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New term excitement
Posted by: Cat on: September 7, 2011
Pens, paper and lesson plans at the ready: the new school year is upon us! And how quickly the summer seems to have whizzed by. We’ve been busy here at The Museum reviewing our entire learning programme and working on new ideas to revamp some of the old favourites whilst also racking our brains for [...]
New Primary Learning Co-ordinator
Posted by: debbiedoran on: August 29, 2011
Hello everyone, I’m Debbie Doran the Primary Learning Co-ordinator at the Museum. I just wanted to say Hello! and give you a taste of the wonderful things to come! There will be a brand new Temporary Egypt Exhibition on the ground floor opening on September 30th. This will be an interactive, explorative and new insight [...]
Vote for The Manchester Museum in the National Lottery Awards
Posted by: Cat on: June 14, 2011
The Manchester Museum and Imperial War Museum North are delighted to let you know that the In Touch Volunteer Programme has reached the semi-finals of The National Lottery Awards! We now need your support to get us to the finals, and it’s your vote that will help to us get there! Please click on this link to [...]
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 [...]
Blogs ‘R’ Us!
Posted by: Cat on: January 25, 2011
Recently, you may have noticed a couple of small changes. In order to make the most of the diverse activities and learning offers across two of the Cultural Assests of the University of Manchester we have split the blog according to venue. So, you can stick with us here to find out about everything at The [...]
Museums of Museums Fundraiser
Posted by: Cat on: January 19, 2011
On Thurs 27 Jan from 5pm until midnight there is going to be a fantastic fundraiser event with King Tut to raise money for The Manchester Museum’s Ancient Worlds galleries. Come along to the Museum of Museums, at the Trafford Centre to see this spectacular exhibition, Tutankhamun – His Tomb and His Treasures, where this extra special event will taking [...]
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Cat on: January 4, 2011
So the festivities are over and after a quiet spell on the Learning Blog we are all back at the Museum and Art Gallery ready to enthuse students and make learning outside the classroom a fun and engaging activity for all. We will be blogging about our new projects and workshops soon, but in the [...]
We thank the following schools for visiting The Manchester Museum between 29th November & 3rd December 2010
Posted by: Nora on: December 3, 2010
Birchfields Primary Bury College Cardinal Newman RC High,Warrington Cheadle Hulme Junior Crowe Primary, North Lincs Holycross College, Bury Horton St Michael, Leek Hulme Court Prep, Oldham Moorallerton Prep, West Didsbury Mosspark Junior, Stretford Rosendale Primary, Doncs Ruskin Sports College, Crewe St Hildas Primary, Oldham St John’s Primary, Ripley St Lukes Primary, West Salford Westwood Primary, [...]
What’s our style?
Posted by: Cat on: September 13, 2010
So you may have noticed that we have changed our look…Depending on how long you have been following the blog, you may realise that we have reverted to the previous style originally adopted for the page. We got some feedback suggesting that this older format was easier to navigate and read, and so we’ve returned [...]
Myths and Monsters… live!
Posted by: Neil Dymond-Green on: March 2, 2010
You may remember that, back in October, I mentioned our new ‘Myths and Monsters’ resource that we’ve been developing. ‘Myths and Monsters’ is a literacy-based self-guide resource. It was originally designed for classes who have taken part in our popular ‘Travellers and Traders’ session and would to continue the Ancient Greek theme through the rest [...]
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