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Museums at Night: Lost & Found on 16-18 May

08 May 2013

With Richard Wentworth leading proceedings (thanks to everyone who voted), the city’s museums and galleries are staging a series of evening events that celebrate the depth and diversity, the weirdness and the wonderfulness of the things that people are compelled to collect.

Lost & Found

Thursday 16 May (5-9pm)
After Hours: Nature’s Library

 

Manchester Museum
Drop-in, free

  • 5-9pm: Build a cabinet of curiosities.
    Donate your own object at special collections booths set up at Manchester Museum and Manchester Art Gallery; it will be given an acquisition number and used the following night at Whitworth Art Gallery by the artist Richard Wentworth. Your object won’t be returned, so it has to be something you’re willing to part with (or leave a photograph or representation of it instead). The Museum and Gallery are particularly interested in curious, strange and unusual objects, as well as things that you think should be in a museum but perhaps aren’t. If you'd like to share your object as part of #lovecollecting, just Tweet or Instagram an image of an object that you own, collect or that you’ve seen in a museum or gallery using the hashtag #lovecollecting and @MuseumsatNight. Tell us what the object is, where it is and why you like it (we’ve put a couple of examples up - find them using the #lovecollecting hashtag). The best will be collated onto a Pinterest board, and two of those will win tickets to take a mystery bus tour below.
      
  • 5.30, 6.30 & 7.30pm: Richard Wentworth’s mystery bus tour of Manchester.
    Free bus tours run between Manchester Museum and Manchester Art Gallery and follow a circuitous route devised by the artist Richard Wentworth. Buses leave from both venues at 5.30pm, 6.30pm and 7.30pm, are free and available on a first come, first served basis – just wait at the special bus stops outside both institutions.
      
  • 6.30-9pm: Drop in activities with Jade Mellor, Jewellery Designer.
      
  • 7pm: Manchester Minute Microlectures (M-Cubed).
      
  • 7.30pm: Exhibition tour of All Other Things Being Equal by Johan Oldekop.

You can also meet our ornithologists and birds and view work curated by students from Stockport College. You can find out about local nature through our Nature and Me and Grey to Green projects and see a jewellery display by Jade Mellor, inspired by the Museum’s collection.

Thursday 16 May (5-9pm)
Thursday Lates

 

Manchester Art Gallery
Drop-in, free

As well as the Cabinet of Curiosities and mystery bus tours mentioned above, Manchester Art Gallery will run another edition of its hugely popular Manchester Lates series, which involves music, performance and its galleries, shop and café open until late into the evening.

Friday 17 May (7.30-10.30pm)
After Hours: An exhibition in a night with Richard Wentworth

 

Whitworth Art Gallery
Drop-in, free

On Friday 17 May, Richard Wentworth, The Manchester International Festival artist, uses the objects donated the previous night to curate an exhibition in a night at Whitworth Art Gallery. Watch one of Britain’s most successful artists at work; see how he uses the raw materials you supplied to create something entirely new. The exhibition is part of After Hours at the Whitworth. In a continuation of its successful late night series of openings, expect live performance, art and music.

Further information

For full details of Museums at Night: Lost & Found (including extra events on Saturday, 18 May), visit: