturday 29 July.
Olympias Music Foundation believe that everyone should be given the opportunity to participate in music. Their Open Day is aimed at parents of children aged 6-16 in Manchester, with a special focus on those who are either on free school meals, some form of income support, or are refugees or asylum seekers.
tickets: https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/learn-to-play/
Our South Asian Film Club starts tonight with a screening of The Warrior Queen of Jhansi.
Check out the full programme here: https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/south-asian-film-club/
And don't forget that throughout , Dishoom Manchester will be serving complimentary House Chai from our Main Hall during our Wednesday late openings.
It is said that Oscar Wilde was inspired to write A Picture of Dorian Gray after seeing an exhibition of Faiyum mummy portraits in 1888. 📚✨
For more stories behind the objects, join one of our Visitor Team for a tour!
Tuesday-Sunday | 3.15pm
Just drop in
👉 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/golden-mummies-tours/
❓Did you know the ‘hippo bowl’ is at least 1,000 years older than the pyramids?
Want to know more? Join our Visitor Team for a family-friendly highlights tour. 🌟
Tuesday-Sunday | 11.15am
Just drop in
👉 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/highlights-tours/
Are you coming to Manchester Museum in the ? ☀️
To help you plan your visit, our facilities include:
🫖 Café for hot & cold drinks, sandwiches & cakes
🥪 Picnic area including a microwave
🚼 Buggy park, lockers & baby changing facilities
🔕 Quiet room for anyone who needs it
📣 Can you help us create a landmark exhibition and work with us as we develop a more sustainable way of exhibition-making?
This is an open call for an exhibition designer for Wild, a new temporary exhibition due to open in June 2024. 🌼🌿
🔗 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/wild/exhibition-designer/
Come and join our hive! 🐝✨
Inspired by stories of Bee-longing, drop in on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday this week for a family activity led by Fay Buchanan where you'll make a buzzing Manchester Bee or draw a self-portrait to add to our growing swarm!
👉 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/summer-of-stories/
What's your story? 📚✨💥
Get inspired by the comics art in the Belonging Gallery and create a comic sharing your own story of belonging.
Every Wednesday during the school holidays
10.30-11.30am
Free | Families | Just drop in
👉 https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/create-a-comic/
Our South Asia Gallery is all about storytelling. Over we are showcasing thought-provoking films to celebrate South Asian film and cinema. 🎬🍿
tickets: https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/south-asian-film-club/
Would you like to learn more about the real events Oppenheimer is based on?
Our peace display contains a real piece of molten glass from the Hiroshima blast & tells the story of Sadako, a young girl who contracted leukaemia in the blast & began folding paper cranes…
This summer, we're all about the stories! ☀️
Throughout the school summer holidays, we'll visit a different gallery each week, where you'll find hands-on activities inspired by the objects and their stories.
👉 https://museum.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/
A very special night at the museum with the launch of Request Line, an installation by the brilliant TrueForm project with a Q&A that created a space for memory and storytelling.
And we celebrated in style with complimentary chai from Dishoom Manchester. ☕️🧡
South Asian Heritage Month starts here!
Join us tonight from 6pm for the launch of Trueform's incredible vinyl archive installation, 'Request Line' in our .
👉 https://museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/true-form-presents-request-line/
And we are absolutely delighted to welcome Dishoom Manchester to the museum this evening. Throughout , they will be serving complimentary Dishoom House Chai from our Main Hall during our Wednesday late openings. 🧡
To celebrate South Asian Heritage Month, Manchester Museum & British Museum, with whom we worked in partnership, are delighted to present never-before-seen footage of our South Asia Gallery installation.
This year's theme is & we have much more to come!
BREAKING: ANCIENT MYSTERY SOLVED!🚨📜🚨
Well... sort of.
The fantastic Dr Silvia Zago from Liverpool University came to visit us recently & helped rearrange pieces of this Egyptian funerary papyri, making it legible for the first time in thousands of years!
Here's what we found...
At Manchester Museum we have non-binary people represented in both our collections and our staff.
Here's Bryony with more info about what being non-binary means and a look at our display on q***r South Asian culture.
