Events at The Manchester Museum
25 Aug 2010
Family-friendly promenade and private view of new exhibition
Contact and Aqueous Humour present People In Glass Cases Shouldn't Throw Stones
The Manchester Museum
26-28 August, 12 noon & 3pm
In a futuristic museum, people are being cryogenically preserved and then temporarily restored to life to be gaped and gawped at. Unaware of the watching audience, the exhibits live out their lives in an infinite loop of life and death. But when a stone gets thrown, the glass shatters and the loop becomes undone ...
Devised by Manchester-based company Aqueous Humour and performed by Contact's Young Actors Company, People In Glass Cases Shouldn't Throw Stones is a family-friendly promenade set in the Museum's Animal Life 1 Gallery.
Free, all ages
Book on:
- 0161 274 0600
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Invitation to the private view of Finding Manchester, lost in Bolivia
The Manchester Museum, Monday 6 September, 5.30-7.30pm
Nick Merriman, Director of The Manchester Museum, invites you to celebrate the opening of the exhibition
Finding Manchester, lost in Bolivia
Monday 6 September 2010, 5.30-7.30pm
Introduced by:
- Nick Merriman, Director of The Manchester Museum
- Chris Smith, Pieces of Sky
- Liz Peel, Pieces of Sky
Speeches 6pm
Refreshments
RSVP:
0161 306 1584
The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
Manchester, lost in Bolivia
4 September 2010 - 30 January 2011
Free entry
Follow Chris Smith and Liz Peel on their amazing four month journey through the Amazon in search of the small South American village of Manchester
Chris Smith and Liz Peel came across the village of Manchester on a 1950s Russian air map of Bolivia. Intrigued by this, they set out on a canoe along the Rio Manuripi River in the Bolivian Amazon in South America to find it. Liz and Chris spent four months on the river, negotiating tropical storms, eating piranha fish and aided only by basic equipment, before reaching the small village. Home to less than thirty families living in huts around a football pitch, the village was founded in the late 1800s when Anthony Webster-James, a young Mancunian engineer, moved there to set up a rubber smelting plant in the height of South America's rubber boom.
See this amazing journey come to life through photos, journal extracts, expedition equipment and Museum objects.