FROM HOME
Events
From frogs to Ancient Egypt, we’ve got you covered! Check out our free events for all ages here.
Every Monday - Online event
From Alamosaurus to Zuul, stomp through the alphabet and explore the extraordinary world of dinosaurs with Eli Lilly and Company Extraordinary Scientist-In-Residence Dr. Victoria Egerton.
June, Online and Heaton Park
Throughout June, we’ll be celebrating the wildlife we find in Manchester. Look out for the Manchester Festival of Nature online and in Heaton Park on June 27th.
19 May to 31 August 2021 - Manchester Museum
How does nature make you feel? Discover Wild Chorus and Voicing Silence, two new artistic responses to the beauty, complexity and decline of wildlife.
Past events
Sunday 20 June, 11am-11.45
A LIVE virtual visit to Manchester Museum's Vivarium - live animals gallery
Thursday 3 June, 11.30am -12.15pm
Will you be out nature spotting this May half term? What wildlife will you see? From birds to butterflies and everything in between.
Saturday 29 May, 10.30 - 11.15am
Get crafty & create nature inspired collages from natural/found items
20 May 2021
Get ‘inside’ Manchester Museum before it reopens, and discover how scientists past and present collect and learn about nature!
3 March 2021
Join Manchester Museum in the celebration of UN World Wildlife Day 2021 - Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet on 3 March 2021 from 2pm.
11 - 28 February 2021
Join Manchester Museum to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year 2021 as we welcome the Year of the Ox, a symbol of strength and determination.
6 August 2020
Please join us on Thursday, 6 August 2020 online to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Weapons Attack and remember all innocent victims of war and terrorism.
28 June 2020
LIVE natural arts with Manchester Museum and The Whitworth, part of Festival of Nature
Saturday 19 June, 2pm -2,45pm
A live family friendly story-making & language sharing event using museum objects as inspiration.
Wednesday 2 June, 3pm (BST) / 9am (CST )
A digital showcase of fun family-friendly activities.
Join us for three days of exploration, interaction and conversation.
27 May 2021
Discover more about Ancient Egypt with Dr Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan Live.
Egyptology Live, Thursday 27 May - 2pm, on YouTube.
19 May 2021 - ongoing
How does nature make you feel? Discover Wild Chorus and Voicing Silence, two new artistic responses to the beauty, complexity and decline of wildlife.
30 January 2021
Do you have your Dino sketchbook ready? Celebrate National #DrawADinosaurDay, Saturday 30 January 2021, with our Curator of Earth Sciences David Gelsthorpe, and join us for this roarsome online family friendly event.
Multiple Dates
Tune in on Periscope @McrMuseum every Friday at 1pm where we will be live from the Vivarium answering all of your frog questions
28 June 2020
A chance to find out more about Manchester Museum’s spectacular collection of over 4.5 million objects and to meet some of the team of curators who look after it.
Tuesday 1 June, 11.30am -12.15pm
Will you be out nature spotting this May half term? What wildlife will you see? From birds to butterflies and everything in between.
11, 25 March - 15 April 2021
Come and find out about Pakistan best kept secret, the Lahore Museum. A panel discussion with Anwar Akhtar, Manchester Museum and the Osch collective around Diaspora, Identity and Languages
Multiple Dates
A social prescribing programme; of a series of friendly, interactive, music sessions, led by music therapist, Rachel Swanick .
28 June 2020
LIVE plant pressing workshop with Rachel Webster, curator of Botany at Manchester Museum, part of Festival of Nature