At The Manchester Museum next week

02 Mar 2011

International Women’s Day skills swap shop (8 March) * Arguments and umbrella stands: Victorian Manchester’s natural history collections talk (17 March)

Tuesday 8 March / 3.30-5pm
International Women’s Day skills swap shop

Are you proud of the woolly jumper you’ve just knitted? Or your grandma’s legendary chocolate cake recipe? Swap your skills with others, learn Museum skills such as conservation and find out about the Museum’s women collectors.
Drop-in, free, all ages

Thursday 17 March / 12.30-1.45pm
Talk: 12.30-1.15pm
Tour: 1.15-1.45pm
Arguments and umbrella stands: Victorian Manchester’s natural history collections

In Victorian Manchester there was a Geological Society and a Natural History Society. They shared a museum, but disagreed about the admission fee – and about everything else, including the museum’s umbrella stand. Find out more and go on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum’s geology collection.
Book on 0161 275 2648, free, adults and older children

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