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Curatorial Assistants taking you behind the scenes at Manchester Museum. Tweets from Rachel Petts, Susan Martin and Diana Arzuza Buelvas.
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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…
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
Die-in by Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 happening now Manchester Museum highlighting extinction, ecological breakdown and the State of Nature report. Moving and powerful.
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…
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
New Manchester Museum exhibition WILD coming soon (5 June) - exploring our relationship with the natural world and how people across the globe are creating, rebuilding and repairing connections with nature. museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/wild/
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.
🌿 Born to rewild 🌿 For the next in our Wild Talks series, in collaboration with The University of Manchester, the focus is on Knepp Wilding. 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.