Last month, we partnered w/ Donald Grant Manchester Collective on project about Scottish folk music. OMF string players learnt 2 beautiful folk tunes by ear and performed them with @dongrantscotland at @mcrmuseum - captured on 🎬 by Bryony Simcox. Here's a teaser for the full film 👀

⏰ There's still time to apply! But be quick, applications close as midnight tonight:
jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Come and celebrate Africa Day at the Museum.

This promises to be such a vibrant, fun-packed day, and a chance to connect with African culture and heritage.

Lovely spread in ⁦⁦Times Travel⁩ on great places to visit: “Britains most exciting museums” - all five finalists for ⁦Art Fund⁩ #MuseumOfTheYear 2024
Craven Museum ⁦Skipton Town Hall⁩ DCA⁩ ⁦Manchester Museum⁩ ⁦National Portrait Gallery⁩ ⁦Young V&A⁩

Excited to be joined by Anita Frost on Saturday for the launch of Green Bean’s Garden.

Get ready to go on a whole host of adventures with Green Bean as our Shop will be stocking a full range of products from this brilliant Manchester maker.

Anita will be joining us 11am-1pm.

It’s home time on a Friday…

It’s a bank holiday weekend…

Your local museum is shortlisted for museum of the year…

Could life get any better right now? Here’s what our staff thought about the nomination!

Art Fund #MuseumoftheYear

Thank you NCCPE colleagues for organising ace conference! Made new friends & shared Manchester Museum Young People in Museums highlights with global colleagues asking about participatory research & co-creation central to our ways of producing knowledge with communities for last 5 years!
#Engage2024

Partner with Pinc! Join the growing national group of Museums and Galleries, working with us on creative projects,cultural sector skills, Supported Internships and more! Watch for insight into the impact ⬇️Thank you Wendy Gallagher @mcrMuseum. [email protected] to discuss

🥂 Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for the #exhibition launch & #awards ceremony of the 2024 UK-China #International #Photography #Competition !📸

🤩 Thrilled to see so many friends, partners, contestants, and visitors coming together to celebrate our finalists.💕

📣 We're hiring!

We're looking for a Visitor Team Coordinator who will ensure our incredible Visitor Team Assistants are supported and our visitors continue to feel welcome and that they belong at Manchester Museum.

Find out more and apply 👉 jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

What museums are on the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 shortlist? Read more about the 5 finalists competing for the world's biggest museum prize! 🏆👇

thetimes.co.uk/article/0ec0cc…

Rumour has it that the story of the century will come to its conclusion at 9am tomorrow.

We’re hearing whispers the crab will be back, bringing big news with him.

So join us for a brew in the morning. There’ll be a free tea or coffee for the first 250 people.

🚨🦀 CRAB UPDATE 🦀🚨

With only one day before he's due back, we've had another shocking eyewitness in Margate from Europe's #1 Crab Museum!

Crab Museum

🚨🦀 CRAB UPDATE 🦀🚨

Is he back in Manchester? Has he been spotted at the Whitworth, Science and Industry Museum or MCR Art Gallery?

Or is any of this real? Are we all just prawns - I mean pawns in the crab matrix?

🚨🦀 CRAB UPDATE 🦀🚨

If you missed it, here’s that shocking eyewitness footage that was broadcast on national news last night.

🚨🦀 SPIDER CRAB UPDATE 🦀🚨

He's sent us some postcards from his holidays 🌴☀️🧉

Where do you think he should go next? 🤔

🚨🦀SPIDER CRAB UPDATE🦀🚨

Thank you to the nice people at the news for sending us this breaking story on the crab's whereabouts.

🚨🦀SPIDER CRAB UPDATE 🦀🚨

This shocking late night CCTV footage has been revealed of our crab doing bombs at the Aquatic Centre.

The search continues…