This year, for the first time The Manchester Museum has its own advent calendar that you can open everyday! I don’t want to give too much away, but there is a fantastic range of amazing objects from the museum’s collection behind the doors. Just click on the doors each day to reveal the object and [...]
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This is my last post before my Christmas break. Here’s the view from my office window to prove we have a slight dusting of snow. It has been a great year. We have opened the Manchester Gallery and the Darwin The Evolutionist exhibition as part of our Darwin festival. We have continued to run and [...]
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I thought you’d like to see some Christmas cards from our William Boyd Dawkins archive here at the museum. Some of them date back to 1875. William Boyd Dawkins (1837-1929) was Curator of Natural History at Manchester Musum from 1869 until he retired in 1908. He undertook pioneering work on early humans in Britain (especially [...]
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