the university of manchester annual

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2015
THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW 2015
THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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SWOT ANALYSIS
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PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM STRATEGIC PLAN
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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:
- PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT
- MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
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RISK STATEMENT - inserted
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COMPLIANCE STATEMENT
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STAFF SURVEY RESULTS AND ACTION PLAN
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APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Esteem Measures
Appendix 2: Visitor Statistics for HEFCE
Appendix 3: Publications by Museum staff - inserted
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INTRODUCTION
General
The Museum’s performance continues to improve year on year. Visitor numbers were yet again at an all-time high at 442,000, and
number of contacts with priority groups went up by nearly 11%. Visits by disabled people went up 2% as did visits by lower socioeconomic groups. BME visits, however, went down by 7% from the previous high of 18% for reasons that are currently not clear. In
terms of families, we have had a record-breaking year, with more visiting than ever before. 92,264 visitors participated in 233 family
events (23,618 under 5’s, 44,674 5 -15 year olds, 1,341 16-19 year olds, 22,631 adults). In terms of schools, we aim to maintain school
visits at around 30,000 in order to manage numbers and maintain quality. The Cultural Access Programme had another successful year,
offering all Year 5 children in 16 local primary schools one free visit (with coaches paid for) to one of the University’s cultural institutions.
636 pupils have participated at the Museum. 4620 adults participated in 142 dedicated adult events and in addition 20,333 adults
participated in family events such as Big Saturdays and Magic Carpet.
We held two main temporary exhibitions over the course of the year, both of which strongly featured University research. ‘Siberia: At The
Edge Of The World’ aimed to challenge some of the preconceptions about this region, which is larger than western Europe, and ‘Making
Monuments on Rapa Nui: The Statues of Easter Island’ explored findings of the latest fieldwork on the island led by Prof Colin Richards.
The Museum was awarded the annual Lever Prize by the North West Business Leadership Team for its ‘Real Life Science’ programme.
This provided £10,000 to support a Sustainability Summer School for 6th formers across the North West, and provided the opportunity for
the Museum to engage with some of the region’s leading businesses in ways that are leading to some longer term partnerships.
In May 2015 the Museum’s Science Spectacular event in partnership with NOWGEN, Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Engineering
and Physical Sciences and the Directorate for the Student Experience won a special Social Responsibility Award for Sustained
Contribution to Public Engagement.
The main capital project for the year was to work on ‘The Study, a £750,000 redevelopment of the 774m2 3rd floor public space. Plans
were developed for this to be transformed into a unique research space for all visitors, from academics and students to members of the
public. It encompass three separate areas – an improved temporary exhibitions space which uses the Museum’s collections to
showcase cutting edge University research; a new Visitor Research space, which provides visitors with the opportunity to do their own
research using the Museum’s collections; and an expanded Collections Study Centre, offering much improved facilities for in-depth
collections research. ‘The Study’ opened on Sept 11 2015.
Work also continued on the Museum’s most significant capital project for over 15 years, which is to provide a 500 m2 space for
temporary exhibitions so that we can participate in the national and international touring circuit, and showcase University research to a
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much wider audience, and to develop a permanent gallery on the history and culture of South Asia, along with a new entrance to make
the Museum more accessible from Oxford Rd. The South Asia gallery was proposed by the Government in April, with a commitment to
support it financially. At the time of writing, £5 million has been submitted by DCMS to Treasury as part of the CSR for this element. The
total project cost stands at £11.47 million, with the balance to be found from the Museum’s endowment, a large bid to Heritage Lottery
Fund, and from trusts and foundations.
The primary learning programme was awarded £25,000 from the Zochonis Charitable Trust to develop a Primary Schools outreach
scheme to allow us to increase the Museum’s reach to non-visiting schools. Plans for this programme include the development of an
‘inflatable museum’, which allows us to better recreate the unique learning environment of the Museum within a school. Sessions will
feature real museum objects and be piloted in October 2015.
Wonderstruck, an artist-led participatory choral project commissioned jointly with innovative UK arts charity, People United, was a
highlight of the lifelong learning programme. Working with artists, over 100 people participated in the newly written performance pieces
across the Museum. All ages were represented with singers from community choirs, Golden Voices (Manchester Age Friendly Choir)
performing with primary school students from the Network Choir, Ordsall Acappellas and She Choir. The Museum also created a choir
for the project, including participants from Streetwise Opera. Throughout the Wonderstruck weekend, over 1,000 visitors encountered
choirs across the museum.
Documentation work, largely supported by volunteers and students, has added 16,000 computer records to our database, Ke Emu. A
total of 647,527 searchable online records now cover 99% of the collection.
The Museum loaned a total of 909 specimens and objects in the year under review in 22 loans. Research loans were made to Vietnam,
Moscow, Novosibirsk, Museum of Tropical Queensland (Australia), Czech Republic, Hiroshima University and Senckenberg.
Social Responsibility
The Museum’s work with older people is now acknowledged as sector-leading. Using the Museum Comes to You outreach programme
we continue to work with community organisations such as Age UK and Alzheimer’s Society support groups, Junction 17 and the
Gardener young person secure mental health units, connecting with people at risk of social isolation through their support networks.
This has allowed the museum to connect with over 3,163 adults and young people. We are developing further our work with people with
dementia, drawing upon the significant expertise within the University. We received a commission from CMFT to develop Forget-menot, are a series of Montessori-based resources and activities linked to collections for dementia patients. We have developed new
partnerships with the Manchester Carers Forum, a support network for older adults who are carers, visiting their group meetings in North
Manchester, Salford and Hulme. As part our targeted outreach work over the summer we visited the Wythenshawe Games age friendly
day and a Grand Day out group who target older adults at risk of exclusion. We continue to offer tours and supported visits to
organisations with wider reach such as Henshaws Society for Blind People, supporting 40 of their service users to access our
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collections, and the University of the Third Age. We also continue to work with Age UK visiting their social groups in Openshaw, Moston
and Gorton.
Our commitment to volunteering has continued to grow during 2014-15, offering a diverse range of opportunities to a total of 245
volunteers who have contributed 11,347 volunteer hours (total value of £136,164). We were particularly pleased that our number of
student volunteers increased by 77% to 84 following a concerted recruitment drive. Manchester Museum remains at the centre of
citywide volunteer developments, leading the Cultural Volunteer Coordinators Forum, a network dedicated to cultural and heritage
volunteering which has representation from 16 different Museums and Galleries. This year the group has centralised the way cultural
volunteer opportunities are promoted as well as hosted a Volunteer Celebration for volunteer and staff from across the city during
Volunteers Week.
if: Volunteering for wellbeing, the HLF-funded socially-engaged volunteering project, is now in its third year. To date, Manchester
Museum has recruited 75 volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds who have taken part in a 16-week volunteering programme
alongside a heritage training course. Evaluation from year one and two provides significant evidence which demonstrates that museums
and galleries can be highly effective settings for addressing social needs and supporting essential services to unlock improvements in
public health and wellbeing. Key findings from across the partnership were that 85% of the volunteers were initially in receipt of a benefit.
86% reported a significant increase in wellbeing following the programme, and 28 people gained employment. The project was highly
commended as an ‘outstanding local community collaboration’ at this year’s Making a Difference Awards for Social Responsibility and
was shortlisted at the Spirit of Manchester Awards (Partnership Project).
At the other end of the age range, the Vivarium team have developed Scales and Tails sessions, specifically focused to provide one to
one engagement with the animals for children with learning difficulties and health related problems. Children with special needs from
local schools taught this year include those from St Peter’s High School (children with autism), Park Lane Special School and Peak
School (children with learning difficulties).
In November 2014 we expanded our core programme of family activities to include two early openings per month, one for 0-5’s (early
risers) and their older siblings and parents/carers and an Autism Friendly early opening, as families with an autistic child prefer to access
the Museum at quieter times. The latter have gone particularly well, with the most recent opening receiving 233 visitors. We have been
working closely with the National Autistic Society to develop and promote our Autism Friendly sessions and provide Autism Awareness
sessions for staff members at the Museum.
Teaching & Learning
This year, the number of modules making use of the Museum went up again (by 9%) to 165. Of these, 117 were in the University of
Manchester, despite the Collections Study Centre being out of commission for most of the year while it was being redeveloped as part of
The Study. The number of students involved in research and teaching activities increased by 4% to 7,074 students. This has been
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achieved through a targeted and concerted effort to enhance teaching use by areas of the University that are a natural fit with the
Museum’s subject areas. Links with FLS, SEAES (notably Earth Sciences), Museum Studies/ICP, Archaeology and Anthropology have
always been strong, and in recent years we have worked to increase teaching use for History and other subject areas in SALC, and with
SEED. We are working to develop strong relationships with the new Global Development Institute and will similarly work to support the
newly shaped faculties and schools.
We have been working with the Directorate of the Student Experience to get Museum volunteering opportunities listed as eligible for
students’ HEAR reports, with this work being undertaken by Volunteer Co-ordinator Kate Glynn. Henry McGhie and Amanda Bamford
have developed a ‘Student Curator’ scheme, to be launched in the present year. This involves students attending weekend seminarstyle sessions on practical museum skills, and aims to consolidate student volunteering based around museum collections into a more
co-ordinated scheme.
500 students engaged with Manchester Museum's stand at "The Start of Year Fair" and 800 students came to "Night at the Museum",
both part of Welcome Week. Our Student Engagement Coordinator, Naomi Kashiwagi, together with our Volunteer Coordinator Kate
Glynn, recruited a team of 14 Student Consultants to work with on The Study, with a particular focus on The Study Student Volunteer
role. Weekly consultation sessions included discussing volunteer role development, including social media overview, The Study activity
trial and the Study Student Launch.
Research
Head of Collections Henry McGhie has analysed the REF2014 in terms of the Museum’s contribution towards Impact Templates,
Environment Templates and Impact Case Studies. The Museum featured in more Impact Case Studies (17) than any other UK university
museum (more than Oxford or Cambridge museums), and more than any museum except the NHM, BM, V&A and Science Museum,
which are all much larger, and London-based. It featured in more Impact Case Studies than the National Museums of Wales and
Scotland, and more than any other Manchester cultural venue (eg. MOSI had 8 Impact Case Studies). He has provided a summary of
the Museum’s place in REF2014 to Impact Co-ordinators. The Museum was cited in the Environment Templates for 9 units of
assessment: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Biological Sciences; Mathematics; Archaeology; Anthropology; English
Language and Literature; History; Classics; Art and Design- History, Practice and Theory; Clinical Medicine; Archaeology; Sociology;
English Language and Literature; History; Classics; Philosophy; Art and Design- History, Practice and Theory.
We have produced a digest of publications that have drawn on the Museum collection, exhibitions and practices during 2004–14
(Appendix 3), to understand which areas are used most extensively, and where there are opportunities for further development. This
shows that the Museum has featured in around 700 publications (books, chapters, journal articles), or approximately 70 per year.
The number of research activities drawing on collections rose by 5% to 3,635, with many including student research projects.
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International interactions
This year has seen good progress on developing our international interactions. Nick Merriman has joined the University’s USA, India and
China strategy groups, and has produced a paper for the USA group outlining how the cultural institutions can contribute to the strategy.
He has also been invited to join the Greater Manchester India Strategy group, so that a cultural component to the strategy can be
formulated.
India has been a particular focus of work in preparation for the South Asia gallery, and for a Manchester-wide programme in 2017
commemorating the 70th anniversary of Partition. Nick Merriman visited India in December 2014 to scope potential partners, and codeveloped a successful bid to the British Council/Arts Council Re-Imagine India fund for research and development around 2017.
Nick was also involved in the Manchester-wide group preparing for the opening of the British Consulate in Wuhan, China, in which
Manchester played a major role. We anticipate developing partnerships with museums in Wuhan as part of this relationship.
Looking forward
In 2015-16 we will see the opening of ‘The Study’ and the submission of our major capital bid to HLF for the expansion of our facilities
into the courtyard. Our major autumn exhibition is ‘Gifts For The Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed’, which showcases the Leverhulmefunded research on scanning of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies by two researchers in FLS, Lidija McKnight and Stephanie AllertonWoolham.
In 2016 our major contribution to European City Of Science is an exhibition and associated programme called ‘Climate Control’, which
will engage the public with University research and debate around climate change, and the need to take action.
Our major concern in 2015-15 is the future of HEFCE’s dedicated funding for university museums and galleries. The Museum receives
over £1.3 million from this fund (the second largest grant after the Ashmolean), and it is our largest single source of funding. We note
that the Higher Education Green Paper proposes the breakup of HEFCE and the creation of a new higher education body. We would
wish the University to lobby hard to ensure that appropriate arrangements are made for university museums and galleries, and that this
resource continues to be protected as far as possible.
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Issues & actions identified in last year’s report:
Integration in University Processes
a) To liaise with the Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Associate Vice-President Social Responsibility to ensure
the public-facing aspects of the University are included in consultation and decision-making as appropriate.
The Directors of the Manchester Museum and the Whitworth meet regularly with the Deputy President, and the Director of the
Museum sits on the Social Responsibility Operations Group and Governance Group to ensure this takes place
Internationalisation
b) To liaise with the Director of Student Recruitment and International Development about representation on the relevant Strategy
Groups (including the China Strategy Group, the India Strategy Group, the USA Strategy Group, and the Internationalisation
Strategy Group.
The Director of the Museum now sits on the strategy groups for China, India and the USA.
City-University Relationship
c) To liaise with the Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor about the possibility of developing an action plan for the
University to lead on brokering a partnership between the three universities (UoM, Salford and Manchester Metropolitan) to
collaborate on creative courses and career opportunities for young people.
No progress was made on this from the Museum side.
Employability
d) To liaise with the Vice-President Teaching, Learning and Students about capacity for internships and placements.
Head of Collections Henry McGhie met with Clive Agnew to discuss ways in which the Museum can effectively support a
distinctive student experience. As a direct result, we have been working with DSE to get Museum volunteering opportunities listed
as eligible for students’ HEAR report, with this work being undertaken by Volunteer Co-ordinator Kate Glynn. Henry McGhie and
Amanda Bamford have developed a ‘Student Curator’ scheme, to be launched in the present year. This involves students
attending weekend seminar-style sessions on practical museum skills, and aims to consolidate student volunteering based
around museum collections into a more co-ordinated scheme.
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Academic Engagement
e) To discuss the development of an academic engagement strategy with the Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Students.
See above
The following action was carried over from the APR 2013, to be reported in the 2015 APR:
High International Standing
f) To provide an update about the development of the peer review process to the 2014 APR, including an estimate of the
resource required.
The delay of the re-opening of the Whitworth to Feb 2015 has delayed the introduction of a peer review. Plans have been
developed along lines previously discussed: a group of up to five experts in university museum/gallery work will be invited (from the
UK and overseas) to spend a few days at the Museum and the Whitworth reviewing programmes, activities and plans, talking to
staff and stakeholders, and examining information on performance. A report will be produced which will assess the two institutions
against their knowledge of the best practice worldwide. Costs have been calculated as £14,500, plus the time spent by staff in
preparing. Agreement needs to be reached as to where this resource will be sourced.
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SWOT Analysis
The Manchester Museum
Strengths
Weaknesses
Ø High level of performance from staff, resulting in continuing excellent improvements in
engagement, research and teaching
Ø University and HEFCE funding continues to leverage significant additional funding from
public sources, trusts & foundations, and from commercial activities.
Ø Well trained and committed staff and excellent collections in a listed building
Ø The two key foci on intercultural understanding and promoting sustainability enable
clear linkage to university, city-region and national priorities
Ø A large and dedicated audience, many of whom come from the local area, and can act
as advocates for the University
Ø Excellence in now being recognized by regional and national awards (eg Lever Prize,
Government funding for new gallery)
Opportunities
Ø Much achievement is dependent on
project funding
Ø Building infrastructure needs constant
maintenance
Ø The Museum can play in increasingly central role in the Social Responsibility agenda
Ø Strength of partnership with other cultural institutions in city region means greater
impact across a wider area; University Cultural Institutions are working more closely
together
Ø Emphasis on tackling issues such as biodiversity, volunteering, sense of place and
worklessness represents an opportunity to work towards greater links with City Council
objectives
Ø The exhibition programme can increasingly demonstrate the impact of university
research
Ø Development of international partnerships opens up new opportunities to develop our
work and contribute to University international priorities
Ø Significant concern about future of core
funding from HEFCE: over £1.3 million
is under threat: a third of our total
budget.
Ø Increase in risks, from thefts to child
protection means we must maintain or
increase vigilance
Threats
Actions to be taken in mitigation of weaknesses and threats:
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Maintain successful approach to project fundraising, bolstered by new Partnership arrangements
Advocate to colleagues the particular needs of the University’s public-facing cultural institutions
Continue advocacy for core funding from HEFCE, Arts Council, University and other funders (see Risk Register)
Continuously monitor risks and take mitigating actions at Joint Leadership Team and Health & Safety Committee
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PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM STRATEGIC PLAN
1 Create a great visitor experience through excellent services and innovative programmes
Exhibitions
Siberia: At the Edge of the World 4 October 2014 – 1 March 2015
Manchester Museum’s exhibition ‘Siberia: At the Edge of the World’ combined stunning artefacts with rare objects and photographs.
This was the first UK show dedicated to the subject of Siberia, and revealed a surprisingly rich and varied picture of this vast, diverse
and little known territory. The exhibition featured the work of University of Manchester academics and included works from major
museums in the UK and Russia, alongside those from Manchester Museum’s collection. The Museum acquired a taxidermied Siberian
Brown Bear and some extremely rare Siberian birds, which form a lasting legacy of the project.
Making Monuments on Rapa Nui The Statues of Easter Island 31 March 2015 – 6 September 2015
Manchester Museum’s exhibition ‘Making Monuments’ brought together Moai Hava (one of only 6 or 7 complete statues outside Easter
Island or Rapa Nui) with the results of the latest research undertaken by Prof. Colin Richards (an archaeologist in SALC) and a British
team of archaeologists. The exhibition included loans from a number of museums in the UK to supplement Easter Island objects from
the Museum’s own collection. In its first month the exhibition received 30,000 visitors and was seen by an estimated 150,000 visitors in
total.
Romuald Hazoumè: Flight of the Butterflies 14 February 2015-December 2015
‘Flight of the Butterflies’ was a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists, Romuald Hazoumè. The work
consisted of large panels with swarms of textile ‘butterflies’ in the Museum’s popular Living Worlds gallery. Hazoumè, whose work was
featured in ‘We Face Forward’ (2012) produced this work especially for Manchester Museum, as an African perspective on politics,
exploitation and the butterfly effect. Hazoumè asked the Museum to give away the butterflies from six panels on Election Day, as an
opportunity for visitors to own a piece of contemporary art from a leading West African artist, and to engage in the political process by
committing to do “something” to engage with politics, either by voting, joining a campaign, debating or some other political act.
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Manchester International Festival July 2015
The Herbarium (where the botany collections are kept) was transformed for psychedelic ‘High Tea in Wonderland’ events as part of the
Manchester International Festival, and dressed with botany and zoology specimens and props to connect with the wonder.land MIF
show. 511 guests attended the performances (100% capacity), which took place on three Sundays in July.
Rutherford’s Garden ongoing
Curator of Botany Rachel Webster worked with Anna Bunney to support the ‘Rutherford’s Garden’ project, including an installation in the
Museum courtyard. Artist James Brady has been an Artist in Residence at the Museum following his successful application for the
University of Manchester Arts and Science Collaboration funding. The project draws inspiration from the research of Dr. Jon Pittman
(FLS), the Museum’s Herbarium collections and the historic work of Ernest Rutherford at The University.
The Museum arranged to have a Tigon, a rare cross between a Tiger and a Lion, mounted by a taxidermist. The skin had been in the
Museum since it was donated in 1949, nearly 60 years ago. Maude the Tigon was the most famous animal in Manchester’s Belle Vue
Zoo in the late 1930s and 40s. She has proved to be an extremely popular exhibit and talking point. Maude’s story featured in all major,
and many less major, UK newspapers, including the Times, Guardian, Sun, Independent, Manchester Evening News, Metro and more.
Partnerships and training
We have completed a highly effective second Cultural Concierge programme delivered with CityCo, Visit Manchester, MIF, Creative
Tourist and Manchester Visitor Information Centre. The aim of this is to ensure both that our own staff are aware of what is going on in
other venues through the city, and can recommend places to eat, drink and shop, and that hotel concierges are aware of what is
available in cultural institutions.
Our annual training programme with our visitor team has included work on:
• Mental Health First Aid
• Disability Awareness
• Makaton Training
• Equality & Diversity
• Description Training for Visual Impairments
• Dementia Friends/Champions
Our partners in training for these have been, Hear First, MindsEye, Disability Support Office, MIF (Makaton training), Alzheimer's
Society
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2 Facilitate innovative educational opportunities for Early Years, schools, colleges and lifelong learners
Early Years
2014-15 has been another successful and innovative year for Early Years work at the Museum with the Nature Discovery gallery
opening in December 2014. The gallery has been an opportunity to develop new sessions for our Baby Explorer and Magic Carpet
under 5’s family programmes, which continue to be popular, attracting 23,061 under 5’s visiting for family and formal learning
programmes. An Arts Council assessor attended our Magic Carpet sessions in April to carry out a quality assessment and we received
excellent feedback.
It also provides new opportunities to develop our early years formal learning programme and professional development sessions for
early years teachers. Elaine Bates, Early Years Coordinator, completed an MA at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood in
Birmingham, receiving a distinction for her evaluative dissertation on the Nature Discovery gallery, which focused on how effectively the
gallery is supporting families learning together and identified opportunities to support this further.
We have continued to develop our relationship with research staff at the Max Planck Child Study Centre, supporting MA student
research projects undertaken at the Museum with young children and their carers, focusing on language acquisition with objects.
Menaka Munro, Learning Manager, continues in the role of Impact Champion and on the Advisory Board for LuCID (ESRC International
Centre for Language and Communicative Development). We are supporting a family weekend event with the LuCID which will be held
in the museum in November 2015.
We have continued to share our early years practice through our Culturebabies blog and have attracted visits from international museum
and gallery professionals looking to set up their own programmes for the very youngest visitors; for example from Dallas Museum of Art
and Melbourne Museum. http://culturebabies.org.uk/
Formal Learning
The total number of formal learning visits from Early Years to Post 16 reached 29,732 pupils over 2014-2015.
The key development area for the Museum’s formal learning programme has been working towards ‘The Study’, a redevelopment of the
third floor of the Museum’s original 1885 Waterhouse building. Currently an underused space, the aim is to transform the third floor into a
unique research space for all visitors – a flexible, beautiful workspace that showcases the Museum’s collection and current University
research, with cutting edge tools and equipment. Development of this 774 m2 space is being led by the Museum’s Learning Manager,
and builds on the successful Learning & Engagement programme. The space will be informed by the same enquiry based learning
theory used in our schools and colleges programmes and aims to inspire a sense of curiosity in all visitors, ultimately empowering them
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to engage with their own passions and research interests and providing them with a space in which to pursue them. This is a distinct
approach within museums to the creation of a research space and a rare example of a public enquiry-based learning space.
Early development for The Study has involved establishing working partnerships with key organisations who are either leaders in adult
learning, such as Manchester Craft Mafia, or are undertaking interesting research that can be showcased in the space, such as The
Biospheric Studio – a tech start up company who are interested in food production in urban settings. The Study is a large scale capital
project and has received over £300,000 worth of external funding from a variety of funding bodies, including DCMS Wolfson, Arts
Council and Garfield Weston. The Museum has appointed Ben Kelly Design to the project and is working with Wilson Mason Architects
to ensure a full refurbishment and restoration of the original building.
Primary Learning
The Museum’s primary learning programme remains ever popular with local schools. The Cultural Access Programme had another
successful year, offering all Year 5 children in 16 local primary schools one free (coaches paid for) visit to one of the University’s cultural
assets. 636 pupils have participated at the Museum. A collaboration with Heald Place Primary School saw children from Years 1- 6
create a Cultural Ambassadors group of 30 children. Through a series of visits to the museum they curated a case in the schools
lunchroom and produced a museum trail entitled ‘Top Ten Objects’.
There has been a strong focus on developmental work, much of it in response to the new curriculum changes. The primary team has
piloted a Greek Super Learning Day for three Year 4 classes to develop their knowledge and showcase the wonderful Ancient Greek
collection. This project reached 180 pupils and proved an effective and distinctive way to engage young people in History. In response
to the new curriculum we piloted a new ‘Habitats and You’ session, differentiated across the age ranges.
In addition to delivering the core programme, the other area for development has been engaging teachers and CPD. The primary team
has supported many CPD events including the cultural education of 30 trainee teachers from MMU and 20 primary school teachers on
an English Heritage History CPD day. The museum participated in Manchester Grammar Schools History Conference where 120 KS2
teachers took part in a taster session highlighting what their classes could experience from a trip to the museum. In the museum the
team met with 18 Chinese teachers visiting Manchester interested in learning about how the museum uses objects in taught sessions.
The primary team supported a Primary Science Teacher CPD event led by Lyn Bianchi, head of the Science and Engineering Education
and Research and Innovation hub, where 20 teachers enthralled by our hands on approach to learning.
The Vivarium continues to be popular with schools, and the Vivarium team have developed some key programmes, particularly for
younger children and those with special needs. Scales and Tails sessions are specifically focused to provide one to one engagement
with the animals for children with learning difficulties and health related problems. Children with special needs from local schools taught
this year include those from St Peters High School (children with Autism), Park Lane Special School and Peak School (children with
learning difficulties). Others included children from Park Lane Special School and William Hulme School. The introduction of live animals
into the ‘Animal explorer’ sessions for Early Years continues to be very popular and over 250 children, ranging from those at a range of
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infant and primary schools throughout the region enjoyed these sessions this year. Children from schools included those from Echos
Nursery, St Mary’s Primary, St Edmunds Primary, and Lindhurst Primary.
