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Below are some of the latest posts from the Manchester Museum blogs.
- Egyptology blog
- Lindow Man blog
- Myths About Race blog
- en-quire blog
- Palaeontology blog
- Frog Blog Manchester
- Learning blog
- Manchester Hermit blog
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Egypt at the Manchester Museum
- Soldiers, Sailors and Sandalmakers book launch, November 26th
The Egypt Exploration Society will be hosting a launch evening for my book, Soldiers, Sailors and Sandalmakers. A Social Reading of Ramesside Period Votive Stelae (Golden House Publications) on Thursday 26th November, 7-9pm. Copies of this and other Golden House Publications (http://www.goldenhp.co.uk/) will be available at a discounted price, with a short presentation on the book and [...]
Posted on 16 November 2009 | 12:16 pm - Curator’s diary, Friday 6th November 2009
I’m back in the office after two weeks in Egypt taking a lecture tour round all the major sites. The group of 22 people, myself and my wonderful guide, Hesham, visited the sites at Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel and in and around Cairo. It was very hot indeed, hitting 42 degrees at Abu Simbel, but [...]
Posted on 6 November 2009 | 4:27 pm - Big Saturday Oct 2009: Ancient Egyptian Technology
On Saturday 17th October, the Museum hosted an ancient Egyptian Big Saturday looking at technology, with everything from mummifying oranges to making faience and constructing a shaduf.
Posted on 5 November 2009 | 3:36 pm
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
Enquiremanchester's Weblog
- Drawing Inspiration 2009 with The Campaign for Drawing
The Big Draw came to Manchester Museum for adults last month. We used drawing to research, record and interpret the collections and explored the plant stores (or Herbarium) to make our own contemporary art work.
Posted on 12 November 2009 | 7:44 pm - The Darwin Drawing Studio
Throughout October half term we created a Darwin studio so we could used drawing to collect and record specimens from all around the museum and in both of our Darwin Extravaganza galleries. People drew like the illustrators of Darwin’s time (a bit like Stephen’s illustrated entomology book that you can see in the exhibition), made [...]
Posted on 12 November 2009 | 6:25 pm - Lots of lovely schools
Nearly half way through the term again and schools have been coming and making some show-stopping art work. So here’s the full unedited gallery from three of the sessions: To the Skeleton, Draw to Explore and an insect research session… Just a couple of weeks ago we went ‘To The Skeleton’ with Manchester Health Academy – [...]
Posted on 19 October 2009 | 3:41 pm
Palaeo Manchester Blog
- The Fishy treasures of Manchester Museum
I’ve been having a look at the fossil fish collection here at the museum in preparation for a visit by a researcher from Bristol University next week and I’d forgotten how amazing it is! Dr Phil Andreson is coming up to Manchester to give a talk on The War Between Tooth and Food: Integrating experimental and [...]
Posted on 19 November 2009 | 3:46 pm - PaleoManchester on Twitter and brand new museum blogs
PaleoManchester is now on Twitter! This gives you even more chance to catch up on what I’m up to each day. Either keep an eye on the right hand side of this blog or follow me on Twitter. The other exciting musuem web news is there two brand new museum blogs: Herbology Manchester: stories from the Manchester [...]
Posted on 12 November 2009 | 9:15 am - Ideas for the new mammals gallery
We have started doing some research into some of the themes we might use when we redevelop the mammals gallery here at the museum. It is a really exciting time for us, as we will get chance revamp the very popular displays. The new gallery is set to open in 2011 and will combine many of [...]
Posted on 9 November 2009 | 9:25 am
FROG BLOG MANCHESTER
- The past, now, this Saturday..
Today I am spending the day in the Costa Rican capital, San Jose. I have been to Costa Rica many times in the past and every time I visit it feels like home from home. The Costa Rican rainforest has its own special magic for me, but as I stroll the streets today, I absorb the [...]
Posted on 18 November 2009 | 6:32 pm - The Costa Rican Amphibian Research Centre
Last night I called in to visit my good friend Brian Kubicki in Guayacan during my trip back to San Jose. If you are familiar with the blog, you will probably already know how much respect I have for Brian and how I admire his outstanding committment to amphibian conservation. Brian has now established two reserves, both purely dedicated to conserving the rarest Costa [...]
Posted on 18 November 2009 | 3:54 am - Sloth Conservation in Costa Rica
Today I visited my old friends Judy and Luis Arroyo at Aviarios del Caribe, a wonderful rescue and research centre for injured and orphaned sloths on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica. Over the past 12 years or so I have seen the centre grow considerably and the important work they do increase on a [...]
Posted on 16 November 2009 | 2:19 am
The Learning Team, The Manchester Museum
- We thank the following Schools for visiting The Manchester Museum between 16th and 20th November 2009
Alma Park Primary Bankfoot Primary Beechill School Crablane Primary Delph Primary Halifax High Horton St Michael Hursthead Junior Ladybridge Primary Loreto High Lower Park Primary Mossfield Primary Old Trafford Community School Prospect Vale Primary Roseacre Primary Rosehill Primary Sedberg School Summerfield Primary St Dunstans Primary St Marys Primary St Patricks High Tyntesfield Primary Withington Girls School We hope all these Schools had a very enjoyable trip. If you were part of one of these visits, please feel [...]
Posted on 20 November 2009 | 5:58 pm - Myth Makers and Tall Tales!
Sometimes we get the sort of feedback from teachers that we just have to boast about and share. This was a recent comment from a teacher whose year 3 class had taken part in our half-day Tall Tales session: “The experience so fired the children’s imaginations that half a day was too short. It was like [...]
Posted on 18 November 2009 | 8:14 am - We thank the following schools for visiting The Manchester Museum between 9th and 13th November 2009
Batteyford Primary Bowlee Park Primary Bury College Divine Mersey Primary Feniscowles Primary Green Mount Primary Grosvenor Park Primary Heybrook Primary Lacy Green Primary Lisburne School Loreto High Midcheshire College Millview Primary Myers College Our Ladies Sports College Pendleton College St Edwards Primary St John’s Primary Stoke on Trent Primary Tyntesfield Primary Wellgreen Primary Wych Primary Whalley Range High We hope all these Schools had a very enjoyable trip. If you were part of one of these visits, please [...]
Posted on 13 November 2009 | 5:54 pm
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