🌟🌸 WE Cultural Adventure: Visit to the Manchester Museum 🌸🌟

🌟 Radiant Members - Free to attend and no deposit required 🌟
🌸 Blossom Members and Non Members - £2.50 attendance fee and £2.50 non refundable admin fee (Financial Assistance Available) 🌸

"Empowered Women Empower Women", our motto at Women Empowered MCR for 5 years!

Join us for our visit to the Manchester Museum and step into a 130-year-old museum reimagined for today. Manchester Museum isn’t just about the past—it’s about people, purpose, and progress. We will explore powerful stories like those in the South Asia Gallery, co-created with 30 community members, and reflect on what it means to belong. See rare natural history collections, including live amphibians—and the critically endangered harlequin toad, found here outside Panama.

The museum has been transformed through a values-led redevelopment, with space for prayer, quiet reflection, and community connection. It’s also confronting its colonial roots, actively working on repatriation and centring Global Majority, diaspora, and Indigenous voices.

This visit is a chance to learn, pause, and be part of a conversation about who museums are for—and who gets to shape them.
During our visit, we will:

• Take a focused walkthrough of the South Asia Gallery and other key spaces with context on their community-led curation
• See live species, including the rare harlequin toad, and learn how the museum supports conservation
• Reflect on themes of identity, resilience, and belonging in spaces designed for pause and presence
• Observe how values like equity, access, and accountability are built into the museum’s design and mission
• Connect as a group—sharing what resonates, over some lunch or tea and coffee in the museum café, deepening our understanding and maybe spark creativity!

This is a wonderful opportunity to explore the museum together, meet new people and make new friends too 🤝 😊

Details
Venue:
Manchester Museum
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
You can find out more about the museum including directions on the Museum website here.

Timings:
11am to 3pm, Saturday 21st March.
We will meet at the museum entrance at 11am.

Cost
Radiant Members - No payment required. Please book for this event on our website.

Blossom Members and Non Members - Please book here on Meetup. The attendance fee is £5 per person which includes £2.50 non-refundable PayPal/Admin fees. The attendance fee is to help us manage event attendance and reduce no shows to allow space for others to attend. We thank you for your understanding.

To find out more about becoming a Radiant Member please visit our website.

Financial Assistance
We aim to be inclusive and provide opportunity for growth and empowerment to all irrespective of financial status. Therefore, if you have financial difficulty and need funding to attend, please email us at finance@womenempoweredmcr.org and we may be able to provide funding for you to attend this event without an admin charge. Funding will not cover the cost of any food and drinks. you may choose to purchase. It would only cover the admin fee.

Refund Policy
The £2.50 admin fee is non-refundable. Refunds for the attendance fee will be decided on a case by case basis. Please get in touch if you are unable to attend. We always welcome substitutes. If you can't make it, why not resell or gift your place to someone else?

Friendly Reminders
All of our events and platforms are a safe space for women. This means:

• We do not judge. We respect other women. We understand that each of us is unique and different, and we avoid gossip about other women;
• We are kind towards other women. We address each other in a loving and kind manner.
• We support other women. We are present for other women in any way we are able.
• We keep matters confidential and private. We respect each other’s privacy and do not take personal information out of events and platforms.

Please Note: This event is for women only.

For queries about the event please email events@womenempoweredmcr.org

We hope you can join us for an enjoyable and fascinating experience in one of Manchester's most iconic institutions 🙂 ❤️