The primary learning programme was also successful in a bid to the Zochonis Charitable Trust for £25,000 to develop a Primary Schools
Outreach programme. As the learning programme is nearing capacity within the Museum, this funding allows us to increase the
Museum’s reach to non-visiting schools and to satisfy demand. Plans for this programme are being developed by Learning Programme
Assistant, Jack Ridley and include the development of an ‘inflatable museum’, which allows us to better recreate the unique learning
environment of the Museum within a school. Sessions will feature real museum objects and be piloted in October 2015. The inflatable
museum is being designed by leading set designer Ben Stones.
Secondary and Post-16 Learning
Cat Lumb, Secondary and Post-16 Co-ordinator (Humanities), participated in a Teaching Schools Partnership initiative called Specialist
Leaders in Culture Education (SLiCE) funded by Curious Minds. The Museum was partnered with Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby
Lonsdale to examine the impact that cultural learning can have on pupils’ learning, with a sample of 150 pupils taking part. The
outcomes demonstrated that groups visiting cultural venues showed greater acquisition of knowledge related to ability, and evidence
suggests that those who visited cultural venues achieved significantly higher grades.
Cat Lumb also continues to develop the Secondary Humanities Enquiring Minds Programme through the cultivation of Museum-School
partnerships, such as the successful photography project with Tameside College. The Museum also continues to support the Ancient
History GCSE delivered by Parrs Wood High School and Walkden Academy by delivering an annual selection of workshops that
contribute to the coursework material for over 90 Year 10 students.
The Museum ran its second year of the ‘Art of Identity’ project, funded by The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts. This year
the project explored the topic of ‘Identity’ within multicultural Manchester with 280 children from three northwest secondary schools, who
do not regularly participate in cultural activities. The children worked with three practising artists and produced original artwork that was
exhibited in the Museum foyer.
The Real Life Science programme was awarded the prestigious 2015 Lever Prize (an annual award for leading cultural organisations in
the North West) by the North West Business Leadership Team (NWBLT). Winning the prize allowed Emily Robinson, Secondary and
Post-16 Co-ordinator (Science), to draw on the expertise of local business leaders to enhance and develop our core Real Life Science
sessions. For example, she has pursued links with Astrazeneca for advice on improving our already popular Genetic Engineering
Workshops, with cutting edge industry examples of applied science. She’s also pursued a number of graduates from various sciencebased companies within the NWBLT to do short promotional clips for inclusion in sessions, as examples of career pathways for visiting
pupils. As well as working with the NWBLT on our permanent schools programme, the £10,000 prize money was also used to host a
week long residential summer school for fifteen post-16 students from across the North-West. Demand for places was high and students
were chosen based on their passion for science and further education. Students participated in hands on Museum activities, site visits to
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examples of good practice such as the green roof at the University’s Graphene building, and also heard from industry leaders, such as
Chris Matthews from United Utilities as to why sustainability matters to business. In total, students had contact with over 18 different
NWBLT industry professionals and University of Manchester researchers.
As part of our continued work within the Natural History Museum’s Real World Science Partnership we hosted a Knowledge Exchange
placement by Sue Mallender, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries Real World Science Officer, to support the evaluation process of
the Sustainability Summer School programme.
We continue to consolidate our relationships with the University, supporting Widening Participation initiatives such as Gateways and
Manchester Access Programme (MAP). This year the Gateways programme had 716 contacts over 13 visits to the Museum and the
MAP programme features two bespoke workshops for 40 pupils. We continue to build partnerships with University Departments through
delivery of our Engage with the Experts Study Days and the RCUK SUPI programme.
To better understand the long term impact of our Secondary and Post 16 Science Programme on students’ career choices, the Museum
has been a key member of an application to the ‘Science Learning +’ funding stream, an international initiative established in partnership
with the US National Science Foundation and the ESRC. The Museum participated in a bid led by the Institute of Education at UCL and
in partnership with several key UK museums including the Natural History Museum in London, as well as several leading US Museums
such as Harvard Museums. We were successful in obtaining a stage 1 development grant and have used this to build an evidence base
and shape our research question for a stage 2 application in late 2015. If successful, this would provide up to 5 years funding to develop
longitudinal methodology, which could be used across all participating museums, to measure the impact of informal science learning
experiences on the attitude and career choices of participating school children. Potential outcomes include measurement tools that could
be rolled out in schools and science organisations across the UK and US.
Student engagement
500 students engaged with Manchester Museum's stand at "The Start of Year Fair" and 800 students came to "Night at the Museum",
both part of Welcome Week at the University of Manchester. Our Student Engagement Coordinator, Naomi Kashiwagi, together with our
Volunteer Coordinator Kate Glynn, recruited a team of 14 Student Consultants to work with on The Study, with a particular focus on The
Study Student Volunteer role. Weekly consultation sessions included discussing volunteer role development, including social media
overview, The Study activity trial and the Study Student Launch.
The vivarium has offered several new opportunities of support for student volunteers and placements, notably a zoology placement
student from Chester University/Reaseheath College working full time over the summer months, work experience students from local
schools. Volunteers now work in the vivarium supporting public handling sessions, every weekday.
Esme Ward continues to co-teach the post-graduate Creative Learning module, part of MA Museology and Arts Management courses.
Many of the wider learning and engagement team run seminars and placements as part of this programme.
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3 Engage our many communities in ways that are meaningful to them
Lifelong learners
Wonderstruck, an artist-led participatory choral project commissioned jointly with innovative UK arts charity, People United (dedicated to
working with the arts to create conditions for kindness and social change) was a highlight of the lifelong learning programme in
November 2014. Working with artists Daniel Bye, Sarah Punshon and Boff Whalley, over 100 people participated in the newly written
performance pieces across the Museum. All ages were represented with singers from community choirs, Golden Voices (Manchester
Age Friendly Choir) performing with primary school students from the Network Choir, Ordsall Acappellas and She Choir. The Museum
also created a choir for the project, including participants from Streetwise Opera. Filmmaker Tim McKnight was commissioned to
document the artistic process and the Culture Counts framework was used to measure the impact of the project. In March 2015 the
films were premiered with over half the participants returning. We will use this model of commissioning working with artists will inform
future lifelong learning opportunities. Throughout the Wonderstruck weekend, over 1,000 visitors encountered choirs across the
museum.
Partnerships across the University remain the most significant part of our growing Museum Meets adult programme, both enabling a
richness of content and ability to reach new and broad audiences. The year opened with a talk delivered by Michael Wood, Professor
of Public History. The opportunities of the jointly curated exhibition with the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (Rapa Nui: Making
Monuments on Easter Island) enabled co-development of adult programmes, with popular talks from Professor Colin Richards.
Northern Knap-in was a joint university and museum hands-on experimental research day into flint knapping. With academics from the
Faculty of Life Sciences, we hosted the adult event for their NERC funded summer of science and talks for the Museum of Medicine.
We again hosted a sell-out day course with Egyptology@Manchester on Egyptian Jewellery and the singing theme continued with a
‘Museum sings’ workshop with ethnomusicologist, Dr Caroline Bitthel. For our Siberia exhibition we hosted a talk by leading
anthropologist Dr Alexander Bird, University of Aberdeen. Rutherford’s Garden involved working with artist James Brady and Jon
Pitman from Plant Sciences, and as part of this research-led creative project (funded through the University of Manchester Social
Responsibility Arts and Science collaboration) the Museum allotment has been transformed.
We’ve continued to work in partnership with Confucius Institute and the Grey to Green Wildlife project and with local and national
festivals, including Wonder Women, Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester Science Festival and Manchester International Festival.
New collaborations this year were with the SICK! Festival and the Wellcome Collection Sexology season, with the talk ‘Carry on
Collecting’ by curator Stephen Welsh being podcast on their website. Poetry partnerships included a two day course with the Poetry
School and poet Helen Mort, focusing on our Manchester gallery and Siberia temporary exhibition, an age friendly targeted workshop
with Tony Sheppard, exploring the Museum’s Materia Medica, performances by Manchester collective Bad Language and a launch of
poetry collection inspired by our Entomology collection by poet Helen Clare.
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Our evening social events, After Hours have been delivered in partnership; from working with the Oxjam volunteers to raise money
through World Music, the artist led Look 200 evening and film screenings of artists films, Noah’s Ark and Home, which were followed by
discussion led by the Tyndall Centre. For Manchester’s Museums at Night with Creative Tourist and Culture 24, we were partnered with
Brighter Sound for a premiere of commissioned music based on Indian Waarli paintings. Finally, development work took place
throughout this year, in preparation for Manchester’s first ever EU Researchers Night in late September, with funding secured from the
Natural History Museum.
In June we were delighted to host the North West Adult Learners’ Week Awards Health and Social Care 2015 with Health Education
North West.
‘English Corner’, our joint project across the Manchester Museum Partnership to deliver free English conversation classes has flourished
and with the opening of the Whitworth is now available once a week across Manchester. Ruth Edson from Manchester Art Gallery and
Anna Bunney from Manchester Museum also participated in a British Museum-led project exploring Museums and ESOL providers. We
also jointly delivered a CPD training session for ESOL tutors in January in both venues, with over 40 participants. Through participation
in Talk English (a DCLG funded targeted ESOL project), we have engaged over 300 learners with the Museum and participated in a
celebration day at Manchester Cathedral in June.
4620 adults participated in 142 dedicated adult events and in addition 20,333 adults participated in family events such as Big Saturdays
and Magic Carpet. Object identification events such as Rock Drop and meteorite events and Collection Bites continue to be popular.
With the development work for the Study, our new adult learning space (as above), we developed partnerships with Manchester Craft
Mafia and the Biospheric Studio to explore new models of adult participation and learning opportunities. Development of other models
(such as lighting talks) and open access to the community of learning spaces (such as the Make Table) will come to fruition from
September 2015.
Partnerships
The Museum’s community engagement work continues to connect with local groups through the Museum Comes to You programme,
supported visits and festival attendance. In addition to events hosted in the museum as part of city-wide festivals and campaigns, we
continue to support festivals as part of our targeted audience development including the Manchester Mela, British Muslim Heritage Eid
celebrations and the Wythenshawe Games, reaching 715 families and older adults. From June to September 2015 the museum carried
out targeted outreach work in the Wythenshawe area, connecting with families, older adults and young people in an area of the city
identified as traditionally low in museum participation. Working with adult groups and supporting family activities in the libraries in the
area we are able to connect with 185 older adults and 110 family groups.
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Age Friendly, and Health & Culture
The Museum’s work with older people is now acknowledged as sector-leading. The recent international publication The Caring Museum
features an image from the Museums’ Coffee, Cake and Culture dementia-friendly programme on its cover and a chapter outlining our
work. The museum continues to work with the British Museum as one of the lead partners for the nationwide Age Friendly Museums
Network, promoting seminars, publications and events such as Silver Sunday across the museum network, encouraging and supporting
museums to work for and with older adults. This year the network has secured additional £60,000 from the Baring Foundation to develop
its leadership role.
Using the Museum Comes to You outreach programme we continue to work with community organisations such as Age UK, Manchester
Carers forum and Alzheimer’s Society support groups, Junction 17 and Gardener Units, which are young persons’ secure mental health
units, connecting with people at risk of social isolation through their support networks. This has allowed the museum to connect with
over 3,163 adults and young people. Museum Comes to You has also continued to support our off-site ESOL provision engaging 58
learners in Inspire Levenshulme and Salford Community College. In addition we have been worked with two LGBT groups (Rainbow
Noir and Out in the City) using the museum’s West African collections to explore perceptions of identity through programme of
workshops, visits and talks.
Our Health and Culture programme, established in 2008, focuses on delivering projects and programmes in collaboration with Central
Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Our partnerships now extend into many of the community health service
providers and charities and across the University of Manchester including; Macmillan Cancer Support, Stroke Association, Autistic
Society, Henshaws Society for Blind People and within the University, School of Medicine, DART, MICRA, Medhumlab and Museum of
Medicine and Health.
+Cultureshots is our week-long series of takeover events, planned to fit around a busy hospital working day. This year it took place 1317 July at Trafford General Hospital, engaging over 2000 hospital staff, patients and visitors. The event also ran a photography
competition for the hospital community. 19 works were selected, framed and displayed within the hospital. This was funded by the
League of Friends at Trafford Hospital.
Since 2013 we have delivered twice-weekly workshops on the stroke units at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Trafford General Hospital.
Devised in collaboration with clinical staff and part of the recovery and rehabilitation programme, we’ve delivered over 100 sessions for
560 patients and staff. In addition, we supported a workshop programme ‘Stories of Self through Art and Science’ a partnership with the
Stroke Association and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine, FLS. The programme supported 20 stroke
survivors to explore their personal stories of life after stroke.
We are developing further our work with people with dementia, drawing upon the significant expertise within the University. We received
£6500 commission from CMFT to develop resources for dementia patients. Forget-me-not are a series of Montessori based resources
and activities linked to collections. We have contributed to an evidence-based group programme to offer cognitive stimulation therapy
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(CST) to people with dementia. The CST manual offers a further 24 carefully researched group sessions for use in all care settings. The
manual comes with a new DVD showing filmed examples of sessions with leaders and people with dementia.
Wendy Gallagher, Arts for Health Manager, has recently been accepted to study part time MSc in Dementia Care, funded by NHS, and
Esme Ward continues to advise cultural organisations, Arts Council and government on dementia friendly culture. Most recently, she
visited Japan and led sessions for business and arts organisations (in partnership with the British Council) on Manchester’s approach to
dementia friendly work. Esme also sits on the Dementia Friends steering group in the University. The Museum seeks to ensure all
public-facing staff are trained as Dementia Friends.
The museum continues to be part of the Age Friendly Manchester Cultural Offer Group, promoting and developing programmes for older
adults both in the museum and externally in the community through the Museum Comes to You programme. We have developed new
partnerships with the Manchester Carers Forum, a support network for older adults who are carers, visiting their group meetings in North
Manchester, Salford and Hulme. As part our targeted outreach work over the summer we visited the Wythenshawe games age friendly
day and a Grand Day out group who target older adults at risk of exclusion. We continue to offer tours and supported visits to
organisation with wider reach such as Henshaws Society for the Blind, supporting 40 of their service users to access our collections, and
the University of the Third Age. We also continue to work with Age UK visiting their social groups in Openshaw, Moston and Gorton.
Volunteering
Our commitment to volunteering has continued to grow during 2014-15, offering a diverse range of opportunities to a total of 245
volunteers who have contributed 11,347 volunteer hours (total value of £136,164). Manchester Museum remains at the centre of
citywide volunteer developments, leading the Cultural Volunteer Coordinators Forum, a network dedicated to cultural and heritage
volunteering which has representation from 16 different Museums and Galleries. This year the group has centralised the way cultural
volunteer opportunities are promoted as well as hosted a Volunteer Celebration for volunteers and staff from across the city during
Volunteers Week.
We held four recruitment drives for new volunteers, particularly aimed at University of Manchester students, MLP students and
graduates. A total of 99 volunteers were recruited (83 of whom were students) who began volunteering in our object handling and public
programmes departments.
We now have seven object handling tables operating on the Museum’s galleries; new introductions this year include Nature Discovery
(aimed at our Early Years audience) and Palaeontology. Volunteers have also supported a number of other museum activities and
projects including: Culture Shots, English Corner, Talk English, Museum Meets, Wonderstruck and the University’s Cultural Access
Programme. The volunteer programme also supports bespoke placements for individuals including a young man with cerebral palsy and
offers learning activities for organisations such as Venture Arts and Back on Track. Finally, a total of 7 volunteers have gained
employment as casual members of staff within the Visitor Service team. This is a great example of volunteer progression within the
organisation.
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In line with the development of the Museum’s new public research space, The Study, a new volunteering role is also under development
to support the space. This role will be distinct from other volunteering opportunities within the Museum and will focus on recruiting
volunteers who have a passion for learning in the broadest sense – from academic research to comic books. Kate Glynn is working on
the development of this role and devising a training programme for new recruits that focuses on research techniques and enquiry based
learning theory. She is also working with Naomi Kashiwagi, the Student Engagement Coordinator, to reach out to a diverse range of
potential volunteers including students and older learners. We hope to recruit and train up to 40 volunteers in September 2015.
if: Volunteering for Wellbeing
if: Volunteering for wellbeing, an HLF funded project in partnership with IWM North, is now in its third year. To date, Manchester
Museum has recruited 75 volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds who have taken part in a 16-week heritage training course.
Evaluation from year one and two provides significant evidence which demonstrates that museums and galleries can be highly effective
settings for addressing social needs and supporting essential services to unlock improvements in public health and wellbeing. Key
findings from across the partnership include:
• 85% of volunteers were in receipt of a benefit
• 86% report significant increase in wellbeing
• 28 people gained employment
if: Volunteering for wellbeing was highly commended as an ‘outstanding local community collaboration’ at this year’s Making a Difference
Awards for Social Responsibility and was shortlisted at the Spirit of Manchester Awards (Partnership Project).
Our younger volunteers, the Museum Youth Board, continue to attract new members (with some leaving to go to university the board
membership remains consistent at 15 members). Highlights include working in collaboration with Manchester Art Gallery Creative
Consultants to curate a Thursday late event at Manchester Art Gallery with a total of 20 young people working together in the planning
and development attracting 217 visitors on the night. The group have contributed to Microverse, a national citizen science research
project aimed at young people and led by the Natural History Museum examining microscopic life in urban environments. Their
contribution will be published later in 2015. They have also worked with a designer to improve the look and feel of the lockers in the
reception area, highlighting their favourite objects in the collection. Elisha Bradley from the youth board carried out an archive research
project as part of the development of the Gift for the Gods: Animal Mummies exhibition, presenting her work at a national student
conference in Edinburgh in July 2015.
Families
We have had a record-breaking year, with more families visiting than ever before. 92,264 visitors participated in 233 family events
(23,618 under 5’s, 44,674 5-15 year olds, 1,341 16-19 year olds, 22,631 adults).
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Our flagship Big Saturday programme continues with great success and draws upon a range of partnerships across the city and region,
including Festival of Archaeology, National Science and Engineering Week, 24:7 Theatre Festival and Manchester Science Festival. In
February we also hosted a Climate Challenge Big Saturday with new partners such as Liverpool John Moores University, Manchester
Metropolitan University, The University of Manchester and the British Antarctic Survey. In May 2015 the Museum’s Science Spectacular
event in partnership with NOWGEN, Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Directorate for the
Student Experience won a special Social Responsibility Award for Sustained Contribution to Public Engagement.
Working with the Early Years Co-ordinator, the informal offer for visitors under 5 continues apace, with the opening of newly developed
Nature Discovery gallery, early openings, new Magic Carpet sessions, a toddler handling table which is facilitated by a team of dedicated
and trained volunteers, and a paper-based on-gallery resource.
In November 2014 we launched a new element to our core programme of family activities to include two early openings per month. One
for 0-5’s and their older siblings and parents/carers which occurs before the monthly Big Saturday, and on the second Saturday of every
month we have an Autism Friendly early opening. Our Autism Friendly early openings have gone from strength to strength (most
recently 233 visitors), with this target audience preferring to access the Museum at quieter times. We have also seen a transferal of
‘new’ visitors to these sessions accessing our broader programme of activities. We have been working closely with the National Autistic
Association to develop and promote our Autism Friendly sessions and provide Autism Awareness sessions for staff members.
Partnership work with the Family Arts Network North West continues and this year the Network successfully bid for additional fund to
promote its work throughout the Family Arts Festival in October 2015. Intergenerational work was highlighted through the continuing
success of our Grandparents/Grandchildren scrapbook and events for Grandparents Weekend in October 2014.
Over the summer the Museum delivered events both within the Museum and in Wythenshawe, where we developed our partnership
work with Manchester Libraries, focusing our family outreach visits to libraries in Wythenshawe as part our broader targeted work to
consult with this audience. The Museum took family activities to the Wythenshawe Games, Wythenshawe Park, Forum Library and
Brooklands Library supporting the Libraries Summer Reading Challenge and promoting the Museum’s Summer Family programme.
Alongside our broader participatory programmes, we run targeted work to attract key family audiences; this year this has included
continued work with Genie Networks, a charity which supports deaf people and their families who made an annual visit to the Museum
during the Summer, and work with Trafford Carers Centre, who visited the Museum on a supported visit with 6 young carers and their
supporting adults.
Our partnership continues with Into Film, whose 3 year ‘Opening Minds; Transforming Lives’ project in Greater Manchester will set up
150 free after school film clubs in Greater Manchester schools where at least 20% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. In April we
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worked with a young film group from the WOW Zone in Wythenshawe to develop and produce a film documenting the Museum’s Big
Saturday, Nature and Us. We will be continuing to work with Into Film in a similar way next year.
The Museum’s involvement with the Happy Museum projects continues, with the publication of the Rules for a Playful Museum, a tool for
other cultural and heritage venues wishing to support play in their venues to use as guidelines. We received £5000 to develop our work
with the Happy Museum over the next 3 years, with a focus on programmes and exhibitions on developing a sustainable world.
4 Ensure that the Museum plays a distinctive role in the teaching, learning and research programmes of the
University
Supporting student teaching and learning
The Museum has seen significant, year on year increases in the use that is made of it for student teaching and learning; the number of
modules using the Museum has risen yet again, to 165 in total (117 in the U of M, 48 elsewhere), despite the Collections Study Centre
being out of commission for most of the year under review while it was being redeveloped as part of The Study. The number of research
activities drawing on collections rose by 5% to 3,635, with many including student research projects. The number of students involved in
research and teaching activities increased by 4% to 7,074 students. This has been achieved through a targeted and concerted effort to
enhance teaching use by areas of the University that are a natural fit with the Museum’s subject areas. Links with FLS, SEAES (notably
Earth Sciences), Museum Studies/ICP, Archaeology and Anthropology have always been strong, and in recent years we have worked to
increase teaching use for History and other subject areas in SALC, and with SEED. We are working to develop strong relationships with
the new Global Development Instititute and will similarly work to support the newly shaped FLS and SEES. These partnerships will
extend beyond student teaching and learning, but into our public events and exhibitions, as there is a very comfortable fit with our work
around sustainability and intercultural understanding.
Following comments from the previous APR, Head of Collections Henry McGhie met with Clive Agnew to discuss ways in which the
Museum can effectively support a distinctive student experience. As a direct result, we have been working with DSE to get Museum
volunteering opportunities listed as eligible for students’ HEAR report, with this work being undertaken by Volunteer Co-ordinator Kate
Glynn. Henry McGhie and Amanda Bamford have developed a ‘Student Curator’ scheme, to be launched in the present year. This
involves students attending weekend seminar-style sessions on practical museum skills, and aims to consolidate student volunteering
based around museum collections into a more co-ordinated scheme.
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Henry McGhie worked with the student Zoology Society to provide a series of lunch-time ‘specimens in focus’ talks and explorations of
particular animals, supported by other museum staff, including Curator of Herpetology Andrew Gray; the Zoo Soc won the award for
‘best student society’. Rachel Webster supported a similar series of visits for the Botany Society.
Curator of Earth Sciences David Gelsthorpe worked closely with David Schultz (SEAES) to develop an Earth Sciences MOOC using the
collections and the museum as a backdrop. David has also worked with Caroline Jay in the School of Computer Science to supervise a
MSc project to develop a mass digitisation citizen science website to transcribe the fossil collection labels, which has subsequently been
taken up to great effect by students. Campbell Price has worked closely with Dr Joyce Tyldesley (FLS), on the first FLS MOOC, 'A
History of Ancient Egypt in Six Objects', based entirely on the Museum’s Egyptology collection. Launching in October 2015, the course
builds on a range of online, distance learning courses in Egyptology with expected uptake of over 15,000 students worldwide.
Campbell Price ran object handling sessions for two Egyptology-themed University College courses with Dr. Joyce Tyldesley. The
University College course Collecting and Exhibiting Culture did not run in the year under review, but will run again in the present year.
There have been issues in how this is advertised, which should now be addressed.
The Museum hosted four Industrial Year placements, two from FLS, and two from MMU, with two in Zoology, one in Botany and one in
Entomology. Placement projects focus on curatorial practice, literature-based research and science communication skills.
Henry McGhie and Holly Shiels (FLS) were awarded funding from the Learning Through Research fund, to develop a series of tutorialbased activities where 2nd year Biology students learn through self-directed research. Rachel Webster worked with AGLC to develop a
series of workshops to develop independent research and communication skills. Workshops took place in the AGLC and the Museum.
The students produced technical and lay summaries of selected objects that will be used in the Museum to add to the information about
the specimens. This series of activities culminated in a public event, where students spoke with the public about their chosen topics and
objects. Students told us that this activity stretched their learning, as they had to make use of resources unfamiliar to them in order to
learn effectively.
To give some examples of teaching:
Humanities: Bryan Sitch taught sessions for SALC (Archaeology) about Roman military archaeology (CLAH 30881) and for Classics
about Roman coins (ARGY20042 and CLAH10122) and made available Minoan objects for lecturers from Archaeology (ARGY 30222).
Many curatorial staff teach and facilitate projects for the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies. David Gelsthorpe and Rachel Webster
undertook teaching for Geography. Curator of Anthropology Stephen Welsh worked with Dr. Pierre Fuller during the UoM international
summer school to introduce Chinese students to the Chinese collection, and led seminars for Social Anthropology students around
Asian History, Modern China and the Afterlife of Objects. Stephen also worked with Professor Tim Insoll to deliver several world
archaeology sessions to almost 100 students. Henry McGhie gave a lecture and tours for students from The Geography of Life, with Dr.
Richard Huggett. Campbell Price has delivered lectures and object handling sessions for over 100 students taking archaeology and
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ancient history modules, focusing on the rich evidence of Pharaonic daily life and afterlife beliefs in the collection. He regularly supports
the supervision of Long Essay and Dissertation topics in Egyptology.
