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Egypt at the Manchester Museum

  • Experiment and Experience: Ancient Egypt in the Present
    May 10-12 2010 Faraday A , Swansea University Are you interested in ancient Egypt ? Are you interested in ancient technology or crafts? This is a conference where academics, craftspeople and the general public, in fact all those interested in ancient Egypt or in technology can meet and share their common enthusiasm. [...]
    Posted on 9 February 2010 | 2:06 pm
  • Curator’s Diary, Thursday 4th February 2010
    I have been getting on with some collections work in the last few days, in order to sort and pack groups of objects that are transferring from the general Archaeology collections into Egyptology. This material includes lamps dating from the Late Period to Islamic Egypt, terracottas, and lithics. This week I have worked on sorting [...]
    Posted on 4 February 2010 | 5:22 pm
  • Re-Writing Nefertiti: The History and Historiography of Egypt’s most Famous Queen
    Dr Joyce Tyldesley 3pm, Wednesday 10 February The Kanaris Lecture Theatre, The Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester Followed by refreshments No Charge, all wellcome, no need to book. For details email joyce.tyldesley@manchester.ac.uk For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age Mediterranean world. Suddenly she disappeared, vanishing as if [...]
    Posted on 18 January 2010 | 2:26 pm

Enquiremanchester's Weblog

  • Poems and Museums
    As part of our Magpie Speaking and Listening project for Secondary Schools we’re planning on including an element of poetry and wanted to link this with the museum visit.  A call out to Manchester Museum staff and members of Poets on Fire online forum for poem suggestions met with an over-whelming response.  Whilst we can’t [...]
    Posted on 8 December 2009 | 12:33 pm
  • MAGPIE – Secondary Schools Speaking and Listening
    Just had a great day planning a new speaking and listening project with Chorlton High School’s Caroline Morgan, Newall Green High School’s Louise Mills, artists Naomi Kendrick and Fiona Muir (from WFA Media and Cultural Centre), along with help from Stephen Welsh (curator of living cultures), Julie from Manchester City Council, and Louise, Cat and [...]
    Posted on 25 November 2009 | 4:46 pm
  • More Tree of Life
    Another great Tree of Life created last weekend… Inspired by Darwin’s voyage on HMS Beagle we collected animals from around the mammals gallery by drawing them and then added them to our own giant tree of life.
    Posted on 25 November 2009 | 4:34 pm

Palaeo Manchester Blog

  • Ginger dinosaurs and new glaciers!
    I thought I’d post a couple of geology stories that have caught my eye this week: Dinosaurs had ginger feathers Research has just been published in Nature showing that the bristles of this 125-million-year-old dinosaur were in fact ginger-coloured feathers. Manchester Scientists find new glaciers in Albania A team of scientists from Manchester University have found a group of [...]
    Posted on 28 January 2010 | 1:24 pm
  • Learning in Geosciences
    On Thursday, I went down to Birmingham for a conference about learning in geoscience. It was primarily aimed at undergraduate students. Many of the challenges are the same as those we experience when we run our geology A-level sessions: how much previous knowledge to expect, how to best explain things and different learning styles. The first [...]
    Posted on 22 January 2010 | 12:03 pm
  • Manchester Museum – a great focus for Life Long Learning
    Curators and collections staff make a massive contribution to life long learning here at the museum, be we don’t often tell people about it and the impact it has on people’s lives. We help the museum come alive for everyone from small children to older people. I regularly get asked what my job involves and what [...]
    Posted on 15 January 2010 | 11:03 am

FROG BLOG MANCHESTER

  • Filming with National Geographic
    The past month has been an extremely busy period, with a variety of projects underway. One of the things I am pleased to report is that our rainforest exhibit was    stripped out and has now been fully re-sealed. Although further work is required, including fitting a new floor and planting out, its great to know the exhibit will be complete and ready for the animals to go [...]
    Posted on 5 February 2010 | 2:55 pm
  • Winterkill
    Many thanks to Suzanne Grieve for sending the link regarding ‘winterkill’ and what to do to help frogs survive icy spells. Because many frogs hibernate at the bottom of ponds they are prone to dying when the ponds freeze over. With the recent weather changes we have experienced in England, and repeated thaws and freezing, it has [...]
    Posted on 5 February 2010 | 2:48 pm
  • Learning with lizards
    Our reptiles and amphibians have always been a magnet for school children and students, and the staff who look after them have contributed to teaching in many ways. Now that Andrew, Matt and Adam are officially members of the museum’s Learning Team, the Vivarium displays will be fully integrated into science programmes from Early Years [...]
    Posted on 29 January 2010 | 3:07 pm

