Learning at The Manchester Museum

The Secondary and Post-16 Science programme at The Manchester Museum is part of the Real World Science (RWS) partnership with 4 other museums nationwide, including the Natural History Museum. The RWS partnership aims to develop and deliver engaging learning activities for secondary students that enrich and extend the science curriculum.  Over the past year, we [...]

We’ve been super busy with end of term visits and activities here over the last month or so and we’re lucky to be really well supported by our curatorial team. Here’s a blog post from Gina, a curatorial trainee here at the Museum, who helped us trial our new Enrichment Days (more about those over [...]

Check out the post on our sister blog at Enquire Manchester on some young curators from Manchester Creative Media (boys) who developed a fantastic exhibition here at the Museum: http://enquiremanchester.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/howd-the-young-curators-do-and-whats-next/

  Following the extremely successful launch of the Museum of Mystery on Saturday, I am delighted to annouce the web address of this fantastic new resource so you can access the website yourself.  Find the Museum of Mystery at www.museumofmystery.org.uk.    Please log on, tackle some of the tasks, solve the mystery and be well on your [...]

The Museum of Mystery, a brand new interactive web resource finally launches on Saturday 7th May!! It is aimed at students aged 7-16  and has been created by the Manchester Museum and a web development company called iflourish.  It accompanies our new Living Worlds gallery that has recently been opened and focuses on some of [...]

Hello everyone. My name is Dena Bagi, and I’ve recently taken control of the secondary arty happenings here at Manchester Museum. I am really excited about the next few months – we have loads going on! Young curators have been let loose on the collection at the Museum, independent creatives will be exploring the Museum [...]

On Wednesday 23rd March 2011 The Manchester Museum will be hosting a conference day for teachers and educators linked with the current temporary exhibition, on loan from the British Museum, China: Journey to the East. This full day event will explore ways to engage learners of all ages with China in formal and informal settings. Come [...]

What do you get if you cross The Manchester Museums live animal collection with the Institute of Photon Sciences at The University of Manchester? Why our Frogs and Physics A-Level Study day of course!! During November, we ran two Frogs and Physics A-Level Study days for lucky students from Salford City College and Blue Coat [...]