2024 55th Annual Pilkington Lecture by Esme Ward
2024 55th Annual Pilkington Lecture by Esme Ward
Thursday 31 October 2024
2024 55th Annual Pilkington Lecture by Esme Ward
2024 55th Annual Pilkington Lecture by Esme Ward
Thursday 31 October 2024
The story of change at Manchester Museum
The most inclusive, imaginative and caring museum you’ll ever visit?
Manchester Museum is one of the UK’s largest university museums. We are home to around 4.5 million objects across a wide range of collections including: Egypt and Sudan, Archaeology, Earth Sciences, Entomology, Archery, Botany, Living Cultures, Zoology, Numismatics, and the Vivarium.
Our outstanding collection of Egyptian and Sudanese objects – one of the largest in the UK – illustrates both everyday life and preparations for the afterlife.
The Vivarium is recognised worldwide for its conservation work. A recent success story, and a landmark moment in the museum’s history, was the captive breeding of the variable harlequin toad (also known as Atelopus varius).
We also care for a collection of around 100,000 fossils, including one of the most important collections of Ice Age animals in Europe, particularly from Creswell Crags, which has helped transform our understanding of climate change.
Not just mummies.......
Our world class collections are used in our exhibitions and displays to tell extraordinary stories and inspire curiosity and wonder. The unique objects, specimens and archives housed at the museum are also actively used for innovative research, teaching, outreach, public programmes, and to inspire art and creative projects. not just mummies..........
Esme has worked in museums and heritage as an educator and cultural leader for over 25 years, including at the V&A, National Trust, the Whitworth and now, Manchester Museum. She has also worked across sectors, notably health. She is Professor of Heritage Futures and for several years taught Museology.
She led the £15 million transformation of Manchester Museum, which reopened in February 2023. She wants to renew the creative and civic purpose of the university museum. She is currently leading work with others to develop, practice and policy on repatriation, ecological stewardship and building an ethics of care in museums.
She is Co-Chair of the University Museums Group and sits on the National Museum’s Directors’ Executive Council. She is a member of the Oxford Road Corridor Board and chairs the Culture on the Corridor group. She sits on the Research England Advisory Group (REAG) and Kew’s Wakehurst Advisory Committee. She is co-founder of the Creative Ageing Development Agency (CADA), founding Chair of the National Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance and a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme.
Further Details:
This is a free event
Booking has now closed for this event.
Booking
FoW members: Please book at www.friendsofthewhitworth.org.uk
Non-Members: Please email [email protected]
Date: 31 October 2024
Venue: Grand Hall, Whitworth Gallery, Oxford Rd, M15 6ER
Time: 6.00pm join us for a glass of wine
Lecture starts at 6.30pm
A Raffle will be held with great prizes to be won
There will be no charge for tickets, but donations to support the Friends of the Whitworth are always welcome (suggested donation £5)
The story of change at Manchester Museum
The most inclusive, imaginative and caring museum you’ll ever visit?
Manchester Museum is one of the UK’s largest university museums. We are home to around 4.5 million objects across a wide range of collections including: Egypt and Sudan, Archaeology, Earth Sciences, Entomology, Archery, Botany, Living Cultures, Zoology, Numismatics, and the Vivarium.
Our outstanding collection of Egyptian and Sudanese objects – one of the largest in the UK – illustrates both everyday life and preparations for the afterlife.
The Vivarium is recognised worldwide for its conservation work. A recent success story, and a landmark moment in the museum’s history, was the captive breeding of the variable harlequin toad (also known as Atelopus varius).
We also care for a collection of around 100,000 fossils, including one of the most important collections of Ice Age animals in Europe, particularly from Creswell Crags, which has helped transform our understanding of climate change.
Not just mummies.......
Our world class collections are used in our exhibitions and displays to tell extraordinary stories and inspire curiosity and wonder. The unique objects, specimens and archives housed at the museum are also actively used for innovative research, teaching, outreach, public programmes, and to inspire art and creative projects. not just mummies..........
Esme has worked in museums and heritage as an educator and cultural leader for over 25 years, including at the V&A, National Trust, the Whitworth and now, Manchester Museum. She has also worked across sectors, notably health. She is Professor of Heritage Futures and for several years taught Museology.
She led the £15 million transformation of Manchester Museum, which reopened in February 2023. She wants to renew the creative and civic purpose of the university museum. She is currently leading work with others to develop, practice and policy on repatriation, ecological stewardship and building an ethics of care in museums.
She is Co-Chair of the University Museums Group and sits on the National Museum’s Directors’ Executive Council. She is a member of the Oxford Road Corridor Board and chairs the Culture on the Corridor group. She sits on the Research England Advisory Group (REAG) and Kew’s Wakehurst Advisory Committee. She is co-founder of the Creative Ageing Development Agency (CADA), founding Chair of the National Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance and a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme.
Further Details:
This is a free event
Booking has now closed for this event.
Booking
FoW members: Please book at www.friendsofthewhitworth.org.uk
Non-Members: Please email [email protected]
Date: 31 October 2024
Venue: Grand Hall, Whitworth Gallery, Oxford Rd, M15 6ER
Time: 6.00pm join us for a glass of wine
Lecture starts at 6.30pm
A Raffle will be held with great prizes to be won
There will be no charge for tickets, but donations to support the Friends of the Whitworth are always welcome (suggested donation £5)
EVENT DATE
OCTOBER 31, 2024
COST
FREE
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Not specified/unlimited
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