🐝 It's #WorldBeeDay! To celebrate, Art Fund are in the museum with us today as we spotlight the importance of pollinators to our ecosystem. And you can get involved wherever you are! Draw your favourite bee and add it to The Wild World #TheWildEscape 👉 thewildescape.org.uk

From behind the scenes in Entomology #NationalVolunteerWeek. The support given by all volunteers is helping us to better maintain and keep our entomological collections and increase their usefulness and value. A huge thank you to all! entomologymanchester.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/emb… Manchester Museum

Some species are already responding to changes in climate by leaving to find new habitats, other populations are shrinking as the seasonal availability of food falls out of rhythm with their life cycle. #ShowYourStripes

We’re starting conversations & building new stories around our objects from the Caribbean. This afternoon Njabulo Chipangura & Diana Arzuza McrMuseum Collection have been connecting our Living Cultures & Entomology collections with the stories of #Windrush. 👉 museum.manchester.ac.uk/collections/re…

Who is using our collection and what for? An A level Art student really inspired after a visit to the stores. Final project👏👏 *A: “insects arranged across multiple pages reflecting a journey from shadows and incomplete forms to the splendid variety of insect life!” 🪲🦋🦟🪳🪲

A great day to be out in Boz Country Park with City of Trees. Come on over and discover what's living in the meadows, woodlands and ponds

The rain couldn’t dampen Ardwick Climate Action Action Day yesterday. Alongside bulb planting and a whole host of family-friendly activities, we shared some of our insect and botany collections. It was really encouraging to see so many folk keen to take action on climate change.

Join the community of Black professionals in Natural History Museums for conversations and reflexions this week, blackinnhms.org/binhmsweek Oct 15 - Oct 21 / 2023: blackinnhms.org/2023-binhms-we… #BlackInNHMs #SciArt #BlackinNHMsLeadership #BlackinNHMsOutreach NatSCA Natural Sciences NMS Manchester Museum

Sharing the amazing and important contributions of Black people to the natural history, especially working in museums. Three more days of inspiring conversations, Join: #BlackinNHMs for the Black in Natural History Museums Week NatSCA @Mcrmanchester

New blog out today about how to start the process of decolonising natural history collections natsca.blog/2023/10/26/how…

In a story of research and remembrance, our former Curator of Entomology, Dr Dmitri Logunov has written a blog post on his description of a species of jumping spider which he named and dedicated to our dearly missed colleague, Claire Miles (1958-2023). entomologymanchester.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/fro…

Opportunities like this don't come along often... Now's your chance to work with the stars of Manchester Museum. We're on the lookout for a Curatorial Assistant to join the Vivarium team, looking after our amazing amphibians and remarkable reptiles. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

🚨🦀CRAB UPDATE 🦀🚨 After a wild journey he's finally back and with some good news... 🎉 WE'VE BEEN SHORTLISTED FOR MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 🎉 Art Fund #MuseumoftheYear

Wonderful 3rd "Metamorphosis" workshop with Curator of Entomology, Diana Arzuza Buelvas Manchester Museum, artist Tania Kovats Tania Kovats Oceans, Curator Mala Yamey MalaYamey Invisible Dust & MA students School of Arts, Languages and Culture Institute for Cultural Practices. Project WOW - Women of the World & Factory International: invisibledust.com/projects/unnat… #MOONMOTH

Lovely day at #WOWFestMcr Factory International. Mala & Alice Invisible Dust, Diana Manchester Museum, student Megan School of Arts, Languages and Culture. Celebrating collab & artist Tania Kovats' beautiful HUGE work #MOONMOTH responding to Maria Sibylla Marian & collection. #biodiversity #Entomology #insects #ecology

What kind of future do you want? Find hope in the face of the climate and biodiversity crisis at our new exhibition Wild, which opens on Wednesday. Lead curator Dr David Gelsthorpe explains the idea behind the exhibition and some of the stories you can expect to find within.

It's #VolunteersWeek & we have some of the best in Britain. Regulars to the museum will spot a few famous faces this week, like Sarah who does incredible work with our entomology collection... even though she's terrified of insects! 🪲 That's dedication, thank you Sarah.

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🌿 Born to rewild 🌿 For the next in our Wild Talks series, in collaboration with The University of Manchester, the focus is on @KneppWilding. We’ll be joined by charlie, co-owner of this incredible project that shows nature’s remarkable power to recover and flourish when given space.

The talk is free and we’re expecting high demand for tickets. So sign up for our newsletter via the link below for the best chance of securing your spot. You’ll be notified when tickets are available. museum.manchester.ac.uk/newsletter/