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“We have a basket that’s 4,000 years old, but looks like you can buy it in B&Q.” Campbell Price, Egyptologist and curator at Manchester Museum
Museums may be closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but one Manchester-based academic has found a way to bring Egyptology to people in the comfort of their own homes.
Read the full story..Review: Manchester Museum, Extinction or Survival?
The first two objects in Manchester Museum’s new exhibition Extinction or Survival? are a model of a dodo and a stuffed panda. One is extinct, of course. And the other has been brought back from the brink of extinction, thanks to the efforts of conservationists across the globe.
Read the full story..Review: Kate Mosse, Manchester Literature Festival
I am sitting in the spectacular Living Worlds gallery in Manchester Museum. It is one of those cold autumnal nights where darkness is drawing in, winter coats have come out of hibernation and everything is a little bit eerie.
Read the full story..Froggy Fun at Manchester’s Vivarium (and vital conservation work to boot)
It’s a well-known fact that amphibians and reptiles are cold-blooded. But it wasn’t until I held a red-eyed leaf frog, stroked a python and tickled a chameleon that I realised the truth of that observation.
Read the full story..In the Vault of the Mummies at Manchester Museum
Some places imprint themselves upon your consciousness, that strange relatively inexplicable netherworld of neurons and dreams.
Read the full story..90 Degree Citizen at Manchester Museum
Beginning in the foyer and spreading towards the café at Manchester Museum is an exhibition of some significance.
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