The Manchester Museum has launched a fantastic new website called: The interactive website helps you answer some of the most important questions on earth such as: Why do animals and plants need each other? What happened to the dinosaurs? What helps species survive? I know I am biased, but obviously the best bit is the [...]
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One of my favorite cases on the new Living Worlds gallery here at the Manchester Museum is about collecting. One of the main things we wanted to do on the gallery was put people at the heart of nature. Lots of people’s most memorable experience of nature (including myself) is going out into our countryside [...]
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I’m delighted to say the Living Worlds Gallery here at The Manchester Museum is now open to the public! We had an amazing launch party last night with Deadly 60′s Steve Backshall on hand to help open the gallery. We have tried to do something very different in the new gallery, which hopefully you will [...]
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