EPS: David Gelsthorpe undertook teaching in MACE and supplied objects to illustrate crystal formation for Chemistry teaching.
FLS: Dmitri Logunov undertook teaching in field courses on Urban Biodiversity and Conservation (BIOL 20872) and Tropical Ecology
and Conservation in Costa Rica (BIOL20552), which was also attended by Curator of Herpetology Andrew Gray. Dmitri received a unit
survey score of 4.94 for the Costa Rica field course, as a result of his enthusiasm and knowledge. Rachel Webster took part in two FLS
field courses: Comparative and Adaptive Biology, Mallorca (first year undergraduates) and Alpine and Forest Ecology, Italian Alps
(second-year undergraduates), which was also attended by Henry McGhie. Henry, Rachel and Dmitri also lectures and seminars for FLS
students.
As the Museum is a non-academic unit, it can act as a partner in CASE studentships, but not with research based in the University of
Manchester (due to the rules from RCUK). Kayleigh Rose completes her PhD in biomechanics in the present year. The Museum is
partner in a further successful CASE partnership with the University of Liverpool. .
The Museum as a vehicle for the research impact agenda
Head of Collections Henry McGhie has analysed the REF2014 in terms of the Museum’s contribution towards Impact Templates,
Environment Templates and Impact Case Studies. The Museum featured in more Impact Case Studies (17) than any other UK university
museum (more than Oxford or Cambridge museums, or UCL museum), and more than any museum except the NHM, BM, V&A and
Science Museum, which are all much larger (and London-based). It featured in more Impact Case Studies than the National Museums of
Wales, Scotland, and more than any other Manchester cultural venue (eg. MOSI 8 Impact Case Studies). This is a major headline for a
university museum. He has provided a summary of the Museum’s place in REF2014 to Impact Co-ordinators. The Museum was cited in
the Environment Templates for 9 units of assessment: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Biological Sciences; Mathematics;
Archaeology; Anthropology; English Language and Literature; History; Classics; Art and Design- History, Practice and Theory. Clinical
Medicine; Archaeology; Sociology; English Language and Literature; History; Classics; Philosophy; Art and Design- History, Practice and
Theory.
UOM impact case studies= 7
1. Reconstructing Ancient Faces (John Prag)
2. History of British Exploration: enhancing public understanding of Scott of the Antarctic
3. Exhibiting Surrealism to the Public (David Lomas)
4. Manchester and the Dead Sea Scrolls (John Prag)
5. Conservation Activities and Biodiversity Training in Sumaco National Park, Ecuador (Richard Preziosi)
6. Supporting Multilingualism and Community Language Needs
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7. Providing Healthcare Training and Increasing Public Awareness of Neglected Tropical Diseases via national and international
engagement (Sheena Cruickshank)
Impact case studies in other universities= 10
1. Changing the display and interpretation of the Lindow Man exhibit (U of Bristol)
2. Migration, Refugees and Belonging (U of East London)
3. Revitalising the cultural and retail environments through technology (U of Edinburgh and Herriot-Watt)
4. Influencing public perceptions of Muslim communities and Islam (SOAS)
5. Local and global consequences of trans-Atlantic slavery, abolition and racial oppression (UCLAN)
6. The Ancient Trireme (Royal Holloway)
7. LJMU research improves public understanding of human evolution through engagement with creative and media sector (LJMU)
8. Herculean Labours: enriching the public understanding of our classical mythological heritage (U of Leeds)
9. Laser cleaning leads to the preservation and restoration of world heritage and art (Loughborough Uni)
10. Cultural, economic and political impacts resulting from the discovery of Ice Age Cave Art at Cresswell Crags (Sheffield Uni)
In terms of working towards the next REF, Henry McGhie has been meeting with Judith Gracey and staff involved in Impact in SEED and
BWPI (to become GDI), to develop and realise opportunities for academics to use the Museum for Impact and wider public engagement
purposes; he also attended a NERC Impact Accelerator Workshop held in the Museum.
We have been working to include academics in exhibitions and related programmes where their work promotes understanding between
cultures and sustainability, and complements our exhibitions and events. For example, Making Monuments was based around academic
work on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by Prof. Colin Richards. Rapa Nui has often been used as a metaphor for what might happen to the
Earth if we do not use resources more sustainably. The Museum’s Siberia temporary exhibition drew on academic work that relates to
the Museum’s main themes, around environmental sustainability and intercultural understanding. A key part of the display showcased
research on climate change and Arctic permafrost by Bart Van Dongen (SEAES).
Drs. Lidija McKnight and Stephanie Atherton-Woolham (Hon. Academic Curators of Zooarchaeology) have continued their work
documenting the animal mummies in the collection, and co-curated the temporary exhibition 'Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies
Revealed', accompanied by a book.
The conference ‘Refloating the Ark’ was organised to promote the effective use of museums for research and public engagement
purposes; the meeting was very well attended (110 museum professionals and academics from throughout the UK) and received an
excellent review in Museums Journal. Curator of Botany Rachel Webster worked with Dr. Giles Johnson to develop the University of
Manchester FLS Environmental Roadshow for an evening of hands-on demonstrations and flash talks based on NERC-funded research.
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The Roadshow was made possible by an award from NERC celebrating their 50-year anniversary. Henry McGhie, Dmitri Logunov and
Rachel Webster are listed in the Living Labs and Ecosystem Services databases, to promote interaction. Henry McGhie was awarded
Higher Education Innovation Fund money to promote relationships between people working in museums in the NW and researchers
working in the field of environmental sustainability. This has resulted in Stronger connections between attending museums and
academics; increased skills and awareness of delegates in terms of connecting with wider sustainability agendas; increased awareness
of the potential for these museums to connect with the social responsibility agenda; resulted in a new partnership between natural
history museums and the National Biodiversity Network, to find way to release ‘trapped’ data in museums., and fostered a strong
partnership between the Museum and Lancashire Wildlife Trust on their ‘Carbon Landscapes’ project.
Use of the Museum’s resources by researchers and teachers
We have produced a digest of publications that have drawn on the Museum collection, exhibitions and practices during 2004–14, to
understand which areas are used most extensively, and where there are opportunities for further development. This shows that the
Museum has featured in approximately 700 publications (books, chapters, journal articles), or approximately 70 per year.
To give some example of the diverse ways in which the Museum is used by researchers and teachers: the Museum was a major partner
in an ERC-funded project to scan and digitize beak shapes of all 10,000 of the world’s bird species (the Museum has around 3,500
species), organised by the University of Sheffield. BBSRC-funded CASE student Kayleigh Rose (with FLS) continued her work on
biomechanics, drawing on the Museum’s collection. The museum is hosting post-doctoral student José Antonio Cantón Álvarez with
funding from and support from British Inter-university China Centre (BICC) Cultural Engagement Partnership and Professor Yangwen
Zheng (UoM). Nikolaus Stolle, a German researcher, visited to review parts of the Native North American collection. Gave tours of the
collection for the UoM theology conference delegates. Rapa Nui obsidian donated by Charles Heape was tested by UoM archaeology
department.
The FLS placement student Jemma Houghton developed teaching resources using the Museum’s Materia Medica collection. The activity
is based on specimens on display in ‘Nature’s Library’ and explores the sources of ancient and modern medicines. This session is now
part of the self-guided offer to school parties.
Despite closure of the herbarium, we were able to accommodate five academic research visits to the collection; three from the UK and
two from Japan.
At least eight academic papers were based on the Manchester Museum’s entomology collections in 2014-15.
A collaborative project with FLS (Melissa Kidd, project student, and Tucker Gilman) and MMU (Edward Harris) on the spider genus Saitis
is on its way. The project student was provided with samples of two Saitis species from the MM’s collection for DNA-sequencing and
further analysis and possible further steps were discussed.
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The Museum’s Earth Sciences collections have formed the basis of new research projects by the School of Computer Science on citizen
science, Ice Age Animals and fossil plants.
The scheme of Honorary Academic Curators, established in 2014, has been extremely successful in strengthening relations with
relevant academics, and incorporating them and their work into public events and thinking about exhibitions. New appointments in the
year under review include Prof. Andrew Chamberlain, Dr. Lidija McKnight and Dr. Steph Atherton-Woolham in FLS, Will Fletcher from
Geography, Prof Richard Preziosi and Prof Amanda Bamford from FLS, and Professor Tim Insoll from Archaeology. Dr. Roberta Mazza
(Hon. Curator of Graeco-Roman Egypt) has organised a number of high-profile events on the ethics of collecting and the illegal trade in
antiquities.
We have continued to host the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ancient Life (ICAL), which brings together researchers from right across the
University to focus on the insights that high resolution imaging can bring to the study of archaeology and palaeontology. The close
relationship between researchers and the museum has enabled a strong public engagement programme to take place, which has seen
ICAL at the Royal Society Summer Show and the Cheltenham Science Festival. A life sized cast of Gorgosaurus commissioned for the
former is now on permanent display in the Museum.
5 Become known for our fresh approach to the development and use of the collection
Digital collections access
Documentation work, largely supported by volunteers and students, has added 16,000 computer records to our database, Ke Emu. This
is a major channel by which researchers, students and the public explore our stored collections as part of their studies and research.
The great majority of the collection is listed on Ke Emu in some form, either as individual catalogue records, or as ‘bulk’ records covering
groups of objects and specimens. A total of 647,527 searchable online records cover 99% of the collection. This is a significant
achievement, given that the collection includes 4.8 million objects and specimens. We have experienced difficulties in getting ownership
of technical support and development of Ke Emu within IT, but have made progress in this direction with the help of Angela Hilton.
Henry McGhie has been working with the National Biodiversity Network, Zooniverse and other organisations to help promote and
develop methodologies and opportunities for crowd-sourcing and mass digitisation, with a view to involving many more people in
museums, to unlock information held with collections. This will inform future developments in crowd-sourcing information about a range
of collections, and is already being trialled by David Gelsthorpe, who has worked with Caroline Jay (School of Computer Science) to
develop a mass digitisation citizen science website to transcribe fossil collection labels. This has involved a team of new volunteers
photographing thousands of specimens from the collection to make them available online. Volunteers from across the world can then
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transcribe the information which will then be used in the catalogue. In similar vein, Lindsey Loughtman has worked with Kate Glynn to
develop a volunteer-led, on-gallery activity in which the public are invited to help photograph the botanical microscope slide collection.
This gives visitors a taste of behind-the-scenes work at the Museum. In future, these photographs will be made available via an online
crowd-sourcing programme to help digitise the collection and to bring the collection to the attention of a wider audience.
Stephen Welsh has continued to prolifically use social media to increase and encourage digital access to the Living Cultures collection.
The Kongolese power figures Mangaaka and Kozo have also been extensively promoted on the Met website and Twitter feed as they
went on loan there.
Nearly 800 photographs of the Materia Medica collection have been uploaded to KE Emu and are available to view online. Over 2000
photographs of liverworts, ferns and flowering plants have been upgraded to higher resolution images. These records with images were
to be uploaded to Europeana, an EU-funded online database of cultural materials in museums and galleries. 1,500 specimens from the
Challenger Expedition were photographed by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (Exeter) as part of a project funded by the Ellerman
Foundation.
Rachel Webster and Lindsey Loughtman have arranged to deliver images of the Alan Newton Rubus collection to the Herbaria@Home
website. This will make an important botanical reference collection available to the main potential users, the members of the BSBI.
More than 600 digital photographs of the D. Longsdon’s Swallowtail Butterfly collection have been uploaded to KeEmu. Information from
data labels have been extracted and transcribed for the following collections of British insects: dragonflies and damselflies; bees, wasps
and ants; and parasitoid wasps of the family Aphididae; the data were transferred for uploading to the National Biodiversity Network, the
UK portal for biological records, used by researchers, policy makers and the public. Michael Dockery started a project to extract
information from data labels of British butterflies, to provide to researchers.
Campbell Price has continued to use social media to increase and encourage digital access to the Egypt and Sudan collection.
Hundreds of new images have been added to Ke-Emu and volunteers have completed the first phase of digitising the Museum’s archive
correspondence for Egyptology (over 600 items). Social media platforms are a key component of the upcoming FLS Egyptology MOOC
(over 15,000 people registered - see above). More archive documentation is planned for 2015/16.
Regional working
Henry McGhie established and led a network of all of the museums in the NW with significant natural history collections, amounting to 31
museums totalling 7 million objects/specimens and over 2 million visitors a year. The network was established as many museums face
funding crises, collections are looked after by staff not confident in using them, and collections are poorly understood or at risk. The work
complements work led by Nick Merriman as part of a national advocacy programme, in association with the Natural History Museum and
other major regional museums. The NW work has been very well received, and resulted in an advocacy document (7 Million Wonders)
that has been used as a model by other museums for their advocacy, a website with advocacy tools, good publicity in the Museums
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Journal, and a national conference, Refloating the Ark. David Gelsthorpe, Rachel Webster, Dmitri Logunov and Henry McGhie have
been working with NW museums to review their collections, to understand their cultural value and potential for use, and to raise
confidence among those working with these collections.
Dmitri Logunov organized a ‘Coleopterists Day’ at the Manchester Museum for local enthusiasts studying beetles around North-West.
Dmitri Logunov and Phillip Rispin supported two national insect festivals at the Derby University (November 2014) and in York (July
2015). Dmitri Logunov gave three talks to 6th-form colleges and a talk to the Derbyshire Natural History Society (14 Nov).
Stephen Welsh is a core committee member and North West representative of the Islamic Art and Material Culture Subject Specialist
Network. He has also been a member of the British Muslim Heritage Centre steering group to support the 100 Stories of Sacrifice
project. He was also appointed as a temporary committee member of the Museum Ethnographers Group to oversee the progression of
the MEG conference which will happen in April 2016 at Manchester Museum. Stephen also worked closely with the International
Curators visiting from the British Museum and Future Curator (a British Museum training scheme) Kiera Gould completed her placement.
Stephen presented at the Everyday Muslim conference in London.
Campbell Price stepped down as Chair of the Association of Curators for Collections from Egypt and Sudan (ACCES) at the end of
2014, but continues as North West representative – hosting a workshop in November 2015. Campbell has hosted several popular
Egyptology workshops for the North West Development Agency and maintains close links with collections in Liverpool, Bolton, Wigan,
Southport, and Sheffield. Campbell provided curatorial support to the Wigan Museum ‘Ancient Egypt Rediscovered’ exhibition and the
new Ancient Egypt gallery at The Atkinson, Southport.
Museum staff participated in networking meetings for NW curators working with natural history collections. Lindsey Loughtman and
Rachel Webster visited Liverpool World Museum herbarium as part of the North West Herbarium Curators meeting series. The
agreement to house part of the archive of the British Pteridological Society expired and this archive has been transferred to the
herbarium of Liverpool World Museum whose fern collection is less familiar to the society.
Thematic collecting
Curators have been working on an innovative thematic collecting project, initiated in response to work by Nick Merriman. This work
featured in conference presentations at Rheged on ‘Sustainability in Museums’, and as part of Refloating the Ark. This offers museums a
novel and sustainable way of approaching collecting, moving away from a responsive mode (which lacked an intellectual foundation
from the beginning) to a model based on interpreting and documenting contemporary issues and concerns, and building relationships
with people.
Bryan Sitch filmed interviews on the themes of Migration and Water at South Shields Museum, at Stoupa in the Peloponnese in Greece,
and on the subject of Little Owls in Greece; with Dr Andrew Fear, Lecturer in Classics, about a Roman inscription in the collection; with
Dr Emma Stafford (University of Leeds) about a vase in the collection showing Herakles. David Gelsthorpe has recorded interviews on
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the themes of Migration and Water at Manchester Christmas Market, Walney Island in Cumbria, North Sea Fossils in Holland and Le
Brea Tar Pits, California (funded by an Art Fund Ruffer Grant). Dmitri Logunov has recorded six interviews on the themes of Migration
and Water on: butterfly conservation in Shropshire with Stephen Lewis; migrations of the Brown Trout to caves with Graham Proudlove;
a freshwater shrimp that survived the Ice Age with Graham Proudlove; a story of the Chinese Mitten Crab with Malcolm Greenhalgh;
creating a poem ‘Belonging’ with Helen Clare; and butterfly migration with Laurence Cook. Rachel Webster has recorded interviews on
the themes of Migration and Water at Manchester Christmas Market, Keukenhof in Holland, Flora Holland, the New Land Museum in
Holland, the River Bollin near Altrincham and with Campbell Price about Egyptian textiles. Henry McGhie has recorded interviews with
the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Liverpool University, around themes of bird and mammal conservation, and
how people contribute towards this. Stephen has recorded responses to museums and migration from playwright Anjum Malik and a
UoM social anthropologist. Campbell Price has filmed interviews with Dr Steven Snape (on the migration of ostriches in North East
Africa), Dr Valentina Gasperini (on the migration of pottery styles around the ancient Mediterranean) and Drs Alice Stevenson, Emma
Libonati, Hisham El-Leithy, and Bassem Gahad on the migration of Pharaonic objects from Egypt to the UK. This connects with a wider
AHRC-funded research project, based at UCL, on the migration of Pharaonic objects to UK museum collections. Work with Egyptian
colleagues has proved especially useful in establishing contacts.
Storage improvements
We have been able to secure a PRISM grant for a complete re-storage of the British Lepidoptera collection, and as a result 18 new steel
cabinets and 230 new unit-trays were purchased. Two-thirds of specimens in the British Lepidoptera collection have already been rehoused in 220 new drawers. The project resulted not only in greatly improved storage facilities, but in better access to the collection. A
complete restorage of the spider collection by Dmitri Logunov is 80% complete; storage facilities have been improved (new jars) and
much better access to the collection is provided. Work on re-boxing the ancient Greek pottery collection has continued. The Coin Room
in Numismatics has been reorganised. An important collection of archaeological material from the site of the Roman fort in Manchester
was transferred from Manchester Art Gallery to the Museum. We have been able to acquire new shelving for the large objects in the
fossil collection. This has given increased access to objects and provided expansion space. The newly acquired Howie Mineral collection
has been packed in acid free storage.
The Herbarium has been closed for the year while major renovations were made to the roof and to the 1885 Building electrical and
lighting systems. Most of the work did not result in direct improvements to the store, but all the windows and skylights are now doubleglazed and UV filtered. The work also required the removal of wooden storage cupboards and these have been replaced with more
appropriate metal racking. The herbarium collections were dispersed into safer storage while the work progressed. Once the recant is
complete, the major collections will be stored on shelving (not hard stacked), in consecutive order and contained within the 4th floor store
rooms. Susan Martin continues to make ongoing improvements to the storage of the Living Cultures collection, and continues to make
improvements to the storage of the Egypt and Sudan collection, with a major upgrade of the Organics store mezzanine level in 2015.
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Collections improvements
Lindsey Loughtman has continued to host volunteers in a temporary venue while both the Herbarium and Collections Study Centre were
closed. Volunteers conserved herbarium sheets, and improved computer records. Completed tasks included checking and amending
computer records for the General Flowering Plants collection; work started on species-level bulk records for the cultivated plants.
Curatorial Assistant Phillip Rispin worked on the recuration of the Museum’s collection of British Butterflies and Moths, which is rich in
historical and scientifically important material. Michael Dockery (Honorary Curatorial Associate) completed a project on D. Longsdon's
collection of Swallowtail Butterflies and published an article in which this collection and its history are fully described (Russian
Entomological Journal, 2015, 24,2: 155–179). Graham Proudlove (Honorary Curatorial Associate) continued with the recuration and
documentation of the Museum’s centipede and millipede collection. Clare Miles (Volunteer) completed a project on the Museum’s earwig
collection and produced a catalogue of type specimens, published in the European Journal of Taxonomy. Casual volunteers helped out
with various curatorial works needed.
Prof. John Prag - with Clare Pye and others - has brought the Alderley Edge landscape project close to publication. Kay Prag has
continued her research on the Jerusalem and the Tel Iktanu site excavation archives. Keith Sugden, who retired as Curator of
Numismatics in 2014, assisted with the reorganization of the Numismatic collection.
We have had a team of volunteers taking images of fossils for our Citizen Science project to document our collection and engage virtual
volunteers across the world. Our Honorary Curatorial Associates have delivered public events such as The European Scientists Night
and Manchester Science Festival.
Transfers
The skull of a Japanese soldier brought to Manchester at the end of the Second World War was transferred to Japanese authorities, who
travelled to Manchester as part of a series of visits to collect similar remains from European museums. The event was reported in
Museums Journal. We are currently arranging for the transfer of some Bernard Leach studio pottery to Manchester Art Gallery, where it
will be of more use for exhibitions and for study.
New acquisitions
Maude, a famous Tigon from Belle Vue Zoo, was prepared as a taxidermy mount from a flat skin, having been in the Museum for 60
years. She is now on display and has been a popular and much discussed exhibit. The Museum acquired 240 bird skins from the
collection of FW Frohawk, a famous Edwardian naturalist and wildlife artist. In Entomology, 19 small collections were acquired, ranging
from two important Mediterranean spider collections (from Crete and Chios); and from Anthony Russell-Smith (Kent), and four
specimens of a beetle species new to the collection from Jonathan Cooter. Some acquisitions originated from the curator's fieldwork
(e.g., in Iceland) or from public enquires (e.g., captive-bred spiders).
In the last year the archaeology collection has taken receipt of archaeological objects from the Abu Hureyra excavation of 1973 by Prof.
Andrew Moore. The Museum contributed to the site excavation fund. The Museum also received sizeable archaeological archives of
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finds from the Whitworth Park community archaeology excavation project, as well as Roman archaeological material from the
Manchester and Salford exhibition of 1909 that was transferred from Manchester Art Gallery.
Two woven mats with geometric patterns, bought from the Tuvalu Women’s Craft Centre in Tuvalu in March 1985, were donated to the
Museum. At the time of purchase the donor, Sue Fleming, was working for the University of the South Pacific, Institute of Rural
Development on a Women and Development programme. We'll use them to generate interest in the themes of water and migration
because with a rise in sea levels of 20-40cm over the next century Tuvalu could be uninhabitable.
We have acquired a collection of approximately 800 fossils and minerals from key sites around the UK. The collection was put together
by John Beck of Eyam, Derbyshire over the last 40 years and has exceptionally detailed locality information, making it very useful to
researchers. We have also acquired a Bronze Age Deer skull from Walney Island, Cumbria and a possibly Prehistoric dog skeleton from
Lancashire.
Loans
The Museum loaned a total of 909 specimens and objects in the year under review in 22 loans. Research loans were made to Vietnam,
Moscow, Novosibirsk (insects), Museum of Tropical Queensland (Australia) (bryozoa), Czech Republic (insects), Hiroshima University
(mosses) and Senckenberg (spiders).
Conservation
During the reporting period the team have conserved, mounted and prepared material for a series of exhibitions including the Ghanaian
Union exhibition, Siberia, The War on Nature, Romuald Hazoumè’s Flight of the Butterflies, the refurbishment of the Nature Discovery
gallery, the removal of the Mark Dion Bureau, and the installation of Rapa Nui. For the latter, a lengthy process of risk assessments,
building surveys and structural preparations was undertaken for the arrival and safe installation of the British Museum Moai Hava
sculpture on a long- term loan for 3 years. Towards the end of this period the team has worked on Gifts for the Gods (with National
Museums Liverpool and Kelvingrove Glasgow) and the challenge to construct an exhibition that could tour to the further 2 legs of the
tour in Glasgow and Liverpool. For all of the workshop activities a core team of casuals has been employed to support the team.
Conservation work continued on collections for national and international loans, internal exhibitions and outreach sessions. Crates were
built throughout the year for traveling loan objects and objects were conserved and mounts made for a large touring Egyptian loan,
Queens of Egypt to Japan. The team also supported institutions that do not have in-house object conservation expertise such as the
Museum of Wigan Life and Harrow School as well the Whitworth during the re-opening and the John Ryland’s University Library, and in
October 2014 work was undertaken for the Café Muse by the workshop.
There were episodes of moving and protecting cases and objects throughout the year to accommodate the window replacement project,
such as covering the Stigmarium fossil tree on the Fossils gallery and removing the very heavy basalt columns and boxing in the murals
on the fossils gallery. The Collection Care team supported the MIF High Tea in Wonderland to ensure the event was planned to run
smoothly and cause minimal risk to the collection.
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The House Services team have coordinated several extensive building related projects including window replacement and installation of
LED lighting in back-of-house areas. Dean Whiteside, House Services Manager reports against sustainability targets via Julie’s Bicycle.
Following a period as maternity cover, Preventive Conservator, Abigail Stevens returned to work 3 days per week.
Members of the team deliver training and lectures for Museum volunteers, AGMS, Art History and Archaeology students, Regional
Collections Care and Management Training, and to the public as part of the Museum Outreach Culture Shots week.
