June at Manchester Museum

 

Dip into the Museum’s adult learning programme – Museum Meets for some taster sessions as part of Adult Learner’s Week

                

Taster Tours of Manchester Museum 

Wed 18 June and Thurs 19 June, 1pm 

 

Taster Urban Naturalist: On the Allotment

Fri 20 June 1pm-2pm 

Urban Naturalist is a Manchester Museum’s monthly series of friendly, practical workshops run by leading naturalists.  Drop by to the Manchester Museum Allotment for a taster session. 

 

Tue 24 Jun, 6-8pm 

Drop-in, free

Meet the exhibition’s project team as they share the fascinating discoveries from their dig. Find out more about excavation and excavation surveys, methods used and what archaeology can tell us.  Enjoy spotlight talks on some of the key artefacts in the exhibition, including, clay pipes and glass bottles, postcards, and toys. Have the opportunity to get a closer look at some of these objects.  Hear about future plans for Whitworth Park.

Sat 28 June, 2-4pm

Woo dale Limetsone, Shap Granite and Miller’s Dale Lave are all rocks that feature in the Manchester Museum geology garden. Join Amanda Edwards, Curator and Resource Manager at School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences University of Manchester for a geologist’s tour of this hidden resource and take part in some practical geological experiments.

 

 

Sat 14 June, 11am-4pm

Part of universities week

Drop-in, family, free

Come along and bring all the family to a day of discovery.  Become mini researchers and find out how bananas, meteorites, dinosaurs and frogs are linked together University of Manchester research.