Manchester Jewish Museum will mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the largest of the Nazi death-camps with two premieres of musical and theatrical performances. The creative performances are based on the real-life experiences and testimonies of Manchester Jewry, refugees and Holocaust survivors and will be staged at Manchester Central…
Manchester Museum Director Esme Ward has issued an open letter addressing the museum’s return of secret and sacred objects to Aboriginal communities in Australia. In the letter, Esme Ward addresses the concerns which people raise about repatriating items, the positives of doing so and the social responsibilities museums and institutions have. The letter comes as…
Dr Hannah Fry’s Royal Institution Christmas Lecture will be screened live and exclusively at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester. The Science and Industry Museum is the only place outside the London lecture hall where the event can be seen in advance. The live screening returns after 2018’s sell-out event and shows the lecture a…
The Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, will host two special events as their adults only evening return in November and December. Both adults only special events are inspired by the Museums current exhibition, The Sun. [adrotate banner=”3″] The Sun: Late on Wednesday 27 November will burst with solar science, poetry, music, crafts, talks, an inflatable…
Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum has announced more than 30 activities for kids this Autumn half term including a People Powered Party. The Museum has revealed more than 30 activities, workshops and shows running from Monday 21 October until Sunday 3 November with the People Powered Party the museum’s centrepiece activity. Six dynamo bikes, suitable…
Manchester Museum’s latest installation at Manchester Central Library, Young, Rich and Famous, looks at how we will be remembered after death. In an age of selfies and, let’s face it, oversharing on social media, the Museum asks what immortality actually means. Images and memories of us could live on forever digitally, but what of the…
Manchester Museum will repatriate 43 secret sacred and ceremonial objects to the Aranda people of Central Australia, Gangalidda Garawa peoples’ of northwest Queensland, Nyamal people of the Pilbara and Yawuru people of Broome. The Museum has been responsible for some of the artefacts since the 1920s and is now returning the items back to their…
There’s just a few days left to see Stephenson’s Rocket at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum before it heads off to York’s National Railway Museum. But that’s not all that’s on. There’s the opportunity to find out about the scientists shortlisted for the new £50 note; the fantastic new exhibition The Sun; and the monthly…
Have you got a story to tell about Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum? Has the museum had an impact on your life? Inspired a love of science? Influenced your career choice? Did you meet the love of your life there? This October marks 50 years since the creation of The North Western Museum of Science…
There will be free family fun in the sun at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum no matter what the whether next weekend at their Sun Playground. Running 17-18 August, the Science and Industry Museum’s Sun Playground will give kids and grownups the chance to make their own magic rainbow diffraction sunglasses, build a virtual reality…