6 Make sure we manage and develop our resources, facilities and workforce to deliver our objectives
Development
This year the Museum has continued its success in securing funds from external sources. During the reporting period the following has
been raised:
Funder
Project
£
V & A Purchase Grant Fund
Art Fund Acquisitions Programme
Camelia Trust
Wellcome Trust (* application in partnership with colleagues
at KHN Centre for Biomedical Egyptology)
The Mercers’ Charitable Foundation
Zochonis Charitable Trust
British Antarctic Survey
Headley Trust
Anonymous Trust donor
North West Business Leadership Team
Acquisition of Mark Dion’s ‘Bureau’
Acquisition of Mark Dion’s ‘Bureau’
Whitworth Park exhibition
Gifts for the Gods exhibition
15,000
20,000
750
29,168
The Study
Museum Comes to School – Year 1
Siberia: At the Edge of the World exhibition
Making Monuments on Rapa Nui exhibition
General
Lever Prize 2015 (prize money for
Sustainability Summer School)
Making Monuments exhibition
Nature Discovery Garden
An Image of Islam
5,000
25,000
2,000
5,000
2,000
10,000
John and Ruth Howard Charitable Trust
D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
John Ellerman Foundation (* application in partnership with
colleagues at Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester City
2,500
4,137
97,882
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Galleries)
Alan Evans Memorial Trust
University of Manchester Learning Enrichment Fund
Individual donor
Individuals
FLS
Economica Institut Fuer
British Museum
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Natural History Museum
Central Manchester University Hospitals
Total
Nature Discovery Garden
The Study (resources for the Collections
Study Centre)
Conservation of wolf skeleton
Donations box income
Kekoldi Project (Andrew Gray)
Ambavis Project (Sam Sportun)
Making Monuments on Rapa Nui exhibition
(Bryan Sitch)
Happy Museum (Anna Bunney)
Real World Science (Emily Robinson)
Arts and Health (Wendy Gallagher)
1,000
5,000
2,000 + 500 Gift Aid
23,877.45
10,000
10,479.63
7,575
5,800
1,213.47
8,800
294,682.55
In addition, over the course of the year successful funding applications were also submitted to the following (although final notification of
the outcome was only received after the year had ended)
Funder
Project
£
Zochonis Charitable Trust
Total
Museum Comes to School – Year 2
25,000
25,000
Grant management and reporting has also featured significantly over the year, leading to the following grants - which had been awarded
prior to the beginning of this reporting period (and reported in previous APRs) - being drawn down:
Funder
Project
£
DCMS / Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement
Fund
Heritage Lottery Fund
Arts Council England Designation Development Fund
Henry Moore Foundation
The Study
200,000
Ancient Worlds – final payment
The Study
Acquisition of Mark Dion’s ‘Bureau’
54,590
39,500
10,000
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Wellcome Trust
Heritage Lottery Fund
Total
Fragmentary Ancestors exhibition – final
payment
IF Volunteering Programme (Kate Glynn)
1,594.80
39,613.67
345,298.47
Capital Fundraising
In addition to the above, a major priority for the Development Team over the past year has been preparation for the launch of fundraising
for The Courtyard. This proposed major new development will provide significantly expanded space for temporary exhibitions, a
permanent new South Asia Gallery developed in partnership with the British Museum, a much more visible entrance area which is
directly accessible from Oxford Road, and much-improved visitor facilities. The first major element of the fundraising programme will
commence with the submission of a First Round application to the Heritage Lottery Fund in December 2015.
Revenue Fundraising
Applications for revenue funding to external funders continue to be made to support exhibitions and learning programmes. This focuses
on specific projects that meet the objectives of the individual funders.
Building Management & Systems
The window replacement, roof repairs and stone restoration works are progressing well, with the 1885 Building now fully complete.
Significant work has been carried out in the workshop areas to improve work flow processes, material storage and safe handling of
materials. A project is underway to replace all of the back of house lighting with LED fittings.
Work is continuing on investigation into the upgrade of the lighting control system. The redevelopment of the 3rd floor area (The Study)
has allowed us to upgrade this section of the system as a standalone project, giving us clear direction for the remainder of the building.
Work to develop a greater in-house understanding of the BMS software and explore the potential of the system to assist with our energy
reduction targets is on-going.
Remedial work to the intruder alarm system and CCTV equipment has not progressed as planned. We are currently in discussion with
the Estates team about how best to progress this. We are currently planning a re-zoning and re-labelling of the system which will make it
considerably more user friendly and easier to operate for both newly trained and current users.
The fire detection system is overdue an upgrade, and we are awaiting confirmation of a start date for this.
A project to install wifi throughout the Museum is underway, it is expected that this will be completed in July 2015.
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Environmental Sustainability
Henry McGhie led and organised a two-day conference called Refloating the Ark, exploring how museums with natural history
collections can maximise their contribution towards environmental sustainability, by engaging effectively with the public and the scientific
research community. The conference was aimed at museum workers, environmental educators, conservationists, scientific researchers,
students, amateur naturalists, funders and the biological recording community. The Museums Journal in July 2015 held Manchester
Museum as an example of a museum communicating climate change relating to the Refloating the Ark Conference. “Some in the sector
are also debating how museums should communicate climate change to the public (see p11). This is a sensitive and sometimes
controversial issue, but institutions such as the Manchester Museum are leading the way in the sector in connecting the public and
scientists with natural history collections, and exploring how museums can contribute to environmental sustainability. The museum
recently held a two-day conference that looked at whether museums could and should promote environmental awareness and proenvironmental behaviour.”
The replacement of all back of house lights with LED fittings will contribute to a reduction in our electricity usage.
The on-going window replacement project will also contribute towards lower gas consumption.
We are continuing to only heat areas in use, work with the BMS system is being planned to automate this.
Commercial activities
A review was undertaken of the quality and effectiveness of the three main strands of our commercial work: events, shop and café. As a
result we have changed the pricing of our events to ensure they deliver the right level of return in relation to the input; we have jointly
appointed a commercial buyer and a merchandiser with the Whitworth to ensure that we have appropriate stock and better controls over
ordering. We also re-tendered the café contract and after a protracted procurement period the café is now run by Teacup, which has a
small number of well-regarded outlets in Manchester. At the time of writing the café is closed for a much-needed refurbishment and will
re-open in late November.
Training and Development
Head of Collections Henry McGhie undertook an ILM7 in executive coaching and mentoring and is listed on the University’s bank of
trained coaches. Curator of Earth Sciences David Gelsthorpe was selected for the Museums Association Transformers training
programme, with a project to develop Manchester Museum as a campaigning museum. In October 2014 he visited Russia with support
from the British Council to study best practice in Russian museums and evaluate the international tourist offer. He also visited the La
Brea Tar Pits and museum in California in June 2015, with funding from the Jonathan Rufford Curatorial Grants Scheme. Curator of
Botany Rachel Webster was awarded a place on the Greater Manchester Museums Group Leadership Development Programme.
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Lindsey Loughtman and Rachel Webster became ‘Dementia Friends’. Lindsey Loughtman undertook a week-long placement to the
Natural History Museum in March, as part of their UK Museum Pilot Placement Scheme aiming to share curatorial best practice, and to
develop ideas around citizen science and models for mass-participation in curatorial work. Henry McGhie worked with the Natural
History Museum to co-develop a ‘universal natural history curator’ internship.
Chad McGitchie and the wider visitor team have developed new induction and staff training programmes. This includes wide-ranging
mental health and dementia friends training and extensive first aid training. Audio description training provided by Mnds Eye and
VocalEyes has been especially successful and the gallery now has online audio description of the spaces and Welcome (devised & read
by Anne Hornsby Director of MindsEye) and is developing weekly audio described tours for the public.
Recruitment
We have developed a new recruitment system to ensure we reach more diverse candidates and local people. This includes a series of
open days, group interviews (tasks & presentations) + individual interviews. Previous recruitment drives from 2012-2013 produced 8-10
applications under the ‘two ticks’ disability guaranteed interview scheme per organisation. In 2014 the Museum Visitor Team
opportunities attracted 36 (360% increase) applications under the ‘two ticks’ disability guaranteed interview scheme. We interviewed 19
candidates from these. The Access/Disability Awareness training was co-developed with Julie Ryder Director of HearFirst to tailor
session for Visitor facing teams in the museums and gallery. Significantly, we have been shortlisted for a RIDI (Recruitment Industry
Disability Initiative) award.
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THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM
PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Public Engagement
a) Annual number of visits
b) Contacts with school age
children
Annual increases in, and broadening of, participation in educational programmes and public visits to
the Manchester Museum
2010/11 2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
%
Comment
change
349,273 367,082
388,613
425,369
442,202
+3.96% Numbers are again the highest in
the 125 year history of the
Museum
25,616
19,549
25,791
31,301
29,872
-4.56%
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
c) Number of contacts with
people from priority groups
d) Definition of priority
groups and further
breakdown of data (as
available and appropriate)
133,422
132,063
108,847
137,924
152,562
%
change
+10.61%
n/a
n/a
BME 15%
Disabled 6%
C2DE 17%
e) Number of UoM student
volunteers
f) Number of staff who are
school governors
Environment
n/a
n/a
24
BME
18%
Disabled
7%
C2DE
19%
47
BME
11%
Disabled
9%
C2DE
21%
83
BME
-7%
Disabled
+2%
C2DE
+2%
77%
n/a
n/a
2
2
2
0
We aim to have no more than
30,000 visits to maintain quality
Social Responsibility
g) Number of environmental
sustainability enthusiasts
h) Number of green impact
2012/13
Actual
3
(Shared with
WAG)
1
2013/14
Actual
1
2014/15
Actual
1
2014/15
Target
1
2015/16
Target
1
1
1
1
1
Comment
Priority grounds are defined as
BME, disabled and lower socioeconomic groups. Decrease in
BME visits are unexplained and
will be investigated as part of
review of data collection
Result of 4 targeted recruitment
drives
Comment
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teams
Customer Satisfaction
i) Results of annual user
satisfaction surveys
Academic Engagement
j) Number of research
activities drawing on
collections including
contribution to publications,
seminars, partnerships, PhD
supervision etc
k) Number of teaching
courses drawing on
collections/staff (to include
report on course unit survey
scores on which Museum
staff teach)
l) Number of students
involved in research and
teaching activities
Annual increase in levels of satisfaction in users of the Manchester Museum
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
%
change
96% Very or
98% Very
97% Very 98% Very or
98% Very
Fairly Satisfied
or Fairly
or Fairly
Fairly Satisfied
or Fairly
0%
Satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied
Comment
Annual increase in levels of teaching and research use of the Manchester Museum
2010/11
2011/12
2012/1
3
2,917
2013/14
2014/15
1,288
1,817
59
3,130
%
change
+5%
3,462
3,635
98
(70
UoM; 19
other)
123
(96
UoM;
27
other)
151
165
(117 UoM;
48 other)
+9%
4,315
5,915
6,802
7,074
+4%
Comment
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THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Performance Indicator
Staff
m) Staffing summary: headcount (FTE)
Admin & management
Clerical
Computing/IT
Manual/craft
Technical
Total
Achievement
2012/13
20
(19.0
FTE)
30 (27.34
FTE)
1
(1.00
FTE)
4
(3.71
FTE)
11 (10.53
FTE)
66 (61.58
FTE)
2013/14
22
(21.0
FTE)
33 (30.49
FTE)
1
(1.00
FTE)
1
(0.71
FTE)
14 (13.39
FTE)
71 (66.59
FTE)
Comment (include target where
appropriate)
2014/15
23
(22.4
FTE)
39 (31.85
FTE)
1
(1.00
FTE)
0
(0.0
FTE)
13 (12.40
FTE)
76
(67.65FTE)
Financial Management
n) Confirmation of managing within budget
o) Detailed financial statement, including
breakdown of income sources and external
grants generated, and commentary
p) Details of new grants awarded in 2014/15
See below
See above
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR 2014/2015
Manchester Museum
Management Accounts
31 July 2015
Cumulative
Actual Budget Variance
£'000
£'000
£'000
HEFCE Income
Tuition Fees
Endowment Income
Other Income
Investment Income
Total Income
1,369
80
36
1,497
47
3,029
1,402
0
24
1,027
30
2,482
-33
80
12
471
17
547
Pay
Non-Pay
Total Expenditure
2,578
1,270
3,848
2,545
935
3,480
-33
-335
-368
-819
-998
179
32
20
-11
-851
-1,019
168
Net Cost
Endowments Adjustment
Net Cost After Endowment
Adjustment
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SUMMARY OF 2014/2015
The Museum reports an overall positive variance for the financial year of £168k.
The large positive variance is explained through the capital projects the Museum is undertaking with Estates.
The Museum is contributing part of its Exhibition budget towards the redevelopment of the 3rd Floor project.
The Museum is also paying the initial architect fees for a possible project extending the temporary exhibtion space.
Income
The Museum reports income received to budget as a favourable variance of £547k.
HEFCE Income and Tuition Fees
The Museum received a greater than expected allocation of CFTA income.
Endowment Income
No material variance recorded.
Other Income
Other Income has two elements: other grants and the commerical and sundry income of the Museum.
Other grant income is £390k above budget and includes funding matched to expenditure made on behalf of the Manchester Partnership with Manch
Gallery.
Sundry income is £81k above budget and includes the funding received to purchase the Mark Dion art installation.
Investment Income
No material variance recorded.
Expenditure
The Museum reports expenditure incurred as an adverse variance of £368k.
Pay Costs
Pay Costs are £33k over budget, which is covered by external funding.
Non-Pay Costs
Non-Pay Costs are £335k over budget, of which the majority is covered by the additional funding as shown in Other Income.
Non-Pay costs includes expenditure incurred on behalf of the Manchester Partnership with Manchester Art Gallery & Whitworth.
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RISK STATEMENT – inserted
University of Manchester
Risk Register
Level: School
The Manchester Museum
Date
Aug-15
Risk
Toward 2020
Risk Owner
Implications. Failure
to achieve… directly
(indirectly)
Impact
Likelihood
Net Rank
Risk
Change
since last
report
Risk Indicators
Current Management Processes and Mitigating
Activities
Specific Mitigating Due Date
Actions
Action Owner
Level of funding allocated by
HEFCE
HE Green paper proposes abolition of HEFCE
University Museums Group is formal consultee on
future funding. Current year is flat funding. UMG is
continuing to lobby and make the case.
UMG
Ongoing
communication with
HEFCE
Director
The museum is actively promoting a culture of safe
working, ensuring staff and volunteers receive
appropriate H & S and child protection training,
managers are pro-active in managing risk and
regularly review and where necessary update risk
assessments and method statements to maintain a safe
environment for all users and staff
Health and Safety
Quarterly
committee mitigates
risks, monitors
reported data and
takes actions
Director
Level of funding for 2015-18 now known: cut of 2% Quarterly meetings Quarterly
on 2014-15 confirmed: can be absorbed
with Arts Council to
track progress;
annual report
Director
The museum is actively promoting a culture of safe
working, ensuring staff and volunteers receive
appropriate H & S and child protection training,
managers are pro-active in managing risk and
regularly review and where necessary update risk
assessments and method statements to maintain a safe
environment for all users and staff
Director is committed to staying for at least 5 more
years to see through gallery changes; job continues to
be stimulating
Health and Safety
Quarterly
committee mitigates
risks, monitors
reported data and
takes actions
Director
None
Deputy President
Build in community consultation to every project;
undertake explicit risk assessment on this issue; train
key staff in dealing with difficult issues and in
conflict resolution; develop advocacy campaign
around what we are trying to achieve.
Director reviews
Quarterly
exhibition and public
programme and
takes advice from
line manager where
necessary; Health &
Safety committee
reviews risks
quarterly; child
protection
procedures reviewed
as part of this.
Loss of HEFCE special funding
1
HEFCE provides a separate strand of funding
Goals 1,2,3; Enabling
for key university museums and galleries. This goals 1, 2, 4, 6
is currently the largest single source of funding
for the Museum
2 Failure of Health and Safety systems and
procedures
Director
High
4
Likely
4
16
1
Increased
risk
The Museum attracts approximately 440K
Goals 2 & 3; Enabling Director
visitors a year and has a duty of care to maintain goals 2, 3, 4
a safe environment for all users and staff.
Failure to do so could lead to increase in
number of injuries or risks to visitors, staff and
volunteers, including children and vulnerable
adults.
3. Decline in Arts Council Funding
High
4
Possible
2
8
2
No change Number of injuries and serious
near misses to visitors, staff and
volunteers; number of incidents
relating to children or vulnerable
adults; indices of staff well being.
Mediu
m
2
Probable
4
8
3
High
4
Possible
2
8
4
No change Number of injuries and serious
near misses to visitors, staff and
volunteers; number of incidents
relating to children or vulnerable
adults; indices of staff well being.
Arts Council is providing major strand of
Goals 1,2,3; Enabling
support, so decline in funding would be critical goals 1,2,6
Director
Change
Quarterly reports and feedback;
levels of funding awarded
4 Failure of Health and Safety systems and
procedures
5
The Museum attracts approximately 380K
Goals 2 & 3; Enabling Director
visitors a year and has a duty of care to maintain goals 2, 3, 4
a safe environment for all users and staff.
Failure to do so could lead to increase in
number of injuries or risks to visitors, staff and
volunteers, including children and vulnerable
adults.
Departure of Director
Goals 1, 2, 3
Director
Mediu
m
3 Possible
2
6
5
No change None -- other than one or both
Directors announcing departure
Mediu
m
3 Possible
2
6
6
No change Complaints by members of the
public; critical media coverage
Management arrangements for Museum and
Whitworth mean that the two Directors have to
work extremely closely together so that shared
staff are managed effectively. This works
because of the relationship between the two
Directors. If one or both left, management
arrangements would need to be reviewed.
6
Damage to reputation of the Museum
The Museum is undertaking innovative and
Goals 2, 3; Enabling
experimental work, to re-think the role of the
goals2,3, 4
university museum. This involves taking risks,
and accepting that sometimes controversy will
be generated. Bad publicity, particularly in
relation to a failure of duty of care or inadequate
community engagement, could jeopardise future
programmes, and harm the image and reputation
of the Museum and University.
Director
N/A
Director
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University of Manchester
Risk Register
Level: School
The Manchester Museum
Date
Aug-15
Risk
Toward 2020
Risk Owner
Implications. Failure
to achieve… directly
(indirectly)
Impact
Likelihood
Net Rank
Risk
Change
since last
report
Risk Indicators
Current Management Processes and Mitigating
Activities
Specific Mitigating Due Date
Actions
No change
Attempted break-ins
Spate of museum thefts across country has increased
risk. Input from crime prevention team at GMP; New
staff structure provides a dedicated House Services
and security team acoss Museum and Gallery
Security
improvements
instigated following
review; and in light
of increased thefts
from museums
Monitoring and reporting of
"near-misses"
External assessment
Ongoing staff training for front of house
Action Owner
7 Theft or other human damage to collections
The Museum houses valuable collections that Goals 1,2,3
are vulnerable to theft and/or accidental damage
Director
Mediu
m
3
Possible
3
6
7
Improved security in House Services
place from Dec
Manager
2012; monitoring is
ongoing
Annual assessment by Arts
Council Security Advisor
8
Damage to collections through physical
means (fire, water, pests)
Goals 1, 2, 3
Director
High
4 Rare
1
4
7 No change
Significant damage to a collection/collections
would have a major impact on the Museum's
ability to deliver core activities and would
represent major reputational damage to the
University.
Monitoring reports on
environmental/security/heating/pe
sts
Incidents recorded by House
Services Manager/Estates
colleagues
Hard infrastructural improvements via annual Estates annual Estates
programme
programme
Ongoing
House services
manager
Director
Introduction of dedicated cleaning service for the
Museum (training completed)
Pest management programme, monitored annually
Replacement of obsolete fire and security systems
9 Decline in support from University
University is the major stakeholder in the
Museum so any loss of support would be
critical
Goals 1, 2, 3; Enabling Director
goals 1, 2, 4,6
High
4
Rare
1
4
9
No change APR feedback and actions; level Museum annual work plan is keyed into University
of funding awarded
priorities; Deputy President is line manager and
provides regular feedback
Regular feedback
from Deputy
President
Quarterly
Small decline in visitors could be
Goal 3; Enabling goal 2 Director
accommodated if quality of visit is maintained.
Major fall would inflict reputational damage
and reduce commercial income.Visitor numbers
are important, but all recent targets have been
exceeded.
11 Decline in academic use of collections and
Museum
Low
1
Rare
1
2
10
No change Visitor numbers collected daily;
full review undertaken monthly
Maintain excellent
programme of
activities as outlined
in Work Plan
Reviewed every 6
Director
weeks by Leadership
Team; visitor
numbers reported
monthly
Mediu
m
2
Rare
1
2
11
No change Numbers of UG & PGT courses Meet targets for academic engagement set out in
drawing on museum collections current plan, including involvement of academics in
and staff; feedback from courses; all major projects
feedback from academics using
Museum for impact agenda
Ensure Museum is
involved in
University College
courses
Ongoing
Head of Collections
discussions; courses
in place from Sept
2013 onwards
Low
1
Possible
2
2
12
No change Meeting of deadlines for targets
and deadlines; sickness levels;
staff turnover.
6 weekly review of
progress against
plan; monthly
monitoring of
sickness absence
6 weekly and
monthly reviews
10 Fall in Visitor Numbers
It is essential that the Museum engages with the Goals 1, 2, 3; Enabling Head of
academic mission of the University. Failure to goals 1, 2, 3
Collections
do this would lead to decline in support from
university, including possible financial
reduction.
Continue current initiatives which have led to great
rises in numbers. Last year broke 400,000 for first
time in history.
12 Staff capacity to meet demand for academic
and public work
Museum has to meet several agendas from a
Goals 1, 2, 3; Enabling Director
variety of funding bodies, including University, goals 1, 2, 3
HEFCE, Arts Council, Heritage Lottery Fund. If
staff spread themselves too thinly and do not
meet demands placed on them, delivery of
targets will be affected.
Restructuring and sharing of services with the
Whitworth has ensured all services continue at an
acceptable level, while the Arts Council funded
partnership with Manchester Art Gallery has
increeased capacity. Museum has own action plan and
progress is monitored 6 weekly and inforrmally
Director
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COMPLIANCE STATEMENT
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Number of positive
responses
% Positive response
4
100%
Key:
4
100%
4
100%
Positive
3
75%
4
100%
Negative
4
100%
What percentage of staff has provided a Register of Interests return? (inc. nil
returns)
I understand my legal and management responsibilities for Health & Safety
and related matters, as set out in the University's Health & Safety Policy.
Have all staff who handle person identifying data (such as personal data
related to staff, students and research participants) completed the
University's online Data Protection course?
Does your Operational Plan contribute to the University's Strategy for
Environmental Sustainability?
Are you satisfied that your authority to spend (and those exercising it on your
behalf) is not compromised by any conflict of interest?
Are you satisfied that all necessary internal control processes are in place to
ensure that any significant variances from your approved budget can be
properly identified and controlled ?
Are you confident that you understand your financial management
responsibilities?
Table 4
2015 Returns from Directors of the Manchester
Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of
Manchester Library and Jodrell Bank Discovery
Centre
Manchester Museum
95
For Cultural Assets
Average
96%
N/A
STAFF SURVEY RESULTS AND ACTION PLAN
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Manchester
Museum Staff
Survey
Questions
Q1.1TheUniversity
isagoodplaceto
work
Q1.4I
feel
value
dby
the
peopl
eI
work
with
Q1.10
Overall,
Iam
satisfie
dwith
myjob.
98
94
82
82
92
82
2015
Manchester Museum Total
University Total
Manchester Museum Total
University Total
2020 Target
98
94
89
80
86
82
80
least 10 percentage
than the University score
At
points better
5-10 percentage points worse than the University score
At least 10 percentage points worse than the University score
Q10.3
More
could
be
done
tohelp
staff
prepar
efor
and
cope
with
change
Q10.5I
believe
positive
action
willbe
taken
asa
result
ofthis
survey.
Respons
erate
(%)
Q2.6Onthe
whole,
communicatio
ninthe
Universityis
effective
Q4.6My
immediat
eline
manager
helpsme
finda
good
work-life
balance
Q5.1Have
youhadan
individual
performanc
eand
developmen
treviewor
probation
reviewin
thelast12
months?
Q7.9Ifeel
stressedat
work
('Always',
'Frequently'
and
'Occasionally'
)
Q8.5(c)I
feelthe
University
actsfairly
withregard
to
rewarding
exceptional
performanc
e
77
63
2013
76
67
79
61
87
70
74
63
87
91
88
64
68
59
91
93
78
77
48
56
67
63
74
78
68%
70%
78
59
76%
71%
50%
MANCHESTER MUSEUM STAFF SURVEY ACTION PLAN 2015:
Name of: Faculty / School / Directorate / Organisational Unit: Manchester Museum
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Name of Author: Nicola Walker
Date: 24 July 2015
Notes:
• Your plan should record those actions which respond directly to local findings, it should list no more than 3-5 achievable actions
overall
•
You may wish to include items from your Staff Survey 2013 outcomes which are still relevant and in progress
•
Further advice on action planning is available in the supporting document: Staff Survey 2015: Manager’s Guidance for Action
Planning
Please record your
Person
principal actions points Responsible
Summary
survey:
feedback
Timescale
Progress and Evaluation
Include dates of meetings in
progress, reports and
details of how staff are
engaged in the process
Action
Completed
Notes
from Q9-2 I have a comfortable work space (including temperature, lighting, etc.) (MM score 69
against UoM score 78, MM 2015 score of 69 against 2013 score of 70, a % change downwards
of 1%)
Look at improvements that could be made to Museum office accommodation
of
Action/description
planned activity:
• Session at a Staff
Forum’ to generate
ideas for improvements
for general staff facilities
and office spaces
• Draw up timetable
for improvements to
staff facilities and
offices and
implement
• Include lessons
learnt session re
Nick
Merriman
Spring
2016
Dean
Whiteside
Spring
2016
Nicola
Walker
Sept 2016
Staff forum date in spring 2016
tbc
Session with JLT (MM and
WAG)
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temporary office
accommodation in
Courtyard Project
planning
Summary feedback from
survey:
Q10-3 I do not feel more could be done to help staff prepare for and cope with change (MM
score 77 against UoM score 78, MM 2015 score of 22 against 2013 score of 26, a % change
downwards of 4%)
Investigate ways in which change (in particular during the forthcoming building project) is
managed and put in place a change management strategy
Action/description of
planned activity:
• Discuss change
management at LT
level
• Investigate options
for external training
for all staff and
implement as
required
• Organise series of
staff consultation
workshops alongside
Courtyard Project
development and
delivery stages
Summary
survey:
feedback
Action/description
planned activity:
Nick
Merriman
Spring
2016
Date tbc
Nick
Merriman
Spring
2016
Date tbc
Nicola
Walker
Spring
2016
Throughout
Dates tbc
project
period
from Q10-5 I believe positive action will be taken as a result of this survey (MM score 67 against
UoM score 63, MM 2015 score of 67 against 2013 score of 78, a % change downwards of 11%)
Provide Museum staff with a Staff Survey feedback session highlighting how positive action
will be taken
of
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•
•
•
Organise Staff
Survey feedback
session on overall
survey results
Outline plans for
action planning and
commitment to
positive action
Share details of
specific areas for
improvement with LT
Summary
survey:
feedback
Nick
Merriman
Oct 2015
Staff Forum Date tbc
Nick
Merriman
Oct 2015
Ditto
Nick
Merriman
Oct 2015
LT meeting Date tbc
from Q8-2 Are you aware of the ‘We Get it’ zero tolerance to bullying and harassment campaign?