The Learning Team, The Manchester Museum

  • Look Again
    If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll be aware that several members of the Learning Team have at different times worked with Ookls. I was recently asked to write an article for Arts Professional magazine about our experiences of working with Ookls, which I share below. (Apologies by the way, for the rather [...]
    Posted on 8 February 2010 | 11:58 am
  • We thank the following Schools for visiting The Manchester Museum between 1st and 5th February 2010
    Banks Lane Junior School Bradley Green Primary Breewood Middle School Broadstone Primary Grange Junior School Longley Park 6th Form New Moston Primary Park Row Primary Salford City College St Charles Primary St Marys Primary St James Primary St Saviours Primary St Thomas of Canterbury Primary The Manchester College William Hulme Grammar We hope all these Schools had a very enjoyable trip. If you were part of one of these visits, please [...]
    Posted on 5 February 2010 | 6:22 pm
  • KS2 Science Super Learning Days
    If you want to bring a large number of children (up to 100) and you are interested in exploring the Arctic habitat creatively using objects, why not consider one of our Arctic Super Learning Days. These jam-packed days involve a carousel of activities for your pupils including a visit to ‘nanoq: flat out and bluesome’ a [...]
    Posted on 3 February 2010 | 9:00 am

Herbology Manchester

  • Unusual Trees to Look Out for (1)
     Unusual Trees to Look Out for (1) Sciadopitys verticillata (Sciadopityaceae), Umbrella Pine 165/025 Sciadopitys is from two Greek roots, meaning (YES!) ‘umbrella’ and ‘pine’.  Verticillata means ‘whorled’.  A native tree of Japan, there called Koyamaki, it is said to be rare now. “The Koyamaki was chosen as the Japanese Imperial crest for Prince Hisahito of Akishino, [...]
    Posted on 9 February 2010 | 11:41 am
  • Violets are blue…
    Viola odorata or Sweet Violet is an evergreen, perennial, woodland plant which grows to about 10cm tall.  It is a pretty and useful little plant whose leaves and flowers are edible.  All parts of the plant have been used in traditional remedies where it was used to treat cancer and whooping cough.  Old [...]
    Posted on 8 February 2010 | 8:27 pm
  • Roses are red…
    As we are approaching February 14th I thought it would be nice to have some Valentine’s Day inspired posts. The obvious place to start is with the rose – the flower of love.  It is one of the most popular and oldest flowers known to man. The word rose has come from the Latin word rosa [...]
    Posted on 4 February 2010 | 1:26 pm

ManCultural

  • Return of the King
    For those that haven’t already seen the beautiful Ife head  in the Living Cultures gallery this weekend will be your last chance  before it is returned to the British Museum. It is a must see exhibtion so make sure you’re not too late! Stephen Terence Welsh Curator of  Living Cultures
    Posted on 4 February 2010 | 4:03 pm
  • To Wuhan and back again
    Last week I was able to travel to Wuhan, China, thanks to a generous grant from the British Council and support from Manchester City Council and the Manchester University Confucius Institute. The purpose of my trip was to develop links with Wuhan Museum and identify a potential loan for our forthcoming exhibition China: Journey to the East [...]
    Posted on 4 February 2010 | 3:43 pm
  • Objects on the move
    The Living Cultures collection has been in great demand over the past several weeks.  Most recently I’ve been preparing a loan of some of our Middle-Eastern metalwork, including  a large ceremonial axe and highly decorated vessel, for the forthcoming exhibition at Johh Rylands library called Heroes and Kings: The Shahnama of Ferdowsi.     Irit Narkiss, a conservator here at the Manchester [...]
    Posted on 21 January 2010 | 3:23 pm

Nature Manchester

  • Chameleon Diary
    CHAMELEON DIARY At about 10.30, on most days, I walk from the mineral store to the botany department, where there’s a possibility of tea and conversation. These locations are about as far apart as it is possible to be, and still remain in the museum. The complexity of the building is such that there are hundreds [...]
    Posted on 9 February 2010 | 2:14 pm
  • The Non-existence of the Unnamed
    A new exhibition entitled as ‘The Non-existence of the Unnamed’ is being open in Manchester on the 13th of February. It is of a series of original watercolopur drawings, in which three artists, Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican (collectively known as the Brass Art), unlock the Entomology collection at the Manchester Museum. The [...]
    Posted on 8 February 2010 | 2:51 pm
  • Why do museums have natural history collections?
    Natural history collections include specimens from the subject areas of zoology, botany, entomology, palaeontology and mineralogy as well as the documentation associated with them. Recent estimates suggest that the number of natural history specimens in UK museums exceeds 100 million. Worldwide, there are more than three billion! Large collections, like those of the Manchester Museum, [...]
    Posted on 8 February 2010 | 11:47 am

