In addition to Manchester Museum’s array of treasures including a T.Rex, fossils, ancient Egyptian artefacts, amphibians and reptiles, there are a number of free exhibitions running and coming up in August: Romuald Hazoumè: Dance of the Butterflies 14 February 2015-September 2015 Dance of the Butterflies is a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s…
The Whitworth has been shortlisted for the UK’s most prestigious architecture prize, the RIBA Stirling Prize. The news comes following its ambitious £15 million redevelopment of the 126 year-old Whitworth before reopening on 14 February, since when over 230,000 have visited the gallery, breaking all previous annual records. The shortlisting acknowledges the work carried out…
Manchester Art Gallery has announced that it will present An Exhibition for Modern Living by British contemporary artist Matthew Darbyshire from September. The showing will be Darbyshire’s largest solo exhibition to date, including ten of his large-scale environments from the last decade and new sculptural works for the Gallery’s grand 19th century entrance hall. Darbyshire’s…
The Heritage Lottery Fund is set to fund a major development of Manchester Jewish Museum which will result in a new museum extension, housing new galleries, learning and event spaces as well as the full restoration of the museum’s historic synagogue building. An initial funding of £426,900 has been awarded to help the museum progress…
Renowned work to form part of Artists in the Frame exhibition Manchester Art Gallery will present the exhibition Artists in the Frame: Self-portraits by Van Dyck and Others from 21 May – 31 August. The show, curated by Rebecca Milner, explores why and how artists choose to represent themselves and brings together 20 works by…
Contemporary artist, Romuald Hazoumè, to give away butterflies from six of his compositions Contemporary African artist Romuad Hazoumè and Manchester Museum are set to encourage political engagement on Election Day by giving away butterflies from six of his compositions to celebrate the power of voters to topple or install politicians through the force of democracy….
Manchester’s newly reopened The Whitworth has announced its next major exhibition is set to be the first UK show from the renowned M+ Sigg Collection. The exhibition, Four Decades of Chinese Art, will bring together 80 significant works from leading contemporary Chinese artists including Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei and Zhang Peili Four Decades of Chinese…
Manchester’s The Whitworth and Dunham Massey’s Georgian Country House have been announced as two of the six museums shortlisted for the 2015 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year. The Museum of the Year annually surveys museums and galleries across the UK, awarding one outstanding winner a prize of £100,000. Previous winners have been…
The Munitionettes 3 – 19 April : 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm and 2.30pm (duration 20 minutes) Recommended for ages 7 years + To tie in with the opening of MOSI’s brand new exhibition, The Innovation Race: Manchester’s Makers Join the First World War, the Easter Programme centres around the mighty and larger-than-life theme of Power:Fighting War from the Factory…
London based artist Emily Allchurch has launched her new exhibition In the Footsteps of a Master at Manchester Art Gallery. Using photography to recreate old master paintings and prints, providing a new narrative and context to classic works, Allchurch’s exhibition marks her first solo show in a major public gallery in the UK and during…
