Manchester Museum has created a mobile friendly website to enable everyone to enjoy the museum in their own homes as part of Manchester Museum in Quarantine. With the museum closed due to COVID-19, the museum has uploaded some of its most engaging digital content on to a mobile website, helping to entertain and educate until…
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…
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…
A new agency is being created to advocate and support the cultural sector in being more age friendly. The agency is being lead by Manchester Museum in collaboration with the Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing. The initiative is being backed by The Baring…
Manchester Museum has come together with the Partition Museum in Amritsar, India, to commemorate 100 years since the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. The collaboration marks the first time in Indo-UK history two Museums located in cities deeply affected by colonialism have come together to re-examine the massacre. The co-curated exhibition Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab under Siege…
Manchester Museum has been awarded a grant of £4,215,800 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a major capital project. The funds will be used to develop and transform the museum by providing new exhibition space, the North’s first South Asian gallery and an ambitious programme of activities. The news follows the previous round of development…
Manchester Museum is hosting A Rubbish Night at the Museum, questioning whether residents in Manchester have to live surrounded by rubbish.
Manchester Museums and Galleries Partnership has acquired three artworks by Lahore based artist Waqas Khan. The pieces will be used to welcome visitors in Urdu script to the Whitworth, Manchester Museum and Manchester Art Gallery. Born in 1982, Waqas Khan is produces abstract, minimalist drawings resembling webs. He is inspired by patters of biological organic…
Manchester Museum will take on a whole new life this Saturday as it becomes the scene for a colourful Saturday night in a Congolese village, the resurrection of a Mesopotamian Goddess of love and a day of family fun. The museum will host Flying Carpets, a vibrant, free, family event on Saturday 7 October 2017. The…