Conservation at The Manchester Museum

  • Mammal Gallery Redevelopment
    As those of you who have been following our Nature Manchester blog http://naturemanchester.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/pests/  will know, we are just about to start the process of redeveloping our Mammals Gallery.  We took our first step towards this last week when we emptied the Sea Mammals display case. This case was a very large display case, just like [...]
    Posted on 5 February 2010 | 2:55 pm
  • The Tiger in the Library
    Welcome to the Manchester Museum Conservation Blog. For our first post I thought that I would share some info on what  has been going on in conservation this week. One project of which has been the installation of a tiger into North City Library, as part of the Moston Steps project around evolution and Charles Darwin. [...]
    Posted on 22 January 2010 | 4:50 pm

AncientWorldManchester

  • A trip to see the designers in Amsterdam
    Just returned from a short visit to Amsterdam to meet Opera, the designers working on the Ancient Worlds displays at the Manchester Museum. Opera are helping us to develop the second stage of a Heritage Lottery Bid. Last  December Opera presented their initial ideas to develop the content of the Ancient Worlds galleries, which will open [...]
    Posted on 27 January 2010 | 11:03 am
  • Ancient Worlds Content Development
    Overview The broad overall theme of `Ancient Worlds’ is people in the past. We know from previous consultations that we need to present local and regional archaeology within a global framework that focuses on Egypt because that is a particular strength of the collections. We want to:- Bring the two disciplines of Egyptology and archaeology together Show archaeology [...]
    Posted on 27 November 2009 | 1:55 pm
  • Welcome to the Ancient World at The Manchester Museum!
    This blog has been set up to follow the progress of the project to redevelop the Archaeology and ancient Egypt galleries at the Manchester Museum, to transform them into innovative and dynamic galleries of the ancient world. Postings will be made by the museum director, curators, designers and other staff involved. Please let us know your thoughts [...]
    Posted on 26 June 2009 | 12:21 pm

Archived blogs

Lindow Manchester

  • Is a Care Bear Appropriate?
    Nearly 8 months after Lindow Man a Bog Body Mystery closed the Museum is still receiving comments about the exhibition. WE receive between 500 and 1000 visits to the Blog every month. This is an email received by Stephen Devine (New Media and Photographic Officer) from Jean N.: ‘I have just visited the Lindow Man web [...]
    Posted on 18 November 2009 | 2:12 pm
  • A Poem from the Lindow Man Offerings Box
    “Crumpled, folded, left lying for the peat Flesh becomes water, became earth Became stone in time. No hope of that now, leather man, stone Interrupted, Your journeys unexpected direction? To offer us questions It’s always questions, that’s what we have of you. Maybe questions are what we need No certainties, no mysteries finally revealed” “It’s spring outside now, The frogs have broken the hibernation dream And fill [...]
    Posted on 8 May 2009 | 4:36 pm
  • Lindow Man Visitor Figures
    As part of the work on evaluating the Lindow Man exhibition I rang Carole Knight, Project Administration Assistant at the Manchester Museum, to ask how many people visited. 133,413 people came to see Lindow Man.
    Posted on 5 May 2009 | 12:41 pm

The Manchester Museum Myths About Race Blog

  • Twenty per cent of British voters agree with BNP
    Twenty per cent of British voters agree with BNP 19 May 2009 New evidence has revealed that the extreme right in Britain is only realising a fraction of its electoral potential. Dr Rob Ford from The University of Manchester found widespread support for radical BNP proposals such as the re-imposition of the death penalty, a [...]
    Posted on 19 May 2009 | 9:17 am
  • Deepening tolerance makes British Obama ‘possible’ says Putnam
    The UK has the necessary preconditions for the emergence of a black prime minister according to a joint study by Harvard University and The University of Manchester. The project, to be published in book later this year co-authored by writer Tom Clark, is led by Harvard’s Professor Robert Putnam, the author of the best-selling Bowling [...]
    Posted on 26 March 2009 | 11:13 am
  • ‘Myths’ threaten racial harmony, say population experts
    Using previously unpublished evidence, Professor Ludi Simpson and Dr Nissa Finney from The University of Manchester show how repeated falsehoods about immigration, integration and segregation are misguiding policy and promoting racial disharmony. This is the basis of the authors’ new book ‘Sleepwalking to segregation? Challenging myths about race and migration’ published today by The Policy Press. After [...]
    Posted on 22 January 2009 | 11:01 am

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