Wishing you a very happy
Want a free movie night? 🎥🍿
Over South Asian Heritage Month, we will showcase thought-provoking films to celebrate and share South Asia film and cinema.
💰 FREE
📆 Jul 26, Aug 2, Aug 9, Aug 16
🎟️ Info & tickets:
The South Asia Gallery is all about storytelling, promoting alternative perspectives and hidden or unusual narratives. Over South Asian Heritage Month we will showcase thought-provoking films to celebrate and share South Asia film and cinema.
Come along to the launch of the True Form vinyl archive ‘Request Line’ installation in the South Asia Gallery performance space.
This is the opening event for South Asian Heritage Month, and as well as the installation, which consists of videos, animations, archival imagery, listening stations, the launch night will also include talks and music.
💰 FREE
📆 July 19, 18:00-21:00
🎟️ Info & tickets here:
Come along to the launch of the True Form Projects ‘Request Line’ installation in the South Asia Gallery.
Introducing primary school pupils for 's to this chap - the 3200 year old Userhat, a High Priest of Seth, the god of chaos.
Fortunately not feeling so chaotic today 😅
Who has had the pleasure of seeing Jane's sketchbook in our Fossils Gallery?
Jane is a volunteer on our handling table & creates these beautiful illustrations to help people with dyslexia or those who struggle with English.
Thank you, Jane! ✨👩🎨✨
Have you seen the Milu Deer in our Chinese Culture Gallery?
The last herd in China became extinct during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, but was reintroduced in the 1980s using deer that were sent to European zoos.
There are now over 10,00 in China! A great example of conservation in action.
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A beautiful taxidermy milu deer will be on display in our new Lee Kai Hung Chinese Culture Gallery from February 2023. Bryan Sitch, Deputy Head of Collections, explains how this species was brought back from the brink of extinction and how it represents the connection between China and the UK. The gallery will highlight personal stories of migration, friendships and collaboration to inspire empathy and build understanding. #MMHelloFuture #6MonthsToGo
SIX MONTHS TO GO! The museum is on schedule to reopen in February 2023. Take a look inside our extraordinary transformation. We are extending the building, making room for more joy and learning and evolving into the museum Manchester needs. We will continue to bring you plenty of behind-the-scenes content as we build up to reopening. Thank you to our funders including Arts Council, National Heritage Lottery Fund, The University of Manchester and numerous philanthropic supporters. #MMHelloFuture
Take a closer look at our Vivarium and some of its smallest residents The Vivarium is home to many critically endangered species and gives us the chance to see conservation in action! Learn more about what we’re doing as a museum to build a sustainable world, and how you can get involved👉bit.ly/2Xc14YY
When we reopen next year, Stan the T.Rex will have a new Dino friend in the museum. Introducing April the Tenontosaurus! Geology graduates from The University of Manchester joined us yesterday to look at how the skeleton fits together. It was like a real and very intense #dinosaur jigsaw 👇🏾🤣 Who’s excited to see April on display?! She will be in our new entrance area to say hello as you arrive.
