The city of Manchester will celebrate South Asian art and design with nine shows across museums and galleries. Leading South Asian and British artists of South Asian decent will join a celebration of shared heritage and historic connections through a series of exhibitions and performances. Events will take place at the Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery,…
Manchester Museum is marking the 70th anniversary of independence and Partition with its new exhibition Memories of Partition. The exhibition captures the memories of those affected by the 1947 Partition of India into India and Pakistan (and later Bangladesh in 1971). The partition of India led to the largest mass migration in human history, with…
Manchester Museum and the Museum of New Zealand Te Pap Tongarewa have announced the repatriation of a Moriori jawbone. Manchester Museum has been responsible for the ancestral remains since the 1890s but has been actively returning indigenous remains to their communities of origin since 2004. Written on the inside of the jawbone is ‘Chatham Isles….
Manchester After Hours returns on Thursday 18 May as the city’s arts and music scene comes alive in the evening. The annual event, part of the UK wide Museums at Night, will witness 15 original, largely free events. The line up is set to include gigs on wheels, video installations projected onto landmark aircraft and…
A series of Kashmir inspired paintings including new work by Raqib Shaw will be displayed at The Whitworth. The collection will include renaissance drawings, sculptures, textiles and limited-edition wallpaper. The exhibition will take the form of an installation, drawing on influences of renaissance and baroque imagery, combined with theatrical extravagance, nature and poetry, to echo…
Manchester Museum, has commissioned a gallery installation by Syrian-born artist Zahed Taj-Eddin, which reflects on the Museum’s world-class Egyptology collection – Shabtis: Suspended Truth at Manchester Museum Shabtis: Suspended Truth at Manchester Museum The commission, a response to the current political debate on the subject of migration, places a multitude of his faience ceramic ‘Nu’ Shabti…
Megan Powell appearing at Thursday Late at Manchester Museum Manchester Museum is set to host artist Megan Powell for a Thursday Late celebrating the culmination of her two-year-long Arts Council England funded project, After The Bees. The evening will include two screenings of Powell’s feature-length film, A Fable For Tomorrow, a surrealist documentation which imagines…
Engaging visitors with contemporary issues at Manchester Museum. Manchester Museum has acquired a refugee’s life jacket, which is now on display in the entrance to the museum. In doing so, Manchester Museum is seeking to engage visitors with one of the major issues of our time, migration, which has been cited as a major factor…
19th century life science teaching objects on public display for the first time at Manchester Museum. The private collection of prolific art collector George Loudon is set to go on public display for the first time at Manchester Museum as a part of the museum’s Object Lessons exhibition. The display will feature his collection of 19th…
Major donation moves plans for permanent South Asia gallery a step closer A major gift by Shalni and Simon Arora through the Savannah Wisdom Foundation and B&M Retail has given a significant boost to the fundraising effort for a new permanent South Asia Gallery, which will be the first in the country to present the deep history…
