The exhibition is free, with a recommended donation of £5.
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Last admissions are 30 minutes before the museum closes.
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Visit Wild as part of your booked visit.
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Alongside our exhibition, we have an exciting Wild Events programme.
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Wild is an exhibition for everyone.
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Find out more about Wild and what to expect when you visit our new exhibition.
Will going ‘wild’ help us to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis?
Wild explores our relationship with the natural world and looks at how people across the globe are creating, rebuilding and repairing connections with nature.
What fuels our fear of dangers that lurk in the wild? Can ‘wildness’ flourish within a city’s concrete jungle? How do we care for things we can’t see?
Wild will challenge the way we think about nature, taking you to Wild Places across the world to hear a diverse range of voices, from Aboriginal elders to researchers and community activists. Find out how they’re shaping their environments and looking to wild for a more positive future.
Featuring an immersive installation, audio, film and interactive elements, alongside natural history collections and artworks, the exhibition prompts you to notice the biodiversity and heritage of the featured environments while questioning our relationship with the natural world.
Wild also explores how the natural world has traditionally been presented and idealised through Western art, from pastoral scenes to epic landscapes, and representations in popular culture, from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows to CBeebies’ Octonauts.
The complete text from the exhibition is available for visitors to use while in the exhibition space, in both large print and OpenDyslexic font.
Wild includes several elements that are accessible by touch. Find out more about ‘Digital Touch‘ at Manchester Museum.
Wheelchair accessibility is at the heart of the exhibition’s design. Beyond access to all spaces, this also includes the placement of all text and labels.
In order to help you plan for your visit. Find out what to expect before you arrive.
We’ve listened to advocates with lived experience and inclusive features can be found across the building. Find out more:
You can find information on all our exhibitions and events here.
Our bold new exhibition, opening on 5 June 2024, looks at how we can go ‘wild’ to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis.
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