We are excited to announce the release of the new album Cucusonic from The Vinyl Factory, capturing and conserving the sounds of Colombian biodiversity. The University of Manchester and charity In Place of War have worked with a team of scientists, anthropologists and musicians, turning natural soundscapes and bioacoustic data into new music. Find out more bit.ly/3Fshuhq
What is creative ageing, and how can age friendly culture impact on our wellbeing as we grow older? This week on the Manchester Museum #Podcast, Emma Horridge is joined by Dr Virginia Tandy, Director of CADA, in a conversation about age friendly culture. 🎧 http://ow.ly/QYty50FSnXL
Today is the UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. We will be sharing some of the work are we doing as part of the Indigenise Manchester Museum programme. Because it is #morethanjustaday. #IndigenousPeoplesDay Curator of Indigenous Perspectives, Dr Alexandra P. Alberda explains more:
What are 'Nature’s Rights', and who is prepared to stand up for them? Today on the Manchester Museum #Podcast, Dr Martha Dietrich, Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam joins Andrew Gray, our Curator of Herpetology in a thought-provoking conversation. 🎧 http://ow.ly/4ciP50FIAox
Is there a shared definition of 'Indigenous Rights'? Today on the Manchester Museum #Podcast Dr Alexandra P. Alberda is joined by Dr Christine Winter to discuss different cultural perspectives & how we step into complexity. 🎧 https://bit.ly/2UYuWqq
In today's fascinating encounter, we meet the Dice snake 🐍 Similar in many ways to the Grass snake, but the Dice snake is totally aquatic, living in the water and feeding on fish and amphibians. #60SecondSpecies . Find out more 👉 https://mmfromhome.com/60-second-species
We’re recruiting a part time Secondary and Post-16 Science Coordinator✨ Are you passionate about science and nature? Can you bring awe and wonder into science teaching? Will you shape the future of learning at Manchester Museum? Deadline 11 July, more info 👉bit.ly/3zT2I0h Our learning programme uses material from our collection to bring science to life. You'll have access to over 4 million objects from Archaeology to Zoology! As part of The University of Manchester we use authentic research in our learning programme. You'll work with curators, University researchers, and PhD students to inspire the next generation of scientists. You'll have an awe-inspiring backdrop for teaching and learning with our permanent galleries and temporary exhibition programme. You'll be contributing to our award winning learning programme: bringing science to life for students and teachers.✨
#ChildrensEyesMW 🦖🦕👀
#OnceUponAtimeMW ✨
We would like to say a big THANK YOU for your time, care & dedication working with our collections, and for you creativity & kindness, supporting our public programmes. ❤️ You make such a difference to the museum, our visitors and communities! #TimeToDayThanks #VolunteersWeek
Volunteers are at the heart of everything we do at Manchester Museum 🧡 The Museum and our community is so much richer thanks to your passion, knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm. We can’t wait to welcome our volunteers back into the museum – the museum is not the same without you! ❤️ Here are just some of our volunteers’ highlights of working at Manchester Museum 👇👇👇 #TimeToDayThanks #VolunteersWeek
With distinctive coconut-perfumed yellow flowers, the spiky common gorse is a beauty of our landscapes & a favourite of many insects and birds, for which it provides shelter & food. 💛 Find out more about this iconic shrub in this week's #60SecondSpecies https://www.mmfromhome.com/60-second-species …
We’re recruiting a Curator of Living Cultures. Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/xm3zU5W1KS?amp=1 Follow the thread below to see some of the projects you’ll be part of 👇👇👇 . Working with global partners like @AIATSIS with a shared ambition around cultural revitalisation, you’ll diligently and carefully work on repatriation cases, leading to emotional homecomings, like this week's return to Country of 19 Arrernte objects: https://ab.co/3fdxoRG . Delivering our #MMhellofuture transformation as we become even more inclusive, imaginative & caring, you’ll become part of the South Asia Gallery Collective, co-creating a @britishmuseum partnership gallery that will explore the experiences of South Asian diaspora communities. . You'll get imaginative around programming for our Exhibition Hall, opening in 2022 with #GoldenMummies. Help us continue this series of exhibitions which will probe aspects of decolonisation, sharing new research & fresh interpretations of our collections. https://bit.ly/3bSydgR . You'll engage with contemporary and historic concerns and injustices entwined with our collections. With the #DevolvingRestitution project, you’ll explore African collections' histories, and with peers & communities in Africa & UK, enact work that brings reconciliation & healing. . It’s an important role where you can make a big difference. You’ll have amazing colleagues by your side, an incredible collection at your fingertips and the radical history of Manchester at your shoulder. If you think this is you, find out more & apply: https://t.co/xm3zU5W1KS?amp=1
Following the latest government guidance, we regret we are now closed until further notice.
Information about reopening and booking will be put on our website and social media as soon as it is available. The health and wellbeing of our staff, visitors, volunteers, and our community are our first priority and we look forward to welcoming you to Manchester Museum as soon as it is safe to do so.
In the meanwhile, we hope that you will continue to connect with us on social media @mcrmuseum, and we have put together resources, activities and information that you can enjoy at home, you can find these on our Manchester Museum from Home site: www.mmfromhome.com
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