(MM score 65 against UoM score 74)
Provide Museum staff with information about the ‘We Get it’ zero tolerance to bullying and
harassment campaign
of
Action/description
planned activity:
• Provide information
to all staff at a Staff
Forum and follow up
with email and link to
UoM information
• Include information
and links within new
staff induction
briefings
Nicola
Walker
Dec 2015
Dean
Whiteside
Dec 2015
Staff Forum Date tbc
APPENDICES
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Appendix 1:
Esteem measures
• Manchester Museum won NWBLT Lever Prize for Real Life Science (secondary programme). Awarded £10,000.
• Successful application to Happy Museum to develop sustainable programme focusing on campaigning in museums
• Inspiring Futures programme was shortlisted for Spirit of Manchester Partnership award.
• Hosted the North West Adult Learners’ Week Awards Health and Social Care 2015 with Health Education North West.
• Awarded £25,000 from Zochonis Charitable Trust to develop Primary School Outreach programme (inflatable museum!)
• Awarded second year funding (£7,000), 'Art of Identity KS3 Humanities Programme' from Children and the Arts.
Nick Merriman, Director
• Chair of Collections Trust
• Chair of Rothesay Pavilion Charity
• Member of National Museum Directors’ Conference
• Member of Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Capital Committee
Jo Beggs, Head of Development for the Manchester Museums Partnership & Steve Walsh, Head of Devlopment
• Committee member and Steve Walsh (Head of Development, Manchester Museum) is a member of the North West Development
Network, a rapidly growing network for development professionals from across the cultural sector in the region. The group has
continued to offer excellent training and networking opportunities for the Development Team this year. Jo Beggs and Steve Walsh
are both also members of the Capital Development Network, a networking forum run by Museum Development North West and
the Heritage Lottery Fund, for cultural organisations undertaking capital projects.
•
Jo Beggs is Northern representative to the National Committee of Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy. Steve Walsh is an associate
member of the Institute of Fundraising.
•
Jo Beggs and Steve Walsh represent the Museum at the University’s Development Forum, run in conjunction with the Division of
Development and Alumni Relations, which brings together DDAR and cultural assets development staff on a quarterly basis to
share prospect information and coordinate approaches to potential funders. Over the course of the past year, the team worked
closely with DDAR to support the success of the University’s inaugural Celebration of Philanthropy Day in March and ensure that
the Museum was fully represented. This included: liaison with Museum donors regarding their potential induction into the Beyer
Circle; arranging curator-led tours of the Museum for donors and hosting an extremely popular stand featuring the work of the
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Museum’s Vivarium at the Philanthropy Showcase in University Place (which led DDAR colleagues to reflect that, “the Showcase
was an absolute hit with our guests and the success of it was in no small part down to the Manchester Museum and Vivarium.”)
•
The Museum is also continuing to work with DDAR to highlight the role of donations from alumni and friends of the University,
following our receipt of a grant from the University’s Learning Enrichment Fund towards improved study facilities within the
Museum’s new Collections Study Centre.
•
Both Jo Beggs and Steve Walsh regularly respond to requests from other cultural venues and heritage organisations across the
UK, to share advice and experiences in good practice in development. Over the past year, this has included: Central Manchester
University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; British Museum Future Curators; Bristol Museums; 24:7 Theatre; MBA student from
MBS; FACT; The National Football Museum, The Geffrye Museum.
•
Jo Beggs is a Board Member at Contact Theatre, Manchester.
•
The Museum’s receipt of 2015’s Lever Prize has enabled the Museum to work individually with the membership of the North West
Business Leadership Team, to explore the potential for a range of future collaborative opportunities. In addition, funder visits to
the Museum over the past year have included: Arts Council England, The Zochonis Charitable Trust, The Wolfson Foundation,
The Headley Trust (of the Sainsbury Family Trusts); The John Ellerman Foundation; as well as individual donors.
Nicola Walker, Head of Collections Care and Access
• Collection Care representative at the UK Heads of Conservation / Facilities Managers Network
• Collection Care / Collections Management representative at the NMDC Heads of Collections Management Network
• Judge on the ICON Conservation Awards, Student Conservator of the Year 2015 screening panel
• Whitworth representative on UoM Sustainability team Staff Signature working group
• IAMFA Europe joint IAMFA / Conservators meeting, London 14-15 May 2015
Irit Narkiss, Conservator
• Icon CPD Review reader
• Icon Accreditation Pathway mentor
• Judge on the ICON Conservation Awards, Conservation in the Community 2015 screening panel
• Risky Business? Dealing with damage to collections through active use, at Touchy Feely, Icon Care of Collections Group
Sam Sportun, Collection Care Manager
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Collection Care & Conservation of Mixed Collections, Key note at Annual School Archivist group conference at Bolton School, 22
June 2015
Sam Sportun and Stephen Devine - Understanding Egyptian collections Innovative display and research projects in museums,
Ancient Worlds: Open Data, Mobile Web, Haptics, Digital Touch, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, September 1-2,
2014
Sam Sportun attended Symposium at the British Museum on The care and conservation of human remains with a focus on
natural mummies on 20th and 21st April 2015.
Sam Sportun working on 2 year Erasmus + funded project. The project AMBAVis aims to be a driving force for the development
and the dissemination of tactile and 3D practices in museums, in order to improve cultural access for blind and visually impaired
People. Working with European partners Economica in Vienna; Austrian Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted (BSVÖ);
German Association for Blind and Visually Impaired People (DBSV e.V.); Trnka n.o. (Slovakia); Österreichische Galerie
Belvedere Vienna and Center for Virtual Reality and Visualisation (VRVis) in Vienna. As part of this project visited Henshaws Arts
& Crafts Centre in Knaresborough and attended two project workshop meetings – both here and in Vienna.
Sam Sportun was awarded a STFC Small Award, working in collaboration with Dr Nick Edwards and Dr Jennifer Anne (ICAL Interdisciplinary Centre for Ancient Life ) ‘Bringing research to life: Recreating a 3D stone Archaeopteryx fossil as a digital
interactive; where cutting edge science can be released through touch’
Sam Sportun is near the completion of a Click Curate Connect grant funded project awarded by Leicestershire County Council to
create a digital touch interactive for use in sessions for visitors with learning disabilities. This work forms part of the Click;
Connect; Curate; Create project exploring how LCC can use digital content and technology to increase engagement with museum
collections. She is continuing her part-time practice-based PhD to produce 3D touch-sensitive replicas at Loughborough
University
Supported sessions for Venture Arts and Jo Lisle (volunteer with cerebral palsy) within Conservation undertaking practical
sessions
Julie’s Bicycle – ACE sustainability partnership
MAST - Manchester Arts Sustainability Team
Esme Ward, Head of Learning and Engagement:
• Member of Advisory Board National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing
• Founding member of National Age Friendly Museums Network, led by British Museum. Successful funding application to Baring
Foundation to extend this work across UK.
• Advisor on Dementia Friendly Culture, Alzheimers Society Arts Group, part of
Governments’ Dementia Challenge.
• Strategic Lead for Culture, Age Friendly Senior Strategy Group, Manchester City Council
• Personal and team commendation for Outstanding Public Engagement, University of Manchester Social Responsibility Awards
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Invited to attend week-long Arts and Ageing Society Research Visit to Japan, funded by British Council, Baring Foundation and
Gulbenkian Foundation.
Age Collective founding member, successful bid to Baring Foundation to develop work and extend reach across UK.
Esme sits on several other advisory groups and boards, including University’s Community Engagement Strategy Group and Dementia
Friendly Steering group. She advises on national policy development, including attending roundtable events on the future of cultural
education, review of priorities for Children and Young People (Arts Council) and Alzheimers Society-led dementia friendly culture
review.
She is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences and seminars, including;
Tate International Learning Research event; Playful in execution, serious in intent; Developing a research culture in learning and
engagement at the Whitworth and Manchester Museum, Tate London.
Reaching new Audiences, Arts Marketing Association, Birmingham.
The Future of Cultural Education, curious minds/Arts Council, University of Lancaster.
Chad McGitchie, Head of Visitor Team and Visitor Team staff:
• Visitor Studies Group (VSG) Committee member
• Shortlisted for a RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative) award http://www.ridiawards.com/finalists/
Andrea Winn, Curator of Community Exhibitions:
• Speaker at the High Five for Volunteers conference in Cumbria, June 2016.
• Sits on the Erasmus + Steering group for European funding programmes for adults learning.
• Participated in Baring-funded MCC Age Friendly enquiry visit to Swansea.
Wendy Gallagher, Arts and Health Programme Manager:
• Member of steering panel and advisory group for SICK! Festival
• Member of steering group for Dementia Strategy: Raising Standards of Care and Promoting Activities, Central Manchester
University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• Successful application for Wendy Gallagher to study MSc Dementia Care, funded by NHS.
• Speaker at ENGAGE conference Liverpool Sept 2014
• 10 days consultancy work at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore focused on setting up engagement programmes for
people with dementia and their carers.
Anna Bunney, Engagement Manager:
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Received University of Manchester Social Responsibility Award for Sustained Contribution to Public Engagement
Andrew Gray, Curator of Herpetology:
• Awarded special award for outstanding contribution to public engagement, University of Manchester Social Responsibility Awards.
(The Lemur Frog Project, conceived, initiated, developed and managed by Andrew Gray was acknowledged as a flagship
international conservation project).
• Museum hosted the AGM of the British Herpetological Society with Andrew as key speaker (March 2015).
• AG accompanied Claes Andren, Nordens Ark’s (Sweden) Scientific Director to Costa Rica and introduced him to other project
partners including the Organisation for Tropical Studies Director Carlos de la Rosa and Costa Rican Amphibian Centre (CRARC)
Director Brian Kubicki. Full funding for a new research Centre was thus obtained and the station built.
• Museum receives recognition in the form of highly complimentary Note Verbale from Costa Rican Embassy in London notifying of
Ambassadors support for furthering collaborations with Costa Rican museums and Universities linked to the amphibian
conservation work being carried out in the museum’s Vivarium.
• Adam Bland was supported with a consortium grant to visit the Atlanta botanical gardens, USA where he spent a week in
February 2015 working within their Amphibian Conservation department.
Menaka Munro, Learning Manager:
• Publication: Creating an ‘Emporium of Wonder’ at Manchester Museum, in Patrick Blessinger , John M. Carfora (ed.) Inquirybased Learning for Faculty and Institutional Development: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators (Innovations in
Higher EducationTeaching and Learning, Volume 1) Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2014
• Continuing in the role of Impact Champion and on Advisory Board for LuCID (ESRC International Centre for Language and
Communicative Development).
• Invitation to be advisor on bid to the Nuffield Foundation for 'Developing and evaluating strategies in schools and museums for
teaching evolution' from the Institute of Education, University of Reading.
Elaine Bates, Early Years Coordinator:
• Vice chair of Governors at Martenscroft Nursery school and children’s centre and a member of the University governor group
(UMSGI)
• Research visits from Dallas Museum of Art and Melbourne Museum to look at early years practice.
Victoria Grant, Family Programme Coordinator:
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Sits on advisory board for Family Arts Festival North West.
Speaker at Museums Development North West Conference on Museum’s Autism work and at Leadership programme on
engaging visitors in sustainability.
Received University of Manchester Social Responsibility Award for Sustained Contribution to Public Engagement
Henry McGhie, Head of Collections:
• Adviser to the University of Oslo Museum Studies Programme
• Invited to participate in a workshop on far-reaching interdisiplinarity in Spitzbergen, funded by the Norwegian Research Council
• Invited to speak at the University of Oslo on environmental sustainability and museums
• Treasurer of the University Museums’ Group
• Heads the North West Natural History Museums’ Partnership
• Accreditation mentor (natural history) for the Whitaker in Rossendale
Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan:
• North West rep for the ACCES (Egypt and Sudan SSN
• Invited to give a lecture at the University of Basel on Egyptian texts (May 2014) and the British Museum Sackler Colloquium on
‘Statuary in Context’ (July 2016)
Bryan Sitch, Deputy Head of Collections:
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London)
• Serves on Committee of the Society for Museum Archaeology
• Hon Secretary of Medieval Section of Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Appendix 2: Visitor Statistics for HEFCE
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Annual monitoring statement 2015
HEFCE funding for university museums and galleries
1) For 2014-15 your HEI received £1,345,500 in museums and galleries funding to support one or more museums. For each funded
museum, where available, provide the following information:
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number of higher education visits: 1675
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number of further education visits: 1410
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number of HEI courses drawing on the collection: 165 (117 U of M, 48 elsewhere)
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number of loans made (including number of items and whether national or international): 22 loans (of which 1 is international)
and totals 909 specimens/objects
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percentage of collection documented: 99%
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number of website visits: 1,385,977 page views plus 1,079,330 unique page views
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number of exhibitions: 8
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number of pupils on school visits: 28,462
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number of public events: 487 events (number of visitors 95,008).
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number of visitors: 442,202
Appendix 3: Publications by Museum staff
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A culture of inquiry
The Manchester Museum is one of the UK’s great museums. Its collections include
4.8 million objects and specimens, both natural sciences and humanities. The
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collections are formally recognized by the UK government as being of national and
international significance. These are experienced by 450,000 visitors each year, most
of whom come from the North West. Our collections, exhibitions and practices form
the basis of thousands of enquiries and investigations each year, some of which result
in publications in books, journals and magazines.
This brochure is intended to provide a listing of publications known to have drawn on
our Museum for the period 2005-14, whether by professional researchers, enthusiasts
and amateurs (in the original sense of the word, as someone who loves their subject
of choice). No doubt some publications have been missed out, especially those in
more obscure locations. Nevertheless, this brochure is a celebration of the diversity of
ways in which our Museum contributes to knowledge, and appreciation of the world
and its inhabitants, as a tool for understanding and a catalyst for creative thinking.
The Museum is unusual in several respects. Firstly, it combines a position as the UK’s
largest university museum along with a position as Manchester’s civic museum in the
traditional model. This hybrid position has been a persistent character of the Museum
since it first opened in 1888, and stems from the University of Manchester’s longstanding aspirations as being a university that is accessible to the public and its local
community, providing access to the University’s collections, and using them to inspire,
educate and entertain the public. While some of the language and ways that this is
realized have changed over the years, this core purpose has not. It means that we
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have a lot of experience of providing access to collections, whether through
exhibitions and temporary exhibitions or through providing access to our stored
collections.
Secondly, the Museum combines natural sciences and humanities collections. We use
this to encourage people to explore the past, present and future of the earth and its
inhabitants. We pride ourselves in making collections and collections-related
knowledge available, whether to worldwide researchers, students in the University of
Manchester and elsewhere, to private enthusiasts, or to schoolchildren. Research is
not something that is only done by researchers, but by anyone with curiosity
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about the world, and the determination to find out more. We want to make it easy for
people to take their studies further and we hope this brochure will encourage and
inspire people to go on their own journeys of discovery, and further our collective
understanding of the world around us.
General publications... 3Archaeology (& Numismatics)... 5Botany...
11Earth sciences... 22Egyptology... 28Entomology... 33Exhibitions, events
and engagement... 44 Living cultures collections (& Archery)... 48
Museum practice... 50Zoology... 52-61
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GENERAL
Alberti, S. J. M. M. (2006). Molluscs, mummies and moon rock: the Manchester Museum and
Manchester science. Manchester Region History Review, 18, 130.
Alberti, S. J. J. M. (2009). Nature and Culture: objects, disciplines and the Manchester Museum.
Manchester University Press, Manchester.
Alberti, S. J. (2011). The Status of Museums: Authority, Identity, and Material Culture.
Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, 51.
Gilbert, A. D. (2010). Evoking humanity: Reflections on the importance of university museums
and collections. Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the International Committee of ICOM for
University Museums and Collections (UMAC), Manchester, 16th–20th September 2008, 1-4
Hussey, J. (2008). Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates: Liverpool Waterfront in the Days of the
Confederacy. Countyvise Ltd.
Kitson, P. J. (2011). The Strange Case of Dr White and Mr De Quincey: Manchester, Medicine
and Romantic Theories of Biological Racism. Romanticism, 17(3), 278- 287.
Logunov, D. V. & Merriman, N. (eds.) (2012). Manchester Museum, Window to the World.
University of Liverpool Press, Liverpool.
Lucas, P. (2007). Charles Darwin,“little Dawkins” and the platycnemic Yale men: introducing a
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bioarchaeological tale of the descent of man. Archives of natural history, 34(2), 318-345.
Macleod, C. (2010). Samuel JMM Alberti, Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the
Manchester Museum. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. The British Journal for the
History of Science, 43(4), 620-622.
Mason, T. (2010). Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum.
Museums Journal, 110(10), 58-59.
Parsons, T. (2013). Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum.
Annals of Science, 70(1), 111-114.
Swinney, G. N. (2010). Alberti, SJMM Nature and culture: objects, disciplines and the
Manchester Museum. Archives of Natural History, 37(2), 367-368.
Trustram, M. (2013). The Little Madnesses of Museums. Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional
Phenomena and Cultural Experience, 187.
Merriman, N. (2012). The
Manchester
Museum. Archaeological
Journal,169(sup1), 38-43.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
The more prominent research uses of the archaeology collection include work on Roman
material from excavations in Manchester (Gregory 2007); studies initiated by Prof John Prag in
connection with the Bronze Age mines at Alderley Edge (Prag and Timberlake 2005; Smith et al.
2011); and work on the material from Sir William Boyd Dawkins’ excavations at Creswell Crags
(Jacobi, 2006, 2007a and 2007b; Bahn and Pettit 2009). The late Roger Jacobi’s knowledge of
Creswell collections in the UK and in the United States was so detailed it extended to
recognizing matching breaks or joins between fragments of objects held by different institutions.
It is particularly gratifying to report the sourcing of significant collections of and Romano-British
pottery from excavations at Gayton Thorpe in Norfolk during the 1920s (Sitch 2010; Sitch and
Harlow 2011) and human remains of early Medieval date from Heronbridge, near Chester (Sitch
2011). Both collections had frustrated earlier attempts to provenance them to such an extent
that, in the case of the Gayton Thorpe pottery, sherds had been distributed to archaeological
societies in Manchester and institutions abroad as unprovenanced handling material for
teaching purposes. In the case of the Heronbridge remains, the material went from being under
consideration for disposal to being displayed in the Museum’s Ancient Worlds displays (Sitch
2013a, 2013b) and being included in a study of the Anglo-Saxon world by a University of
Manchester academic (Higham and Ryan 2013).
One of the more unusual research requests came from the School of Dentistry at the University
of Manchester and involved x-raying an edentulate human mandible in water in order to simulate
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the effect of x-raying an elderly live patient. The x-rays were used in the training of dental
students.
Bahn, P. & Pettitt, P. (2009).
Britain's Oldest Art: The Ice Age Cave Art of Creswell Caves. English Heritage, Swindon.
Bonfante, L. (2006). Etruscan inscriptions and Etruscan religion. Pp. 9-26 in N.T.de Grummond
& E.Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans, University of Texas Press, Austin.
Bouwman, A. S., Brown, K. A., Prag, A.J.N.W. and T. A. Brown
(2008). Kinship between burials from Grave Circle B at Mycenae
revealed by ancient DNA typing. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 2580-84 (available online at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008. 04.010).
Bouwman, A., Brown, K. A. and A. J. N. W. Prag (2010). Middle Helladic Kinship : Families,
Faces and DNA at Mycenae. In Philippa- Touchais, Anna, Touchais, Gilles,
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Voutsaki, Sofia and Wright, James (eds), Mesohelladika: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze
Age (Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec
l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12
mars 2006 = Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52, 453-9.
Bouwman, A.S., Brown, T.A., Chilvers, E.R,. Arnott, R. and Prag, A.J.N.W. (2009). ‘Kinship in
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Aegean prehistory? Ancient DNA in human bones from mainland Greece and Crete’, Annual of
the British School at Athens 104, 293-309.
Chilvers, E.R, Bouwman, A.S., Brown, K.A., Arnott R.G., Prag, A.J.N.W., Brown, T.A. (2008).
Ancient DNA in human bones from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete. Journal
of Archaeological Science 35: 2707- 14 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008. 04.019).
Dickinson, O.T.P.K., Papazoglou- Manioudaki, L., Nafplioti, A. and Prag, A.J.N.W.
(2012).Mycenae Revisited Part 4: Assessing the New Data. Annual of the British School at Athens
107, 161-88 (doi:10.1017/S0068245412000056) .
Gregory, Richard A. (2007). Roman Manchester: The University of Manchester's Excavations within
the Vicus 2001-5. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
Harlow, N. and Sitch, B. (2011). New light on an old excavation archive: material from Gayton
Thorpe in the Manchester Museum. Museum Archaeologists News, 50, 1-4.
Higham, N., and Ryan, M. J. (2013). The Anglo-Saxon World. Yale University Press.
Høgenhaven, J. (2007). George J. Brooke and Philip R. Davies (eds), Copper Scroll Studies.
Journal of Semitic Studies, 52(2), 393-394.
Jacobi, R. (2006). Some observations on the non-flint lithics from Creswell Crags. Lithics, 25, 3964.
Jacobi, R. M. (2007) Early Upper Palaeolithic Artefacts, Beedings, West Sussex and the Context
of Similar Finds. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 73, 229-325.
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Jacobi, R. M. (2007). The Stone Age archaeology of Church Hole, Creswell Crags,
Nottinghamshire. Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags in European Context, 71- 111.
Jacobi, R. M., and Higham, T. F. G. (2011). The British earlier Upper Palaeolithic: settlement
and chronology. The ancient human occupation of Britain, 181-222.
Manby, T. G. (2007). Ehenside Tarn and the neolithic pottery of North-Western England.
Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Extra Series, 33, 61-97.
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Musgrave, J., Prag, A.J.N.W., Neave, R., Fox, R.L., White, H. 2010. The Occupants of Tomb II
at Vergina. Why Arrhidaios and Eurydice must be excluded. International Journal of Medical
Studies, 7(6):s1-s15. doi:10.7150/ijms.7.s1. Available from http://www.medsci.org/v07p00s1.ht m
Neave, R.A.H. and Prag, A.J.N.W. 2005. The skull as the armature of the face: reconstructing
ancient faces. In Brady, M. and Bowman, A.K. (eds), Proceedings of the joint Royal Society/British
Academy symposium "Artefacts and Images of the Ancient World", 6-7 December 2000). London:
British Academy Occasional Paper 4, 131- 43.
Pantos, E., Kockelmann, W., Chapon, L.C., Lutterotti, L., Bennet, S.L., Tobin, M.J.,
Mosselmans, J.F.W., Pradell, T., Salvado, N., Butí, S., Garner, R., Prag, A.J.N.W. (2005).
Neutron and X- ray characterisation of the metallurgical properties of a 7th century BC
Corinthian-type bronze helmet. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B:
Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 239, 16-26.
Papazoglou-Manioudaki, L., Nafplioti, A., Musgrave, J.H., Neave, R.A.H., Smith, D. and Prag,
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A.J.N.W. (2009). Mycenae revisited Part 1. The human remains from Grave Circle A:
Stamatakis, Schliemann and two new faces
from Shaft Grave VI. Annual of the British School at Athens 104, 233- 77.
Papazoglou-Manioudaki, L., Nafplioti, A., Musgrave, J.H. and Prag, A.J.N.W. (2010). ‘Mycenae
revisited Part 3. The human remains from Grave Circle A at Mycenae. Behind the masks: a
study of the bones of Shaft Graves I–V’, Annual of the British School at Athens 105, 157-224.
Prag, A.J.N.W. (2005). Chapter 1. Introduction: The Alderley Edge Landscape Project. In
Timberlake, Simon and Prag, A.J.N.W. (eds), The Archaeology of Alderley Edge (Oxford, British
Archaeological Reports: British Series 396 and Oxford, J & E Hedges), 1- 5.
Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010a). Lost and Found: the Tale of a Miner’s Shovel. In Sekunda. N. (ed.),
Ergasteria: Works presented to John Ellis Jones on his 80th Birthday. Gda sk: Gda sk University.
Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010b). Return of a Greek youth. Minerva 21.5, 7.
Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010c). Hermes the Goat-carrier: Arcadian Enigma. Minerva 21.5, 16-19.
Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010d). Foreword to E. C. Casella and S. K. Croucher, The Alderley Sandhills
Project. Manchester: Manchester University Press, xiii-xvi.
Prag, A. J. N. W. (2010e). The Colouring of the Ruthwell and
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Bewcastle Crosses (Oxford University Project Woruldhord: http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldh
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ord/contributions/369).
Prag, A. J. N. W. (2012). Foreword to Paolo Fundarò, The Eternal Gaze (Lo Sguardo Eterno).
Rome: Espera, 3.
Prag, A. J. N. W. and R. Neave (2010). Sibling semblance: Mausolus and his sisters. In
MacFarlane, Fiona and Morgan, Catherine, Exploring Ancient Sculpture. Essays in honour of
Geoffrey Waywell (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London, Supplement 104), 109-20.
