Hidden Treasures

Date: August 22nd / 23rd / 27th

Booking details: all events are free, drop-in events so booking is not necessary, but email museum@manchester.ac.uk or telephone 0161 275 2648 for further details

Special conditions / access information:
Ask at Museum reception desk for venue

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Hidden Treasures: Rock Drop: Geology identification sessions
Thursday 22 August, 2-3pm
Drop-in, free, Collections Study Centre (Floor 3), all ages
Our Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, will be in the Collections Study Centre once a month to answer your questions and identify your rocks and fossils.

Hidden Treasures: Nature’s library mini museums
Thursday 22 August-Tuesday 27 August, 11am-4pm:
Drop-in, free, all ages
Drop-in family workshop to make your own mini museum, inspired by our Nature’s Library gallery.

Hidden Treasures: Hidden Herbarium
Thursday 22 August, 1-2pm
Drop-in, free, all ages
Join our Botany Curator, Rachel Webster, as she delves into a little explored plant collection from 19th century naturalist John Eddowes Bowman.

Hidden Treasures: New to the Museum
Thursday 22, Friday 23 & Thursday 27 August, 2-3pm
Drop-in, free, all ages
Museum experts will talk about newly aquired objects.
Thursday 22 August: With Curator of Egypt and Sudan, Campbell Price, talking about a Shabti of a priest-king Pinudjem II.
Friday 23 August: With trainee Curator of Egypt and Sudan, Anna Garnett, talking about blue painted Egyptian pottery.
Tuesday 27 August: With Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, talking about our Ichthyosaur fossil.

Hidden Treasures: Conservation on show
Friday 23 August, 1-2pm
Drop-in, free, all ages
Meet the Museum’s conservation team and find out about their work – cleaning objects and helping to restore a cast of a pre-dynastic hippo bowl.

Hidden Treasures: Conservation in action
Tuesday 27 August, 1-2pm
Drop-in, free, all ages
Meet the Museum’s conservation team and find out about their work – cleaning and caring for taxidermy specimens new and old.