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The Manchester Museum Events List

Saturday 4 December 1.00 – 4.00pm
Christmas Open House – Bring your family and join us for an afternoon of festive entertainment. Follow performances of music and drama throughout the Museum. Brought to you in collaboration with the Big Issue. Please bring a donation of books, toiletries or winter clothing (such as hats, gloves & scarves) for the homeless.

Wednesday 8 December 12.30 – 1.30pm
Precious Metals – (Keith Sugden, Keeper of Numismatics and Phyllis Stoddart , The Manchester Museum) – Find out more about the coin hoards to be seen in the 'Buried Treasure' exhibition and the war medals of Edward Carter Preston, on view in the special exhibition 'Lest we forget'. Please call 0161 275 2648 to book your place. FREE

Saturday 11 December 1.30 – 2.30pm
Hidden Treasures – Join the Museum’s Keeper of Archaeology at the ‘Buried Treasures’ exhibition handling table to view some of the treasures from the collection. Drop-in event, FREE

Saturday 11 December 1.00 – 4.00pm
Discovery Detectives – View ‘Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past’ and bring your own finds to be examined by Nick Herepath, Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme (valuations not given). You can also learn more about the work done to conserve the Museum’s treasures. Drop-in event, FREE

Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 December 2.30pm
The Grand Tour – Join Graeme Pye, our very own ‘Victorian gentleman’ guide on this special tour of the Museum. Meet at reception. FREE

Wednesday 15 December 12.30 – 1.30pm
Eye of the Beholder (Dr. Matthew Ponting, Liverpool University) – There is more to value than meets the eye. Discover how scientific analysis of ancient coins and metal artefacts provides insight into past societies and reveals a value beyond money. Please call 0161 275 2648 to book your place FREE


The Manchester Museum has free entry and is open daily
10am - 5pm and on Sundays and Bank Holidays from 11am -4pm.
www.manchester.ac.uk/museum

 

Not quite in Manchester but fairly close - They get further away down the list!

Hat Works Museum of Hatting - this is in Stockport centre and you can get a train to Stockport really easily. Stockport, Cheshire SK3 0EU

Quarry Bank Mill Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 4LA

Helmshore Textile Museums Rossendale, Lancashire BB4 4NP Museum of the Lancashire Textile Industry Rossendale, Lancashire BB4 4NP Lion Salt Works Trust Marston, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 6ES Northwich Salt Museum Northwich, Cheshire CW9 8AB St.Helens Transport Museum St Helens, Merseyside WA10 1DU Astley Hall Museum & Art Gallery Chorley, Lancashire PR7 1NP Blackburn Museum Blackburn BB1 7AJ Eureka! The Museum for Children Halifax, West Yorkshire HX1 2NE Gawthorpe Hall Burnley, Lancashire BB12 8UA Ribchester Roman Museum Ribchester, Preston PR3 3XS National Coal Mining Museum for England Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 4RH Museum of Rail Travel (owned by Vintage Carriages Trust) Haworth, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD22 8NJ Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston PR1 2PP Dewsbury Museum Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF13 2SG National Arts Education Archive Bretton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 4LG North West Sound Archive Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 1AZ Sudley House Liverpool L18 8BX