Prag, A.J.N.W. and Timberlake, S. (2005). Chapter 15. Conclusion: a Summary and Future
Prospects. In Timberlake, Simon and Prag, A.J.N.W. (eds), The Archaeology of Alderley Edge
(Oxford, British Archaeological Reports: British Series 396 and Oxford, J & E Hedges), 262-5.
Prag, A. J. N. W., Garner, R., Pantos, E., Bennett, S. L., Mosselmans, J. F. W., Tobin, M. J.,
Kockelmann, W., Chapon, L.C., Salvado, N. and Pradell, T. (2008). How the Greeks Got Ahead:
Technological Aspects of Manufacture of a Corinthian Type Hoplite Bronze Helmet from
Olympia. In Paipetis, S.A. (ed.) Science and Technology in Homeric Epics (Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, August 28-30th, 2006, Olympia,
Greece). Dordrecht:
Springer, Netherlands, 205-20.
Prag, K. (2006). Defensive Ditches in Ottoman Fortifications in Bilad al- Sham. Pp. 295-306 in
H. Kennedy (ed.) Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria. From the Coming of Islam to the
Ottoman Period. Brill, Leiden.
Prag, K. (2007a). Water strategies in the Iktanu region of Jordan. Pp. 405-412 in Studies in the
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History and Archaeology of Jordan, Vol. IX. Department of Antiquities, Amman.
Prag, K. (2007b). Jerusalem in the third and second millennia B.C. The archaeological evidence.
Pp. 54-68 in Z. Kafafi and R. Schick (eds.), Jerusalem before Islam. British Archaeological Reports
International Series, 1699.
Prag, K. (2008). Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961- 1967. Volume V. Discoveries in
Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem. Levant Supplementary Volume 7. Oxbow, Oxford.
Prag, K. (2009a). The late third millennium in the Levant: a reappraisal of the north-south divide.
Pp. 80-89 in P.J. Parr (ed.) The Levant in Transition. Proceedings of a Conference held at the British
Museum on 20-21 April 2004. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual IX. Maney, Leeds (UK).
Prag, K. (2009b). The foothill cemeteries behind Iktanu: the vanishing landscape. Studies in the
History and Archaeology of Jordan,
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X, 703-8. Amman
Prag, K. (2011). The domestic unit at Tall Iktanu, its derivations and functions. Pp. 55-76 in M.
Chesson (ed.) Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban Communities of the Southern
Levant. Papers in Honor of Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake.
Prag, K. (2012a). Footbaths: Secular, Ritual and Symbolic. Pp. 361-371 in M. Gruber, S. Aḥituv,
G. Lehmann & Z. Talshir (eds.) All the Wisdom of the East. Studies in Near Eastern Archaeology and
History in Honor of Eliezer D. Oren. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 255. Academic Press, and
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Fribourg and Göttingen.
Prag, K. (2012b). Shu'aib/Hisban Project. CBRL 2012, Bulletin 7, 52- 53.
Prag, K. (2014a). The Southern Levant during the Intermediate Bronze Age. Ch. 26, pp. 388400 in M. Steiner & A. Killebrew (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant c. 8000332 BCE. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Prag, K. (2014b). 'Tell Barakat' Revisited: a kernos ring from central Jordan in E. Gubel & I.M.
Swinnen (eds.) From Gilead to Edom. Studies in the Archaeology of Jordan in honor of Denyse HomèsFredericq. Akkadica Supplementum, Brussels.
Salvadó, N., Butí, S., Tobin, M.J., Pantos, E., Prag, A.J.N.W., Pradell, T. 2005. Advantages of
the use of SR-FTIR microspectroscopy: applications to Cultural Heritage. Analytical Chemistry
77(11), 3444- 51.
Sayer, D. (2010). Who's afraid of the dead? Archaeology, modernity and the death taboo. World
Archaeology, 42(3), 481-491.
Sitch, B.J. (2009). Comings and goings from the Museum. Greater Manchester Archaeology
Federation Newsletter, 1(2), 5.
Sitch, B.J. (2011). Museums, Human Remains and Disposals. Pp. 120-147 in P. Davies (ed.)
Museums and the Disposals Debate. MuseumsEtc, London.
Sitch, B.J. (2012) Archaeological re-discoveries at the Manchester Museum. Greater Manchester
Archaeology Federation Newsletter, 1(8), 10-11.
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Sitch, B.J. (2012). Rediscovering a long-lost battlefield assemblage from Heronbridge, nr
Chester. Museum Archaeologists News, 52 (Spring), 1-4.
Smith, A.D., Green, D.I., Charnock, J.M., Pantos, E., Timberlake, S . & Prag, A.J.N.W. (2011).
Natural preservation mechanisms at play in a Bronze Age wooden shovel found in the copper
mines of Alderley Edge. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(11), 3029-3037.
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Smith, K. (2011). The Alderley Sandhills Project: an archaeology of community life in (post)Industrial England. Journal of Design History, 24(1), 91-92.
Thorn, J. C. (2005). The Necropolis of Cyrene: Two Hundred Years of Exploration. L'Erma di
Bretschneider, Rome.
Timberlake, S. (2005). Stone Mining Tools From Alderley Edge. A re-examination of hammerstones in the collections of The Manchester Museum and from archaeological excavations on
Engine Vein (1997). British Archaeological Reports British Series, 396, 58.
Timberlake, S. and A. J. N. W. Prag (eds) (2005). The Archaeology of Alderley Edge: Survey,
Excavation and Experiment in an Ancient Mining Landscape. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports,
British Series 396 and Oxford: J & E Hedges).
Numismatics
Butcher, K. & Ponting, M. (2012). The Beginning of the End? The Denarius in the Second
Century, The Numismatic Chronicle 172, 63- 83.
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Butcher, K. & Ponting, M. (2014). The metallurgy of Roman silver coinage: from the reform of
Nero to the reform of Trajan. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
Sugden, K., & Stoddart, P. Empire and coinage: a contribution to the debate on colonialism
ICOMON eProceedings (Frankfurt, 2006) 1 (2008), 1-15.
Sugden, K. & Jones, I. (2011). Dies of Henri le Rus. British Numismatic Journal, 81, 234-7.
Sugden, K. & Stoddart, P. (2012) 20th century British campaign medals: a continuation of the
19th century? Proceedings of the XIVth International Numismatic Congress, 2009, 1965-72.
Sugden, K. & Jones, I. (2012) The Prestbury Civil War hoard. British Numismatic Journal 82, 133145.
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BOTANY
Over the last 10 years, 119 articles, books and chapters have used the botanical collections of
the Manchester Museum. Of these, almost half (47%) have been studies of mosses, liverworts
or hornworts, while studies of flowering plants and ferns account for another 38% of the total.
Most of these publications are taxonomic reviews (including phylogenetics) or studies of
distribution and conservation status, but there are also species identification keys, biodiversity
checklists and ecotoxicological testing. Research into the flora of the British Isles tends to focus
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2011), Sorbus (Price & Rich, 2007) and Juncus (Wilcox, 2009-2014). However, the collections
have world-wide significance and many publications result from international loans; this is
particularly true for neotropical liverworts and hornworts. The Manchester Museum’s collection
of Richard Spruce’s (1817-1893) South American liverworts is rich in type specimens and the
number of resulting publications is an indication of their continuing scientific importance (e.g. the
publications of Reiner-Drehwald and colleagues, 2005 and 2013). While many studies make use
of the existing historic collections, scientific research can also generate material such as
voucher specimens which are deposited in the herbarium to allow for future verification (e.g. AlGendy et al., 2010; Jepson et al., 2012; and Rowntree et al., 2010). In addition to the taxonspecific studies, a further 13% of the total publications cover the collectors themselves and the
functions of herbaria. It is not surprising that the herbarium collection is a rich source of
information for historical research about horticulture (e.g. Brooks, 2010; Golding, 2010), natural
history collectors (e.g. Gill, 2012; Hodkinson & Stewart, 2012; Seaward, 2007) and their
societies and exchange networks (Groom et al., 2014; Middleton, 2014). However, publications
also draw on the Manchester Museum collection for work into modern herbarium practices such
as generating large botanical datasets (Castañeda Álvarez et al., 2011), issues of health and
safety (Fellowes et al., 2011) and mass digitization through on-line access (Wolstenholme and
Humphrey, 2006).
Collectors, herbarium history and practiceBaker, R. A. (2007). In search of a naturalist-natural
history in Warrington from 1870 to 1910 and the records and collections of Linnaeus Greening
(1855-1927). Archives of Natural History, 34(2), 235-243.
Castañeda Álvarez, N.P., Vincent, H.A., Eastwood, R.J. & Maxted, N. (2011). Chapter 14:
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Ecographic Studies. In: Guarino, L., Ramantha Rao, V. & Goldberg, E. (eds.), Collecting Plant
Diversity: Technical guidelines. 2011 update, Biodiversity International, Rome.
Brooks, A. (2011). A Veritable
Eden. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
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in Dudley, S. H. (ed.). Narrating
objects, collecting stories: essays in
honour of Professor Susan M.
Pearce. Routledge, Abingdon.
Hodkinson, I.D. & Steward, A.
(2012). The Three-Legged Society.
The lives of the Westmorland
naturalists and friends George
Stabler, James M. Barnes and
Joseph A. Martindale. Centre for
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North-West Regional Studies.
Fellowes, J. W., Pattrick, R. A. D., Green, D. I., Dent, A., Lloyd, J. R., & Pearce, C. I. (2011).
Use of biogenic and abiotic elemental selenium nanospheres to sequester elemental mercury
released from mercury contaminated museum specimens. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 189(3),
660-669.
Galloway, D.J. (2013).
Contributions to a history of New
Zealand lichenology 4. Richard
Helms (1842-1914). Australian
Lichenology 73, 12-23.
Gill, S. (2012). Leopold Hartley
Grindon. Micro-Miscellanea Manchester Microscopical and
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Natural History Newsletter, 81.
Golding, Y. (2010). Messrs. W & J Birkenhead: ferns a specialty. Pteridologist, 5(3), 170. Grayer,
S. (2009). Is there a viable future for herbaria in British Museums? NatSCA News, 17, 14- 28.
Groom, Q. J., O'Reilly, C., & Humphrey, T. (2014). Herbarium specimens reveal the exchange
network of British and Irish botanists, 1856-1932. New Journal of Botany, 4(2), 95-103.
Groves, E. W. (2013). Archibald Menzies's visit to King George Sound, Western Australia,
September-October 1791. Archives of Natural History, 40(1), 139-148. Hill, K. (2012). "He knows
me... but not at the museum": women, natural history collecting and museums, 1880-1914. Pp.
184-195
King, D.Q. (2009). A checklist of sources of the botanical illustrations in the Grindon Herbarium,
The Manchester Museum: additional sources. Archives of Natural History, 36(2), 354-356.
Middleton, R. (2014). The Royal Horticultural Society's 1864 botanical competition. Archives of
Natural History, 41(1), 25-44.
Seaward, M. R. D. (2007). Richard Spruce's contribution to lichenology. Bibliotheca
Lichenologica, 95, 105.
Wolstenholme, L. & Humphrey, T. (2006). Documenting herbarium specimens from home – can
you help? BSBI News, 103, 41.
Flowering plants and ferns
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Allen, D. E. (2005). Additional Irish records of Rubus species from reAl-Gendy, A. A., El-Gindi, O. D.,
Hafez, A. S., & Ateya, A. M. (2010).
Glucosinolates, volatile constituents
and biological activities of
Erysimum corinthium
Boiss.(Brassicaceae). Food
Chemistry, 118(3), 519-524.
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examination of herbaria. The Irish Naturalists' Journal, 176-178.
biodiversity: Hieracium radyrense (Asteraceae), Radyr Hawkweed. Watsonia, 25, 403-407. Jepson,
P., Lubienski, M., Llewellyn, P. & Viane, R. (2013). Hybrids within Equisetum subgenus
Hippochaete in England and Wales. New Journal of Botany, 3(1), 47-58. Jepson, P., Welch, D. &
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Bailey, J.P. (2012). A new Myosotis hybrid, Myosotis x bollandica (Boraginaceae). New Journal of
Botany, 2(1), 2-8.
Knapp, A. (2010). Ranunculus × hiltonii still present on Copthorne Common, E. Sussex. BSBI
news, 115, 34-35.
McVeigh, A., Carey, J.E., & Rich, T.C.G. (2005). Chiltern Gentian, Gentianella germanica (Willd.)
Börner (Gentianaceae) in Britain: distribution and current status. Watsonia, 25, 339-367.
Price, D.T. & Rich, T.C.G. (2007). One-way introgressive hybridisation between Sorbus aria and
S. torminalis (Rosaceae) in southern Britain. Watsonia 26, 419-432.
Ames, M. & Spooner, D.M. (2008).
DNA from herbarium specimens
settles a controversy about origins
of the European potato. American
Journal of Botany, 95, 252-257.
El-Gazzar, A. & Rabei, S. (2008).
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Taxonomic assessment of five
numerical methods and its
implications on the classification of
Hyptis s.l.(Labiatae). International
Journal of Botany, 4, 85-92.
Flores-Moreno, H., Garcia-Trevino,
E.S., Letten, A.D. Moles, A.T.
(2014). In the beginning: phenotypic
change in three invasive species
through their first two centuries
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since introduction. Biological
Invasions, 1-11.
Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. (2009). Lectotypification of Dryopteris pseudomas based on Wollaston’s
specimen of D. affinis. Fern Gazette, 18(6), 284-285.
Hutchinson, G. & Rich, T.C.G. (2205). Conservation of Britain’s
Molina, A., Acedo, C., & Llamas, F.
(2008). (1817) Proposal to
conserve the name Carex leersii
FW Schultz against C. leersii Willd.
and C. chabertii
Gallo, L. (2008). Taxonomic notes
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on some species of Sedum ser.
649.
Rupestria Berger (Crassulaceae)
and typification of their
names. Webbia, 63(2), 169-173.
Gibby, M. (2013). Ferns and
Conservation. The Bulletin of the
British Pteridological Society, 7(6),
477-482.
Goyder, D. (2007). 585. Asclepias
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barjoniifolia. Curtis's Botanical
Magazine, 24(2), 93-100.
Pujadas-Salvà, A.J. and
Argiumbau, P.F.I. (2008). A new
species of Orobanche
(Orobanchaceae) from the Balearic
Islands. Botanical Journal of the
Linnean Society, 158, 722–729.
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Pujadas A.J, Plaza L, Sánchez E, Triano E, López M, Burgarella C, Rubiales D, Román B,
Reyes E & Ivorra A. (2007). El
género Orobanche L. (Orobanchaceae) en Andalucía. Acta Botanica Malacitana, 32, 91-126.
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Rabei, S., & El-Gazzar, A. (2007). Computer-generated keys to species of Hyptis sl(Labiatae).
Taeckholmia, 27, 11-39.
Rich, T., Houston, L., Robertson,
A. & Proctor, M. (2010).
Whitebeams, Rowans and Service
Trees of Britain and Ireland. A
monograph of British and Irish
Sorbus. BSBI, London.
Rich, T.C.G., Lockton, A.J. & Parnell, J. (2005). Distribution of the Irish Whitebeam, Sorbus
hibernica E.F. Warb (Rosaceae). Watsonia, 25, 369-380.
Rich, T. C., Mardon, D., Curtis, I.,
Heyward, S. J., Heyward, V. G.,
McKean, D. R., Hall, T., Harris, S.,
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O’Rourke, A., Coawn, R.S. & Fay,
M. F. (2005). Is the enigma a
variation? Sagina boydii FB White
(Caryophyllaceae), Boyd's
pearlwort. Botanical Journal of the
Linnean Society,147(2), 203-211.
Rich, T.C.G. (2005). Conservation of Britain’s biodiversity: Hieracium neocoracinum (Asteraceae),
Craig Cerrig-gleisiad Hawkweed. Watsonia, 25, 283-287.
Rich, T.C.G. (2006). Conservation of Britain’s biodiversity: Hieracium nriddelsdellii (Asteraceae),
Craig Riddelsdell’s Hawkweed. Watsonia, 26, 139-144.
Rich, T.C.G. (2011). Hieracium maccoshiana, a new Scottish hawkweed related to H. dovrense
(section Alpestria, Asteraceae). PhytoKeys, 3, 1-8.
Rich, T.C.G., Edward, B. and Pearman, D.A. (2007). Hieracium portlandicum (Asteraceae), a new
endemic hawkweed from the Isle of Portland, England related to Hieracium leyanum. Watsonia,
26, 451-461.
Rich, T.C.G. & McCosh, D.J. (2008). The status of Hieracium arranense and H. sannoxense
(Asteraceae), two endemic hawkweeds from the Isle of Arran. Watsonia, 27, 119-125.
Rich, T.C.G. & McCosh, D.J. (2010). Conservation status of two British members of Hieracium
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section Alpestria: Hieracium mirandum and H. solum (Asteraceae). Watsonia, 28, 141- 144.
Rich, T.C.G. & McCosh, D.J. (2010). Taxonomy and conservation status of Hieracium vinifolium
(including H. kintyricium), Claret-leaved Hawkweed (Asteraceae). Watsonia, 28, 151- 156.
Rich, T.C.G., Hjertson, M. & Moberg, R. (2006). Typification of some T. Hedlund names in
Sorbus L. (Rosaceae). Taxon, 55(1), 203- 206.
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Rich, T.C G., McDonnell, E J. &
Lledó, M D. (2008). Conservation of
Britain's biodiversity: the case
of Hieracium cyathis
Smith, P.H. & Lockwood, P.A. (2011). Grazing is the key to the conservation of Gentianella
campestris (L.) Börner (Gentianaceae): evidence from the north Merseyside sand-dunes. New
Journal of Botany, 1(2), 127-136.
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taxa. Botanical Journal of the
Rich, T.C.G., Motley, G.S. & Kay, Q.O.N. (2005). Welsh endemic Sorbus species. Watsonia, 25,
381-388.
Sawtschuk, J. & Rich, T.C.G. (2008). Conservation of Britain’s biodiversity: Status of the two
Wye Valley endemics Hieracium pachyphylloides, Carboniferous Hawkweed and H. vagicola,
Tutshill Hawkweed. Watsonia, 27, 109-118.
Sierra, S.E.C., van Welzen, P.C. amd Slik, J.W.F. (2005). A taxonomic revision of Mallotus
section Philippinensis (former section Rottlera – Euphorbiaceae) in Malesia and Thailand. Blumea,
50(2), 221-248.
Sierra, S.E.C, Aparicio, M., Gebraad, M.J.H, Kulju, K.K.M. & van Welzen, P.C. (2007). The
mopholoical range in Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae) and a taxonomic revision of its section
Rottleropsis (including Axenfeldia) in Malesia, Thailand and Africa. Blumea, 52(1), 21-113.
Smith, P. H. (2009). Distribution, status and ecology of Blysmus compressus (L.) Panz. ex Link on
the Sefton coast sand-dunes, Merseyside. Watsonia, 27(4), 339.
Thomas, S., Bailey, J.P. and Rich, T.C.G. (2011). Pollen and chromosome studies in Hieracium
sect. Alpestria (Asteraceae). Nordic Journal of Botany, 29(2), 244-248.
Typification and synonymy of
(Asteraceae)
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and its relation to other apomictic
Linnean Society, 156, 669–680.
Rivero-Guerra, A. O. (2010).
names in Santolina (Asteraceae:
Anthemideae) published by
Hoffmannsegg and Link. Nordic
Journal of Botany, 28(5), 581-587.
Valcárcel, V. & Vargas, P. (2010).
Quantitative morphology and
species delimitation under the
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general lineage concept:
Optimisation for Hedera
(Araliaceae). American Journal of
Botany, 97(9), 1555-1573.
Wilcox, M. (2009). Juncus fasciculatus Koch (?)’ in Cliffe Castle Museum Keighley, Skipton. BSBI
News, 112, 5-7.
Wilcox, M. (2010). A novel approach to the determination and identification of Juncus x diffusus
Hoppe and J. x kern-reichgeltii Jasen & Wacht. ex Reichg. Watsonia, 28, 43-56.
Wilcox, M. (2011). Hybrid rushes in the U.K. – sterility and fertility. BSBI News, 116, 21-27.
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Wilcox, M. (2011). Epilobium tournefortii Michalet. BSBI News, 116, 70-76.
Wilcox, M. (2012). Neglected couch: the enigma of Elytrigia campestris ssp. maritima – a confused
couch! BSBI News, 119, 25-27.
Wilcox, M. (2014). Juncus subgenus Juncus, Section Iridifolii in Britain. BSBI News, 125, 35-36.
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Liverworts, mosses and hornworts
De Moura, O.S., Ilkiu-Borges, A.L., Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2012). A new species of Lejeunea
Lib. (Lejeuneaceae) from Low Várzea forest in lower Amazon (Pará, Brazil). Nova Hedwigia,
95(1-2), 197-202.
Alvarenga, L. D. P., Lisboa, R. C.
L., & Tavares, A. C. C. (2007). New
liverwort records for the Caxiuanã
National Forest Pará State,
Brazil. Acta Botanica
Brasilica, 21(3), 649-656.
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Bastos, C.J.P. (2012). Taxonomy and distribution of Cheilolejeunea aneogyna (Spruce) A. Evans
(Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta). Acta Botanica Brasilica, 26(3), 709- 713.
Crandall-Stotler, B.J., Stotler, R.E., Doyle, W.T. & Forrest, L.L. (2008). Species of the
Phaeorceros hallii (Austin) Prosk. – Phaeoceros pearsonii (M. Howe) Prosk. Complex and the
systematic affinities of Paraphymatoceros Hässel. Fieldiana Botany, 47, 213- 238.
Feldberg, K., Groth, H., Wilson, R., Schäfer-Verwimp, A. & Heinrichs, J. (2004). Cryptic
speciation in Herbertus (Herbertaceae, Jungermanniopsida): range and morphology of Herbertus
sendtneri inferred from nrITS sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 249(3-4), 247-261.
Feldberg, K. & Heinrichs, J. (2005). On the identity of Herbertus borealis (Jungermanniopsida:
Herbertaceae) with notes on the possible origin of H. sendtneri. Journal of Bryology, 27(4), 343350.
Marchantiophyta). Nova Hedwigia, 91(3-4), 421-450.
Daniels, A. E. D. (2010). Checklist
of the bryophytes of Tamil Nadu,
India. Archive for Bryology, 65, 1117.
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Engel, J. J., & Merrill, G. S. L.
(2010). Studies on New Zealand
Hepaticae. 39–55. More new taxa,
combinations, typifications and
synonymy in Plagiochila from New
Zealand (Plagiochilaceae). Nova
Hedwigia, 91(3-4), 501-517.
Crandall-Stotler, B., Stotler, R.E., Zhang, L. & Forrest, L.L. (2010). On the morphology,
systematics and phylogeny of Noteroclada (Noterocladaceae,
Feldberg, K. & Heinrichs, J. (2006).
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A taxonomic revision
of Herbertus (Jungermanniidae:
Herbertaceae) in the Neotropics
based on nuclear and chloroplast
DNA and morphology. Botanical
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Journal of the Linnean Society,
151(3), 309–332.
Feldberg, K., Hentschel, J., Wilson, R., Rycroft, D.S., Glenny, D. & Heinrichs, J. (2007).
Phylogenetic biogeography of the leafy liverwort Herbertus (Jungermanniales, Herbertaceae)
based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: correlation between genetic variation
and geographical distribution. Journal of Biogeography, 34(4), 688-698.
and Crete. Journal of Bryology, 28(4), 357-359.
Holyoak, D. T. (2010). The bryophytes of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. CISFBR.
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Ilkiu-Borges, A.L. & Lisboa, R.C.L. (2004). The Cyclolejeunea, Haplolejeunea, Harpalejeunea,
Lepidolejeunea and Rectolejeunea genera (Lejeuneaceae, Hepaticae) in the Ferreira Penna
Research Station, Pará, Brazil. Acta Botanica Brasilica, 18(3), 537-553.
Ilkiu-Borges, A.L. (2005). A taxonomic revision of Echinocolea (Lejeuneaceae, Hepaticae). Nova
Hedwigia, 80(1-2), 45-71.
Feldberg, K., Váňa, J., Long, D.G., Shaw, A.J., Hentschel, J. & Heinrichs, J. (2010). A
phylogeny of Adelanthaceae (Jungermanniales, Marchantiophyta) based on nuclear and
chloroplast DNA markers with comments on classification, cryptic speciation and biogeography.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 55(1), 293-304.
Freire, A. V., & Stotler, R. E. (2007). Typifications of the names of some Latin American species
of Fossombronia (Fossombroniaceae). The Bryologist, 110(4), 817-823.
Hässel de Menéndez, G.G.(2006). Paraphymatoceros Hässel, Gen. Nov. (Anthocerotophyta).
Phytologia, 88(2), 208-211. Hässel de Menéndez, G. G. (2006). Aneura polyclada, A. polyptera and
A. denticulata (Aneuraceae) from South America, overlooked names since 1886. The Bryologist,
109(1), 33-37.
Hedderson, T. A., & Blockeel, T. L. (2006). Oncophorus dendrophilus, a new moss species from
Cyprus
Melendez, J.U. (2008). Monograph of Frullania subgenus meteoriopsis (Frullaniaceae,
Marchantiophyta). Caldasia, 30(1), 49-94.
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Pócs, T. & Bernecker, A. (2013). New or little known epiphyllous liverworts, XIX. Acta Botanica
Hungarica, 55(3-4), 385-391.
Pócs, T., Bernecker, A. & Tixier, P. (2014). Synopsis and key to species of neotropical
Cololejeunea (Lejeuneaceae). Acta
Ilkiu-Borges A. L. (2006). A
taxonomic monograph of the
genus Prionolejeunea
(Lejeuneaceae,
Jungermanniopsida). Göttingen.
Cuvillier.
