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Early Years programmes

Posted by: Elaine on: May 2, 2012

We are in the process of updating the early years page on our website and thought it would be useful to highlight our current programmes led by museum staff … Sessions for Nursery and Reception For up to 15 children (90 minutes) £3.50 per child (minimum charge £50) Animal Explorers – Polar Bear Polar Bear [...]

Year 9 Free Workshop Offer

Posted by: Cat on: October 24, 2011

The Manchester Museum is offering a limited number of History workshops for free!   Eurocentrism and Africa   Engage your Year 9 students in exploring the diversity of culture within Africa and encourage them to discuss what influence European contact had on local areas. Using Museum galleries and object handling students will have the chance [...]

Souvenirs for School groups…

Posted by: Cat on: March 4, 2011

Our commerical team have recently launched a combined Museum and Whitworth Gallery Shop Blog known as Culture Shop Manchester. The aim is to to provide a means for customers and visitors to find out what we have available in the forms of products and offers whilst giving the shops a living internet presence. One of their first [...]

No room at the inn?

Posted by: Pete Brown on: May 4, 2010

There’s a fantastic buzz in the museum’s galleries during term time. Children and young people of all ages and abilities are busy exploring the displays and developing their skills of inquiry and analysis. School groups are carefully coordinated by the Learning Team to ensure the best possible experience for every child. The timetable is organised [...]

Back in November, John Thomson, a science teacher from the local school William Hulme’s Grammar School – a ULT Academy contacted me to see if we could provide something really special for his year 7 year group during National Science Week. We came up with an exciting programme of workshops, including a talk from our [...]

Opportunities for local schools and colleges

Posted by: Louise on: March 16, 2010

We work very closely with the Widening Participation team at The University of Manchester, sharing skills and opportunities for learners.  Below is some information from a colleagues of ours, Emma Lewis, about exciting and engaging activities for Aimhigher cohorts across Greater Manchester. The Widening Participation team at The University of Manchester is really excited about [...]

Darwin Primary Science

Posted by: Menaka on: September 30, 2009

As mentioned by Cat in a previous post, the Museum’s Darwin extravaganza is now in full swing. The new Nature Discovery area is now open, as well as the photographic exhibition ‘In Darwin’s Footsteps’. Our graphic novel style exhibition ‘Charles Darwin: evolution of a scientist’ is also due to open on 3 October 2009 and [...]

Earlier this year we announced that The Museum was at maximum capacity for some of our primary offers, mostly due to the popularity of our new Egypt programme for KS2.  This excitement has trickled over into our Secondary and Post 16 learning sessions, as our science programming is absolutely chock-a-block for Summer Term! In June [...]

The Popularity of the Ancient Greeks

Posted by: Neil Dymond-Green on: January 13, 2009

At the risk of sounding back-slappingly self-congratulatory, we must be doing something right with the updated primary humanities programme, especially our Ancient Greeks sessions. “Travellers and Traders” uses drama, observation, debate and critical thinking to explore how and why the Greeks travelled and what we can learn from our Mediterranean collection. “Tall Tales” starts with [...]


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