Juslén, A. (2006). Revision of
Asian Herbertus (Herbertaceae,
Marchantiophyta). Annales
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Botanici Fennici, 43(6), 409.
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Botanica Hungarica, 56(1-2), 185- 226. Porley, R.D. & Edwards, S. (2010). Leptodontium proliferum
Herzog (Bryopsida: Pottiaceae), new to Europe. Journal of Bryology, 32(1), 46-50.
Reeb, C. & Bardat, J. (2014). Studies on African Riccardia types and related material.
Cryptogamie, Biologie, 35(1), 47-75.
Reiner-Drehwald, M. E. (2005). On Lejeunea rotundifolia and Dicladolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae,
Jungermanniopsida). Systematic Botany, 30(4), 687-692.
Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2005). On Amphilejeunea and Cryptogynolejeunea, two small genera of
Lejeuneaceae (Junngermanniopsida), and two common Neotropical Lejeunea species. Nova
Hedwigia, 81(3-4), 394-412.
Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2006). Type studies on Neotropical Lejeuneaceae
(Junngermanniopsida). Cheilolejeunea and Lepidolejeunea. Nova Hedwigia, 83(3-4), 473-482.
Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2008). Leujeunea oligoclada and L. rionegrensis (Lejeuneaceae) in tropical
America: new data on morphology and geographical distribution. Nova Hedwigia 87(1- 2), 175184.
Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2010). A taxonomic revision of Lejeunea deplanta (Lejeuneaceae,
Marchantiophyta) from Tropical
America. Nova Hedwigia, 91(3-4), 519-532. Reiner-Drehwald, M.E. (2011). Studies on
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Neotropical Lejeuneaceae (Jungermanniopsida). New Synonyms and Ceratolejeunea temnantha
(Spruce) comb. Nov. Cryptogamie, Bryologie, 32(2), 95- 100.
Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., Allen, N.
S., & Chung, C. (2013). New
combinations and synonyms in
neotropical Lejeuneaceae
(Marchantiophyta), with description
of Lejeunea tamasii, a new species
from Barro Colorado island,
Panama. Polish Botanical
Journal, 58(2), 419-426.
Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., & Grolle,
R. (2012). Review of the genus
Rectolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae,
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Marchantiophyta). Nova
Hedwigia, 95(3-4), 451-482.
Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., & Grolle,
R. (2013). "Review of the
genus Harpalejeunea
(Lejeuneaceae) including the
description of H. grandis, a new
species from the paramos of
Colombia." Journal of Bryology,
21(1), 31-45.
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Reiner-Drehwald, M. E. & Ilkiu- Borges, A. L. (2007) Lejeunea huctumalcensis, a widely distributed
Lejeuneaceae from the Neotropics, and it’s relation to Ceratolejeunea. The Bryologist, 110(3),
465-474.
Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., & SchäferVerwimp, A. (2008). Lejeunea
oligoclada and L. rionegrensis
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America: new data on morphology
and geographical
Inflatolejeunea, Lejeunea species
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2), 175-184.
with eplicate perianths and
Lejeunea talamancensis sp. nov.
from Costa Rica
(Lejeuneaceae). Nova
Hedwigia, 87(3-4), 387-420.
Reiner-Drehwald, M. E., Schmidt,
A. R., & Heinrichs, J. (2012). The
genus Lejeunea in Miocene amber
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from the Dominican
Republic. Cryptogamie,
Bryologie, 33(1), 33-38.
Renner, M. A. (2013). Lejeunea
subelobata and Lejeunea
drummondii (Jungermanniopsida)
in Australasia. Polish Botanical
Journal, 58(1), 193-203.
Rowntree, J. K., Cowan, R. S., Leggett, M., Ramsay, M. M., & Fay, M. F. (2010). Which moss is
which? Identification of the threatened moss Orthodontium gracile using molecular and
morphological techniques. Conservation Genetics, 11(3), 1033-1042.
Shotbolt, L., Büker, P., & Ashmore, M. R. (2007). Reconstructing temporal trends in heavy metal
deposition: assessing the value of herbarium moss samples. Environmental pollution, 147(1),
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120-130.
So, M.L. (2004). Metzgeria (Metzgeriaceae, Marchantiophyta) in Africa. New Zealand Journal of
Botany, 42(2), 271-292.
So, M. L. (2005). Porella (Porellaceae, Marchantiophyta) in Latin America, New Zealand Journal of
Botany, 43(1) 301-321.
Stotler, R.E. & Crandall-Stotler, B. (2005). A revised classification of the Anthocerotophyta and a
checklist of the hornworts of North America, North of Mexico. The Bryologist, 108(1), 16-26.
Stotler, R.E & Doyle, W.T. (2004) Riccia crytallina verified in North America, north of Mexico. The
Bryologist, 107(1), 107-110.
Sukkharak, P. & Gradstein, S.R. (2014). A taxonomic revision of the genus Mastigolejeunea
(Marchantiophyta: Lejeuneaceae). Nova Hedwigia, 99(3-4), 279-345. Villarreal, J. C., Cargill, D.
C., & Goffinet, B. (2010).
Segarra-Moragues, J. G., & Puche,
(Sphaerocarpales) and a new
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Verwimp, A. (2008). On
Journal of Botany, 94, 166-176.
Segarra-Moragues, J. G., Puche,
F., & Sabovljević, M. (2012).
Rediscovery of Riella alatospora
(Riellaceae, Sphaerocarpales), an
aquatic, South African endemic
liverwort previously known from a
now largely transformed type
locality. South African Journal of
Botany, 79, 32-38.
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Phaeomegaceros squamuliger subspecies hasselii (Dendrocerotaceae, Anthocerotophyta), a new
taxon from the Southern Hemisphere. Nova Hedwigia, 91(3-4), 349-360.
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Villarreal, J.C., Hässel de Menéndez, G. & Allen, N.S. (2007). Nothoceros superbus
(Dendrocerotaceae), a new hornwort from Costa Rica. The Bryologist, 110(2), 279-285.
he status and conservation of stoneworts (Characeae) in West Gloucestershire (v.c. 34) and
North Somerset (v.c. 6). Watsonia, 26, 145-169.
Wei, Y-M., Zhu, R-L. & Gradstein, S.R. (2014). Notes on early land plants today. 49. On
Lejeunea huctumalcensis Lindenb. & Gottsche and the resurrection of Otigoniolejeunea (Spruce)
Schiffn., an older name for Physantholejeunea R.M. Schust. (Marchantiophyta, Lejeuneaceae).
Phytotaxa, 162(4), 236-238.
Yano, O. (2004). New records of bryophytes in the states of Brazil. Acta Amazonica, 34(4), 559576. Yano, O. & Peralta, D.F. (2005). Hepáticas (Marchantiophyta) de Mato Grosso, Brasil.
Hoehnea, 32(2), 185-205.
Other
Ing, B. (2011). Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Cheshire. University of Chester.
Lansdown, R.V., Stewart, N.F., Kitchen, C. & Kitchen, A.R. (2006).
Zhu, R-L. & Gradstein, S.R. (2005). Monograph of Lopholejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Hepaticae) in
Asia.
Systematic Botany Monographs, 74.
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EARTH SCIENCES
Marie Stopes studying coal balls (courtesy of John Rylands University Library). Her research specimens have
formed the basis of several publications over the last ten years’
Over the last ten years there has been a wealth of research into the earth science collections
building on the long history of study. New discoveries have been recorded and historic
collections have been investigated to reveal new insights. 84% of the publications are from the
palaeontology collection, 6% from the petrology and 10% from the mineral collection.
The collection has been used to illustrate a wealth of discoveries such as the new mineral
Redgillite found in Cumbria (Pluth et al., 2005) and new evidence of the Eurasian lynx in Britain
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(Hetherington et al, 2006 and Vines, 2007). 13% of the published research focuses on research
into Pleistocene mammals building on the work of Rodger Jacobi and Derek Yalden.
Historical geology continues to be a strong research theme yielding 22% of the publications.
Historical figures that capture the public’s imagination are ever popular, such as Marie Stopes
(Pain, 2007). Raising the profile of Stope’s collection has led to a re-evaluation of some of our
historic collections (Stullu-Derrien et al., 2011). Approximately half of the research has involved
new study of historic collections. For example, a re-evaluation of the museum’s Plesiosaur
holotype has led to its re-classification as a new species (Benson et al., 2011). New cutting–
edge modelling techniques have pushed the boundaries of discovery (Falkingham, 2012).
Palaeontology
Barnett, R. (2014). An inventory of British remains of Homotherium (Mammalia, Carnivora,
Felidae), with special reference to the material from Kent's Cavern. Geobios, 47(1), 19-29.
Bates KT, Falkingham PL, Hodgetts D, Farlow JO, Breithaupt BH, O'Brien M, Matthews N,
Sellers WI, Manning PL. (2009). Digital imaging and public engagement in palaeontology.
Geology Today, 25(4), 134-139.
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Benson, R. B., Ketchum, H. F., Noe, L. F., & Gómez-Pérez, M. (2011). New information on
Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member
(lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK. Palaeontology, 54(3), 547-571.
DeArce, M., Monaghan, N. T., & Jackson, P. N. W. (2011). The uneasy correspondence
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between TH Huxley and EP Wright on fossil vertebrates found in Jarrow, Co. Kilkenny (1865–
67). Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 65(3), 253-271.
Dunhill, A. M., Benton, M. J., Newell, A. J., & Twitchett, R. J. (2013). Completeness of the fossil
record and the validity of sampling proxies: a case study from the Triassic of England and
Wales. Journal of the Geological Society, 170(2), 291-300.
Edwards, A. L., & Pollard, J. E. (2006) Trace fossil collections at the University of Manchester
The Geological Curator 8(5): 243-246.
Falcon-Lang, H. (2008). Marie Stopes: passionate about palaeobotany. Geology Today, 24(4),
132-136.
Falcon-Lang, H. J. (2008). Marie Stopes and the Jurassic floras of Brora, NE Scotland. Scottish
Journal of Geology, 44(1), 65-74.
Falcon-Lang, H. J. (2008). Marie Stopes, the discovery of pteridosperms and the origin of
Carboniferous coal balls. Earth Sciences History, 27(1), 78-99.
Falkingham, P. L. (2012). Acquisition of high resolution three- dimensional models using free,
open-source, photogrammetric software. Palaeontologia Electronica, 15(1), 15pp.
Flower, L. O., & Schreve, D. C. (2014). An investigation of palaeodietary variability in European
Pleistocene canids. Quaternary Science Reviews.
Fraser, H. E., & Cleal, C. J. (2007). The contribution of British women to Carboniferous
palaeobotany during the first half of the 20th century. Geological Society, London, Special
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Publications, 281(1), 51-82.
Hetherington, D. A., Lord, T. C., & Jacobi, R. M. (2006). New evidence for the occurrence of
Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in medieval Britain. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21(1), 3-8.
Holland, C. H. (2007). Cyrtoconic nautiloid cephalopods from the British Silurian. Proceedings of
the Geologists' Association, 118(4), 365-373.
Garwood, R. J., & Dunlop, J. A. (2011). Morphology and systematics of anthracomartidae
(Arachnida: Trigonotarbida). Palaeontology, 54(1), 145-161.
Garwood, R. J., & Sutton, M. D. (2012). The enigmatic arthropod Camptophyllia. Palaeontologia
Electronica, 15(2).
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Gelsthorpe, D. (2007). Marie Stopes the palaeobotanist, Manchester and her adventures in
Japan. The Geological Curator 8(8): 375-380.
Jeffery, J. E. (2006). The Carboniferous fish genera Strepsodus and Archichthys (Sarcopterygii:
Rhizodontida): clarifying 150 years of confusion. Palaeontology, 49(1), 113-132.
Jepson, J. E., Coram, R. A., & Jarzembowski, E. A. (2009). Raphidioptera (Insecta:
Neuropterida) from the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset, UK. Cretaceous
Research, 30(3), 527-532.
Jepson, J. E., Makarkin, V. N., & Coram, R. A. (2012). Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the
Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Cretaceous Research, 34, 31MM APR 2015
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Langford, J. I. (2011). Granite Millstones of Shropshire and Adjoining Counties. Wind and Water
Mills, 30, 2-32.
Lewis, M. D. (2010). Pleistocene hyaena coprolite palynology in Britain: implications for the
environments of early humans. The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain, 14, 263.
Manning, P. L., Margetts, L., Johnson, M. R., Withers, P., Sellers, .W. I., Falkingham, P. L.,
Mummery, P. M., Barrett, P. M. and
Raymont, D. R. (2009). Biomechanics of Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur Claws: Application of X- Ray
Microtomography, Nanoindentation, and Finite Element Analysis. The Anatomical Record 292(9):
1397-1405.
Manning, P, Ott, C, Falkingham, P. (2008). A probable tyrannosaurid track from the Hell Creek
Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Montana, United States. Palaios, 23(9-10): 645-647.
Manning, P. L., Payne, D., Pennicott, J., Barrett, P. M., & Ennos, R. A. (2006). Dinosaur killer
claws or climbing crampons?. Biology Letters, 2(1), 110-112.
Martill, D. M. (2007). The age of the Cretaceous Santana Formation fossil Konservat Lagerstätte
of north-east Brazil: a historical review and an appraisal of the biochronostratigraphic utility of its
palaeobiota. Cretaceous Research, 28(6), 895-920.
Menon, F. (2007). Higher systematics of scorpions from the Crato Formation, Lower Cretaceous
of Brazil. Palaeontology, 50(1), 185- 195.
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Muir, L. A., Dunlop, J., & Moore, A. (2012). Arthropod types from Sparth Bottoms in the Howard
Collection (Rochdale Museum Service). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 123(1), 165169.
Munthe-Kaas, N. R. S. (2011). A study of the propodial morphology
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on Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from Spitsbergen.
Nudds, J. R. (2005). Catalogue of type, figured and referred fossils in the Geological
Department of the Manchester Museum: supplement. In Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological
and Polytechnic Society (Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 173-182). Geological Society of London.
Nudds, J. R., Brito, P. M., & Evans, J. W. (2005). The original syntypes of Vinctifer comptoni and
Notelops brama from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of northeast Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology, 25(3), 716-719.
Nudds, J. G., & Evans, J. W. (2005). The collection of George Gardner (1810–1849) from the
Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of northeast Brazil. The Geological Curator, 8, 169-175.
Pain, S. (2007). The hidden life of Marie Stopes. New Scientist, 196(2635), 74-75.
Penney, D. (2005). First Caribbean Floricomus (Araneae: Linyphiidae), a new fossil species in
Miocene Dominican Republic amber. A new synonymy for the extant North American fauna.
Geologica Acta, 3(1), 59.
Penney, D., Green, D. I., McNeil, A., Bradley, R. S., Marusik, Y. M., Withers, P. J., & Preziosi, R.
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F. (2012). A new species of Craspedisia (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Miocene Dominican amber,
imaged using X-ray computed
tomography. Paleontological Journal, 46(6), 583-588.
Pérez García, A., (2014) Revision of the poorly known Dorsetochelys typocardium, a relatively
abundant pleurosternid turtle (Paracryptodira) in the Early Cretaceous of Europe, Cretaceous
Research 49, 152-162
Pierce, S. E., Angielczyk, K. D., & Rayfield, E. J. (2009). Morphospace occupation in
thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs: skull shape variation, species delineation and temporal
patterns. Palaeontology, 52(5), 1057-1097.
Pollard, J., Selden, P., & Watts, S. (2008). Trace fossils of the Camptophyllia from the
Westphalian (Carboniferous) rocks of Lancashire, UK and their palaeoenvironmental context.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 270(3), 399-406.
Rodrigues, T., Wilhelm, A., Kellner, A., (2013) Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex
(Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England ZooKeys 308: 1–112
Smith, A. S., Araújo, R., & Mateus, O. (2011). A new plesiosauroid from the Toarcian (Lower
Jurassic) of Alhadas, Portugal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 57(2), 257-266.
Strullu-Derrien, C., Kenrick, P., Rioult, J. P., & Strullu, D. G. (2011). Evidence of parasitic
Oomycetes (Peronosporomycetes) infecting the stem cortex of the Carboniferous
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seed fern Lyginopteris oldhamia.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1706), 675-680.
Thomas, B. A., & Seyfullah, L. J. (2012). A re-examination of the unusual Carboniferous
lycophyte species Halonia ichthyoderma Lesquereux (comb. nov.). Review of Palaeobotany and
Palynology, 182, 14-19.
Tresise, G., & King, M. J. (2012). History of Ichnology: The Misconceived Footprints of
Rhynchosaurs. Ichnos, 19(4), 228- 237.
Vines, G. (2007). Medieval hunters exterminated Britain's lynx. New Scientist, 195(2616), 48-49.
Watson, J. (2005). One hundred and fifty years of palaeobotany at Manchester University.
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 241(1), 229-257.
Whitehouse, N. J. (2006). The Holocene British and Irish ancient forest fossil beetle fauna:
implications for forest history, biodiversity and faunal colonisation. Quaternary Science Reviews,
25(15), 1755-1789.
Wilkinson, D. M., O’REGAN, H. J., & Clare, T. (2006). A tale of two caves: the history of
archaeological exploration at Haverbrack and Helsfell in Southern Cumbria. Studies in Speleology,
14, 55-57.
Yalden, D. (2010). The history of British mammals. A&C Black.
Young, M. T. (2014). Filling the ‘Corallian Gap’: re-description of a metriorhynchid
crocodylomorph from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Headington, England. Historical Biology,
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26(1), 80-90.
Petrology
Bunney, A., Chalk, H., Edwards, A., Gelsthorpe, D. and Sitch, B. (2008). Volcanoes explode at
The Manchester Museum: A case study of a volcano themed public event. The Geological Curator
8 (10): 467 – 472
Langford, J. I. (2011). Granite Millstones of Shropshire and Adjoining Counties. Wind and Water
Mills, 30, 2-32.
Thomas, B. A., & Warren, L. M. (2008). Geological conservation in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 300(1), 17-30.
Young, B. (2010) North Pennines area of outstanding natural beauty and European geopark. A
geodiversity audit. North Pennines, 72.
Mineralogy
Green, D. I., Tindle, A. G., & Moreton, S. (2005). Brewsterite–Ba and Harmotome from the
Wicklow Lead Mines, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 23(1), 101-106.
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Green, D. I., & Young, B. (2006). Hydromagnesite and dypingite from the Northern Pennine
Orefield, northern England. In Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society (Vol.
56, No. 2, pp. 151-154). Geological Society of London.
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Green, D. I., Young, B., & Ixer, R. A. (2006). Beaverite from Cumbria and Yorkshire. In
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society (Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 155-158).
Geological Society of London.
Kerbey, H. C. David Forbes FRS (1828-1876): a chemist and
mineralogist who advocated for thin section microscopy. Geological Curator, 9(10), 515-527.
Pluth, J. J., Steele, I. M., Kampf, A. R., & Green, D. I. (2005). Redgillite, Cu6 (OH) 10 (SO4)·
H2O, a new mineral from Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England: description and crystal structure.
Mineralogical Magazine, 69(6), 973-980.
Torrens, H. S., & Ford, T. D. (2011). Elias Hall, pioneer mineral surveyor and geologist in the
Midlands and Lancashire. Mercian Geologist, 17(4), 250.
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EGYPTOLOGY
Egyptian mummy in the process of being CT scanned, 2014
The last ten years have seen a significant increase in the amount of research conducted on the
Museum’s Egyptology collection. Our 20 complete human mummies have been the most
intensively studied part of the collection to date, with continuing output based on the work of the
Manchester Mummy Project (David 2007, 2008, 2015; Cockitt et. al. 2014). The Museum’s
collection of animal mummies is currently the focus of a major research project based in the
University (McKnight et. al. 2011-2015). A considerable body of literature has been generated on
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the display and interpretation of Egyptian mummies (Day 2014; Exell 2013a,b; Riggs 2014;
Sheppard 2012; Wieczorkiewicz 2005), based on Manchester examples.
Comprehensive catalogues of our important holdings of cosmetic palettes of Predynastic date
(c. 5000-3100 BC) (Patenaude and Shaw 2011) and shabti figurines (Janes 2012) have
appeared, and a complete catalogue of mummies and coffins is currently in preparation
(Dodson, Loynes and Price 2017). The museum’s significant collections from the towns of
Gurob and Kahun and from the ‘Ramesseum Tomb’ continue to attract special interest (e.g.
Gasperini 2014; Wernick 2014; Hernández 2013; Forshaw 2014). We regularly loan these and
other items to major international exhibitions (Zeigler 2008; Morfoisse and Andreu-Lanoë 2014;
Oppenheim 2015).
New Egyptological research on little-studied but well-contexted objects (e.g. Frood 2007;
Yasuoka 2011; Price, forthcoming), archival exploration and the application of new scientific
techniques (e.g. Johnson et al 2013) has raised
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the profile of the collection as a whole. A volume of studies to celebrate the work of Rosalie
David, reflecting particularly on the Manchester Mummy Project and other aspects of the
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Museum collection, is nearing completion (Price et. al. 2016).
Atherton-Woolham, S. D., & McKnight, L. M. (2014). Post- mortem restorations in ancient
Egyptian animal mummies using imaging, Papers on Anthropology, 23(1), 9-17.
Battersby, S. (2012). ‘How a 3000- year-old code unmasked a stellar cannibal. New Scientist,
216(2895), 43-45.
Cockitt, J.A., Martin, S.O., & David, R. (2014) A new assessment of the radiocarbon age of
Manchester Mummy No 1770. Yearbook of Mummy Studies, 2, 95-102.
David, A. R. (2007). The Two Brothers: Death and the Afterlife in Middle Kingdom Egypt.
Rutherford Press Ltd.
David A. R.(ed). (2008). Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science. Cambridge University Press.
David, A. R. (2015). A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt. Pen and Sword.
Dodson, A, R. Loynes, and C. Price. Mummies and Coffins in the Manchester Museum. In
preparation.
Edwards, H. G., & Munshi, T. (2005). Diagnostic Raman spectroscopy for the forensic detection
of biomaterials and the preservation of cultural heritage.
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 382(6), 1398-1406.
Edwards, H. G., Stern, B., Villar, S. E. J., & David, A. R. (2007). Combined FT–Raman
spectroscopic and mass spectrometric study of ancient Egyptian sarcophagal fragments.
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Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 387(3), 829-836.
Exell, K. (ed.) (2009). Egypt in its African Context. Archaeopress.
Forshaw, R. (2014). The Role of the Lector in Ancient Egyptian Society. Archaeopress.
Forshaw, R., Morkot, R, Nicholson, P. and Price, C. (eds.) Mummies, Medicine and Magic.
Multi- disciplinary Essays in Egyptology in Honour of Rosalie David. Manchester University
Press. Forthcoming
Franzmeier, H. F. Höflmayer, W. Kutschera &, Wild, E.M. (2011) Radiocarbon Evidence for New
Kingdom Tombs: Sedment 254 and 246. Aegypten und Levante, 21, 15- 29.
Frood, E. (2006). A Ramessid statue from Abydos bearing a sacred emblem. The Journal of
Egyptian Archaeology, 92, 250-255.
Gasperini, V. (2014) Mycenaean and Cypriot Pottery from Gurob
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(Fayoum, Egypt) in the Manchester Museum Collection, Journal of Ancient Egyptian
Interconnections 6(2), 10-22.
Harbort, J., Gurvit, O., Beck, L. A., & Pommerening, T. (2008). Extraordinary dental findings in
an Egyptian mummy skull by means of Computed Tomography. PalArch’s J. Archaeol.
Egypt/Egyptol, 1, 1-8. Helps, F. G. (2011). Ancient Egyptian Tool Technology. International
Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, 81(2), 233-243.
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Hernández, R.A.D.(2014). Der Ramesseumspapyrus E. Ein Ritualbuch für Bestattungen aus
dem Mittleren Reich. Gottingen 2014.
Ikram, S. (2010). Mummification. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 1(1).
Johnson, D., Tyldesley, J., Lowe, T., Withers, P. J., & Grady, M. M. (2013). Analysis of a
prehistoric Egyptian iron bead with implications for the use and perception of meteorite iron in
ancient Egypt, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48(6), 997-1006.
Leach, B. (2006). A Conservation History of the Ramesseum Papyri. The Journal of Egyptian
Archaeology, 92, 225-240.
Janes, G. (2012). The Shabti Collections: A Selection from Manchester Museum. Olicar House
Publications.
McCreesh, N.C., Gize, A.P. & David A.R. (2009). Analysis of black coatings on a mummy and
associated artefact from the Manchester Museum. In Gash, V; Finch, J. Current Research in
Egyptology 2008 Proceedings of the ninth annual symposium: Current Research in Egyptology
IX ; BAR; 2009.
McKnight, L. (2012). Studying Avian Mummies at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology:
Past, Present and Future. R. Bailleul- Leseur (ed.) Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient
Egypt (Oriental Institute, Chicago), 99- 106.
McKnight, LM and Atherton, SD. (2014). How to pigeonhole your mummy – a proposed
categorization system for ancient Egyptian wrapped animal remains based on radiographic
evaluation. Yearbook of Mummy Studies, 2. 109-116. Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, Munich.
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McKnight, L. M., Atherton, S. D., & David, A. R. (2011). Introducing the Ancient Egyptian Animal
Bio Bank at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester. Antiquity, 85,
329.
Panagiotakopulu, E., Higham, T. F.,
Buckland, P. C., Tripp, J. A., &
Hedges, R. E. (2014). AMS dating
of insect chitin- a discussion of new
dates, problems and
potential. Quaternary
Geochronology, 27, 22-32.
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Patenaude, J., & Shaw, G. J. (2011). A catalogue of Egyptian cosmetic palettes in the Manchester
University Museum collection. Golden House PublIcations.
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Price, C. & Criscenzo-Laycock, G. (2011). ACCES-ing Egyptian and Sudanese Collections in
the UK. Egyptian Archaeology, 39, 37.
Price, C. (2012). Foreword. Pp. ii-v in G. Janes, The Shabti Collections 5. A Selection from the
Manchester Museum. Otacer House.
Price, C. (2012). The Chantress Asru: The Manchester Mummies and Modern Science. Pp. 211213 in P. Bahn (ed.) Written in Bones. How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead. Quintet,
London.
Price, C. (2012). One Hundred Years of Displaying Egypt at the Manchester Museum. Ancient
Egypt Magazine 13(3), Dec 12/Jan 13, 32-37.
Price, C. (2013). Displaying Egypt and the Sudan at the Manchester Museum, Egyptian
Archaeology the Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society, 42 (Spring), 34-5.
Price, C. (2013). Under the Scanner, Revealing the Secrets of Egypt’s Ancient Dead, World
Archaeology, 61 (Oct/Nov.), 42-3.
Price, C. and M. Scott. (2015) The Egyptian Collection of Max Robinow in Manchester Museum,
in R. Mazza (ed.) From Egypt to Manchester. Special issue of the
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library.
Riggs, C. (2005). Ancient Egypt at the Manchester Museum. Egyptian Archaeology, 27, 37-9.
Riggs, C. (2014). Unwrapping Ancient Egypt. Bloomsbury, London.
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Riggs, C. (2014). Discussing Knowledge in the Making. Pp. 129- 140 in W. Carruthers (ed.)
Histories of Egyptology: interdisciplinary measures. Routledge, London.
Sheppard, K. L. (2012). Between Spectacle and Science: Margaret Murray and the Tomb of the
Two Brothers. Science in Context, 25(4), 525-549.
Sheppard, K. L. (2013). The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: a woman’s work in archaeology.
Lexington, Baltimore.
Sheppard, K. L. (2014). Margaret Alice Murray and Archaeological Training in the Classroom:
Preparing “Petrie’s Pups”. Pp. 113- 128 in W. Carruthers (ed.) Histories of Egyptology:
interdisciplinary measures. Routledge, London.
Snape, S. (2011). Ancient Egyptian Tombs: The Culture of Life and Death. Wiley-Blackwell
Wernick, N. (2014). Slings in the Ancient Near East with Reference to the Egyptian Material.
Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 96(1), 97-103.
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Wieczorkiewicz, A. (2005). Unwrapping mummies and telling their stories: Egyptian mummies in
museum rhetoric. Science, magic, and religion: The ritual processes of museum magic, 51-74.
Yasuoka, Y. (2011). Some remarks on the columns from the pronaos of Herakleopolis Magna.
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 97, 31-60.
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ENTOMOLOGY
The female holotype of Dysaulophthalma nathani, a newly described species and genus,
based on a specimen in the Museum’s collection of Mantises
During the period of review, the Museum’s collection of arthropods has been mostly used for
taxonomic/faunistic studies: 112 out of 122 published papers (92%). Several papers have been
devoted to the museological descriptions of particular collections (Johnson, 2009; Higham,
2012; Proudlove & Logunov, 2011; etc.) or the story of such notable specimens as the
Manchester Moth (Logunov, 2011). Most of the published taxonomic papers have been devoted
to spiders (Araneae; 27 papers, 23% of all papers), reflecting the interests of the Curator, and to
beetles (Coleoptera; 60 papers, 49%); a total of 87 papers (71%). Almost a half of the published
beetle papers (47%) have been devoted either to the rove-beetles (Staphylinidae; 15 papers,
25% of all beetle papers), or to the tortoise-beetles (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae; 13 papers,
22%). It is hardly surprising, as the Manchester Museum’s collection of Staphylinidae,
particularly that of Horace Last, is one of the best in the UK, while the collection of Cassidinae is
the second best in the world, and both have been extensively used by overseas researchers.
Of the interesting and novel to the Manchester Museum research undertaken by overseas
specialists, which are largely based on undetermined museum collections, it is worth mentioning
a series of six papers devoted to the African and Oriental tiger-moths (Erebidae) by V. V.
Dubatolov (Russia), four papers devoted to the mantis (Mantodea) by M. Stiewe (Germany) and
some papers devoted to such ‘exotic’ groups as the stick-insects (Phasmida; 3 papers),
cockroaches (Dictyoptera; 1 paper + ongoing research) and crickets (Orthoptera; 1 paper +
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ongoing research).
Finally, a total of 49 new species has been described on the basis of the Museum’s old
undetermined collections or those deposited to it recently: spiders (Araneae) – eight new
species; mites (Acari) – two species; beetles (Coleoptera) – 33 species; and other insect orders
(Mantodea, Orthoptera,
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Dyctiopera, etc.) – six species. Moreover, five new genera have been erected on the basis of
museum insect collections: Dysaulophthalma of the mantis from India (Stiewe, 2009),
Indoapterolampra of the cockroaches from India (Anisyutkin, 2014), Logunovium and Radiarctia of
the tiger moths from Africa (Dubatolov, 2006a), and Guineella of the rove-beetles from New
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Guinea (Bordoni, 2014).
Arachnida
Azarkina, G. N. (2009). Two new species of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae,
Salticidae) from Africa. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology, 5: 171-177.
Azarkina, G. N., & Mirshamsi, O. (2014). Description of a new Aelurillus species from Khorasan
province of Iran, with comments on A. concolor Kulczy ski, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae). Zoology in
the Middle East, 60(1), 82-91.
Esyunin, S. L. & Tuneva, T. K. (2012). On two rare spider species of the genus Alopecosa
Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the South Urals. Arthropoda Selecta, 21(3): 269-272.
Fiser, C. & Azarkina, G. N. (2005). A contribution to the knowledge of the jumping spiders
(Salticidae: Araneae) of the Republic of Macedonia. Acta zoologica bulgarica, 57(3), 299-304.
Fomichev A. A., Marusik, Yu. M. & Koponen, S. (2014). A new species of Xysticus C.L. Koch,
1835 (Aranei: Thomisidae) from South Siberia. Arthropoda Selecta, 23(2): 127-134.
Kronestedt, T., Marusik, Yu. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2014). Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa
groups (Araneae, Lycosidae). VIII. The Palaearctic species of the Pardosa nigra group. Zootaxa,
3894(1): 33-60.
Logunov, D. V. (2005). New data for spiders and harverstmen from Scotland. Newsletters of the
British arachnological Society, 102: 3-4. 112.
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Logunov, D. V. (2006). Notes on Xysticus kempeleni Thorell, 1872 and two closely related spider
species (Araneae, Thomisidae). Acta Arachnologica, 55(1), 59-66.
Logunov, D. V. & Huseynov, E.F. (2008). A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae
(Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta, 17(1/2): 117-131.
Logunov, D. V. (2009). New and poorly known species of Salticidae (Araneae) from Turkey and
Iran. In: C. Kropf & P. Horak (eds.), Towards a natural history of arthropods and other
organisms. In memoriam Konrad Thaler. Contributions to Natural History, 12: 899-919.
Logunov, D. V. (2010). New species of Zodariidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from Vietnam. Arthropoda
Selecta, 19(4): 249-260.
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Logunov, D. V. (2010). On a small spider collection from the lower reaches of the River Ob’,
western Siberia (Russia). Newsletters of the British arachnological Society, 118: 11.
Logunov, D. V. (2010). On new central Asian genus and species of wolf spiders (Araneae:
Lycosidae) exhibiting a pronounced sexual size dimorphism. Proceedings of the Zoological
Institutes RAS, 314(3): 233-263.
Logunov, D. V. (2011). On a small spider (Araneae) collection from the Pirin Mountains,
Bulgaria. Newsletters of the British arachnological Society, 122: 8-9.
Logunov, D. V. (2012). Notes on a small spider collection from Turkey (Arachnida: Aranei).
Arthropoda Selecta, 21(4): 375-377.
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Logunov, D. V. (2012). A synopsis of the genus Zyuzicosa Logunov, 2010 (Aranei: Lycosidae).
Arthropoda Selecta, 21(4): 349-362.
Logunov, D. V. (2013). A new species of the genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Lycosidae)
from south-east Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta, 22(2): 163-169.
Logunov, D.V. (2013). On a small spider collection from Cyprus (Arachnida: Araneae).
Newsletters of the British arachnological Society, 127: 4-5.
Logunov, D. V., & Demir, H. (2006). Further faunistic notes on Cozyptila and Xysticus from
Turkey (Araneae,
Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 31, 38-43.
Logunov, D. V., & Gromov, A. V. (2011). Notes on the distribution of Oculicosa supermirabilis
(Araneae, Lycosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 42, 48-51.
Logunov, D. V., Mirshamsi, O., Musavi, S. & Shayestehfar, A. (2013). New faunistic records of
Salticidae (Aranei) from Khorasan Province of Iran. Arthropoda Selecta, 22(4): 379-381.
Makol, J., Felska, M., Moniuszko, H. & Zalesny, G. (2012). Redescription of Leptus kattikus
Haitlinger, 2009 (Actinotrichida, Parasitengona, Erythraeidae) and molecular identification of its
host from DNA barcoding. Zootaxa, 3569: 67-78.
Marchenko, I. V. (2013). A new species of Gamasiphis Berlese (Acari: Ologamasidae) from North
Asia, with a key to the Eurasian species. Zootaxa 3626(3): 381-390.
Marchenko, I. V. (2013). A new species of Gamasiphis Berlese (Acari: Ologamasidae) from
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Russia (Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) with a key to the Asian species. Zootaxa, 3741(1): 172-180.
Marusik, Yu. M., Gnelitsa, V. A. & Koponen, S. (2007). A survey of Holarctic Linyphiidae
(Aranei). 4. A review of the erigonine genus Lophomma Menge, 1868. Arthropoda Selecta, 15(2):
153-171.
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Marusik, Yu. M., Gnelitsa, V. A. & Koponen, S. (2008). A survey of Holarctic Linyphiidae
(Araneae). 3. A review of the genus Praestigia Millidge, 1954. Bulletin of the British Arachnological
Society, 14(5): 213- 231.
Marusik, Yu. M. & Logunov, D.V. (2011). New faunistic records of spiders from East Kazakhstan
(Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta, 20(1): 57-63.
Oxford, G. S. (2009). Historical distributions in Britain of two species of large house spiders,
Tegenaria saeva and T. gigantea (Araneae, Agelenidae), and their evolutionary implications.
Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 14(7), 297-302.
Pietzsch, M. E., Medlock, J. M., Jones, L., Avenell, D., Abbott, J., Harding, P., & Leach, S.
(2005). Distribution of Ixodes ricinus in the British Isles: investigation of historical records. Medical
and Veterinary entomology, 19(3), 306- 314.
Russell-Smith A. (2014). Spiders from the Ionian islands of Kerkyra (Corfu) and Lefkada,
Greece (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta, 23(3): 285-300.
Tanasevitch, A. B. (2011). On synonymy of linyphiid spiders of the Russian fauna (Arachnida:
Aranei: Linyphiidae). 2. Arthropoda Selecta, 20(2): 129-143.
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Insecta (Coleoptera)
Assing, V. (2012). A revision of East Palaearctic Lobrathium (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae:
Paederinae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin, 61(1): 49-128.
Assing, V. (2014a). A revision of Palaearctic and Oriental Pseudolathra. IV. New species, new
combinations and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische
Beiträge, 46(2): 1151-1166.
Assing, V. (2014b). A revision of Tetartopeus. IV. A new species from Turkey, new synonyms,
and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge, 46(2):
1119- 1131.
Assing, V. (2014c). A revision of the species of Pinobius Macleay, 1871 of the Oriental,
Palaearctic, and Australian Regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Dolicaonina).
Koleopterologische Rundschau, 84, 115-191.
Bonavita, P. & Taglianti, A. V. (2010). Ocydromus subg. Nepha Motschulsky, 1864: revisione
tassonomica, filogenesi e biogeografia (Coleoptera Carabidae). Memorie della Società
Entomologica Italiana, 89(1), 7-180.
Bordoni, A. (2014). Xantholini of the Australian region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), VI. Species
from New Guinea of the Last collection in the Manchester Museum. New genus, new species
and new records. In: Telnov D. ed.) Biodiversity and Nature
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conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea, volume II, 135-143.
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Borowiec, L. (2005). Revision of Madagascan species of the genus Chiridopsis Spaeth, 1922
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Annales Zoologici, 55(3), 383-393.
Borowiec, L. & Świętoja ska, J. (2011). The Tortoise beetles of Madagascar (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Part 1: Basiprionotini, Aspidimorphini and Cassidini (except the genus
Cassida). Wroclaw: Polish Taxonomical Monographs, vol. 18, 246 pp.
Borowiec, L. & Świętoja ska, J. (2013). The Tortoise beetles of Madagascar (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Part 2: Tribe Cassidini, the genus Cassida. Wroclaw: Polish Taxonomical
Monographs, vol. 20, 289 pp.
Boucher, S. (2005). Évolution et phylogénie des Coléopteres Passalidae (Scarapbaeoidea).
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 41(3-4): 239-604.
Caterino, M. S., Leschen, R. A. B. & Johnson, C. (2008). A new genus of Caenoscelini
(Cryptophagidae: Cryptophaginae) from California, with two new species. The Coleopterists
Bulletin, 62(4): 509- 523.
Chaboo, C. S. (2007). Biology and phylogeny of the Cassidinae
Gyllenhal sensu lato (tortoise and leaf-mining beetles) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Bulletin of the
Americanb Museum of Natural History, 305: 250 pp.
Clarke, D. J. (2011).Testing the phylogenetic utility of morphological character systems, with a
revision of Creophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society,
163: 723- 812.
Darby, M. (2014). Studies on Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 3: The genus Acrotrichis
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including twenty seven new species. Zootaxa, 3866(2): 151-201.
Darby, M. & Johnson, C. (2011). A review of Chilean Smicrus (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with nine
new species. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 147: 133-154.
Fabbri, R. (2005). Nueove specie di Chrysosimplocaria Paulus del Nepal e di Byrrhus Linnaeus
sottogenere Asiatobyrrhus Paulus del Pakistan (Coleoptera Byrrhidae). Annali Museo di Civico
Saci. Naturale di Ferrara, 6: 13-20.
Háva, J. (2010). Thorictus arabicus sp.nov., a new species from Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera:
Dermestidae: Thorictinae: Thoricnini). Latvijas Entomology, 49: 32-34.
Háva, J. (2011). Contribution to the Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from the Arabian peninsula–1.
Latvijas Entomologs, 50, 5-8.
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Háva, J. & Herrmann, A. (2010). New Faunistic Records of Dermestidae (76 Coleoptera) – Part
4. Latvijas Entomology, 48: 76-79.
Higham, D. (2012). The Manchester Museum’s Cassidinae Collection (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Genus, 23(3), 341- 361.
Hromádka, L. (2009). Revision of the Afrotropical species of the Philonthus nigriceps species group
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina). Studies and Reports of District Museum Prague-East,
Taxonomical series, 5(1-2), 115- 126.
Hromádka, L. (2010). Revision of Afrotropical species of the Philonthus quisquiliarius species
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group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina). Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series, 6(1-2), 95113.
Johnson, C. (2006). Notes on Palaearctic Cryptophagidae (Coleoptera) including lectotype
designations and new synonyms. Entomologist’s Gazette, 57: 51-68.
Johnson, C. (2007). A review of Migneauxia Jacquelin du Val, 1859 (col. Latridiidae) from the
Indian subcontinent. Latridiidae, 5: 4-6.
Johnson, C. (2007). Studies on Ptiliidae (Col.) from the Solomon Islands, 1. Entomologist’s
Monthly Magazine, 143: 213-226.
Johnson, C. (2008). Saproxylic Coleoptera from Calke, Chatsworth, Hardwick and Kedleston
parks,
Derbyshire, 1881-1999. The Coleopterist, 17(1): 23-41.
Johnson, C. (2009). British Coleoptera Collections in the Manchester Museum: first supplement.
The Coleopterist, 18(2): 77-79.
Johnson, C. (2012). A new Himalayan Sternodea species, together with notes and corrections on
Palaearctic Cryptophagidae (Coleoptera). Entomologist’s Gazette, 63: 267-272.
Johnson, C. (2012). Brachygluta klimschi Holdhaus, 1902 (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) in
England. The Coleopterist, 21(2): 103.
Johnson, C. (2012). New records and data on notable British Ptiliidae (Coleoptera).
Entomologist’s Gazette, 63: 63-68.
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Johnson, C. & Pal, T. K. (2008). Latridiidae (Coleoptera) from Mizoram, India. Latridiidae, 6: 4-7.
Johnson, C. & Rücker, W. H. (2011). Latridius regalis spec. nov.− eine neue Art der Gattung
Latridius (Coleoptera) aus Österreich. Latridiidae, 8: 21-23.
Johnson, C. & Skidmore, P. (2005). A new saproxylic species of Ptinellodes Matthews (Col.,
Ptiliidae) from Malawi. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 141: 121-123.
Krell, F. T., Johnson, C., Booth, R. & Mendel, H. (2005). The British
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Dienerella separanda (Reitter) is D. clathrata (Mannerheim): with a compilation of British records of
D. clathrata and D. elongata (Curtis) (Latridiidae). The Coleopterist, 14(3): 117-123.
Legalov, A. A. (2007). Leaf-rolling weevils (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae, Attelabidae) of the world fauna.
Novosibirsk: Agro-Siberia, 523 pp.
Legalov, A. A. (2007). Studies upon the genus Lagenoderus White (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
from Madagascar. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 7(2): 191-198.
Legalov, A. A. (2011). A new species of the genus Zherichiniletus Legalov, 2003 with systematic
notes on the tribes Sanyrevilleini, Auletini and Cesauletini (Coleoptera: Rhychitidae). Baltic
Journal of Coleopterology, 11(1), 93-104.
Majka, C. G., & Bousquet, Y. (2010). Monotomidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime provinces of
Canada. Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society, 6, 1-8.
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Majka, C. G., Johnson, C. & Langor, D. W. (2010). Contributions towards an understanding of
the Atomariinae (Coleoptera, Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada. ZooKeys, 35: 37-63.
Majka, C. G. & Sörensson, M. (2007). The Ptiliidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
(Coleoptera): new records and bionomic notes. Zootaxa, 1423, 27-38.
McLean, J. A., Behennan, A. L. & Fairbarns, M. (2009). Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
associated with Garry Oak Ecosystems on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. J.
Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia, 106: 47-51.
Morris, M. G. & Johnson, C. (2005). Sidebotham’s weevils (Curculionidae). The Coleopterist,
14(3): 101-113.
Orledge, G. M., Smith, P. A., & Reynolds, S. E. (2010). The non- pest Australasian fungivore Cis
bilamellatus Wood (Coleoptera: Ciidae) in northern Europe: spread dynamics, invasion success
and ecological impact. Biological invasions, 12(3), 515-530.
Otero, J. C. (2013). Cryptophagina (Coleoptera) de la región Paleárctica. Colepter. Monogr.
Vol.4. 295 pp.
Rossini, M., Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. & Mann, D. (2014). Onthophagus cerviconis Kirby, 1825, new
sysnonym under Onthophagus dama (Fabricius, 1798) (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae,
Scarabaeinae). ZooKeys, 419: 111- 115.
Rücker, W. H. & Johnson, C. (2007). Revision of Melanophthalma taurica (Mannerheim, 1844)
species-group and description of three new species. Latridiidae, 5: 11-24.
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Sekerka, L. (2007). Description of Cyrtonota caprishensis n. sp. from
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Peru together with a redescription of C. lurida (Spaeth, 1913) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:
Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini). Genus, 18(4), 671-676.
Sekerka, L. (2007). Detailed distribution of Cassida sanguinosa and C. leucanthemi (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 47: 203- 209.
Sekerka, L. (2008). Review of the genus Macromonycha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:
Cassidinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 48(1), 95-102.
Sekerka, L. (2008). Revision of the genus Pilemostoma Desbroches, 1891 (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini). Zootaxa, 1859: 40-48.
Sekerka, L. & Borowiec, L. (2008). Three new species of Cassida Linne, 1758 from India and
note on Thlaspida obenbergeri Spaeth, 1928 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Cassidini).
Annales Zoologici, 58(3):611-620.
Shin, C. & Chaboo, C. S. (2012). A revision and phylogenetic analysis of Stoiba Spaeth 1909
(Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). ZooKeys, 224: 1- 36.
Simões, M. (2014). Taxonomic review of the genus Paranota Monrós and Viana, 1949
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Dorynotini). The
Coleopterists Bulletin, 68(4): 631- 655.
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Simões, M. & Monne, M.L. (2014). Taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophalia Hope, 1839
(Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa, 3835(2): 151-197.
Simões M. & Sekerka L. (2014). Redescription of Heteronychocassis acuticollis Spaeth, 1915
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 68(3): 407-410.
Solodovnikov, A. Y. (2008). Review of the Oriental genus Anchocerus with the description of new
species and new combinations (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Insect Systematics &
Evolution, 39(3), 287-301.
Solodovnikov, A. Y. (2012). Revised concept of the genus Euryporus Erichson (Coleoptera,
Staphylinidae, Staphylininae) and phylogenetic significance of Staphylinini from New Guinea.
ZooKeys, 213: 51-62.
Solodovnikov, A. Y. & Schomann, A. (2009). Revised systematics and biogeography of
‘Quediina’ of sub- Saharan Africa: new phylogenetic insights into the rove beetle tribe
Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Systematic Entomology, 34: 443-466.
Stenhouse, D. (2006). Records of Agelastica alni (L.) (Chrysomelidae) in South Lancashire and
Cheshire in two successive years. The Coleopterist, 15(1): 21-24.
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Stenhouse, D.A. (2014). Orthochaetes setiger (Beck) (Curculionidae) and Amara praetermissa
(Sahlberg) (Carabidae) in Cheshire (VC58). The Coleopterist, 23(3):133.
Stenhouse, D. A. & Atherton, R.S. (2012). The first record of Sepedophilus bipunctatus
(Gravenhorst) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Cheshire (VC58) Lancashire. Journal of the
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Lancashire & Cheshire entomological society, 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010): 16.
Vickers, K. & Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. (2013). Insect invaders, seasonality and transhumant
pastotalism in the Icelandic shielding economy. Journal of Environmental Archaeology, 18(2): 165177.
Wagner, T. (2003). Revision of afrotropical Monolepta Chevrolat, 1837 (Coleoptera,
Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). – Part IV: Species with red head and thorax (including pronotum)
and black elytra or black with red apex, with description of new species. Annales du Musée Royal
de l'Afrique Centrale (Zoologie), 291: 37-89.
Insecta (Lepidoptera)
Dubatolov, V. V. (2005). On the status of the Australian genus Ardices Walker, 1855 with the
description of a new subgenus for A. curvata Donovan, 1805. Atalanta, 36(1/2): 173-179.
Dubatolov, V. V. (2006a). New genera and species of Arctiinae from the Afrotropical fauna
(Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, 27(3): 139-152.
Dubatolov, V. V. (2006b). On the generic status of the Afrotoropical Nyctemera species
(Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta, 37(1/2): 191- 205.
Dubatolov, V. V. (2013). A new genus of African tiger moths, with a review of the Amsacta
melanogastra Holland species group (Lepidoptera, Erebidae). Zootaxa, 3682(4), 579-583.
Dubatolov, V. & Holloway, J. D. (2007). A new species of the Creatonotos transiens-group
(Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bonner zoologische Beiträge, 55(2), 113- 121.
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Dubatolov, V. V. & Kishida, Y. (2005). A review of the genus Satara Walker, 1865, with
descriptions of a new subgenus and species (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Tinea, 18(4): 276-282.
Insecta (other orders)
Anisyutkin, L. (2014). On cockroaches of the subfamily Epilamprinae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae)
from South India and Sri Lanka, with descriptions of new taxa. Zootaxa, 3847(3): 301-332.
Boardman, P. (2005). A review of the known records of Phylidorea
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heterogyna (Bergroth, 1913) (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Great Britain. Dipterist Digest, 12: 83-86.
Boardman, P. (2007). A provisional account and atlas of the craneflies of Shropshire. Publisher: Pete
Boardman, 96 pp.
Bragg, P. E. (2007). A description of the male and egg of Sipyloidea acutipennis (Bates, 1865)
(Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae). Phasmid Studies, 16(1): 11-15.
Bragg, P. E. (2007). Biographies of Phasmatologists - 1. Henry Walter Bates. Phasmid Studies,
15(1 & 2): 1-4.
Gorochov, A. V. (2009). Sixth additions to the revision of Itarinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).
Zoosystematica Rossica, 18(2): 218–223.
Hennemann, F. H. & Conle, O. V. (2009). Studies on the genus Phasmotaenia Navas, 1907, with
the descriptions of five new species from the Solomon Islands, a revised key to the species and
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notes on its geographic distribution (Phasmatodea: “Anareolatae”: Phasmatidae s.l.:
Stephanacridini). Zootaxa, 2011: 1-46.
Logunov, D. V. (2010). On the collection of British Diptera in the Manchester Museum. Bulletin
of the Dipterists Forum, 69: 8-9.
Logunov, D. V. (2010). The Manchester Museum's Entomology Collections. Antenna, 34(4): 163167.
Logunov, D. V. (2011). Where are you from, the Manchester Moth? Micro Miscellanea,
Newsletters of the Manchester Microscopical & Natural History Society, 78: 10-12.
Logunov, D. V. (2012). British entomology collections of the Manchester Museum. Journal of the
Lancashire & Cheshire entomological society, 133 & 134 (2009 & 2010): 20-44.
Mukherjee, T.K., Stiewe, M.B.D. & Ghorai, N. (2010). A new species of praying mantis,
Ephestiasula woodmasoni n.sp. from Gujarat, India with a note on the location of types of some
Indian species (Mantodea: Hymenopodidae). Genus, 21(2): 169-173.
Notton, D. G. (2006). Genus-group taxa of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae &
Platygastridae) new to Britain. Entomologists’s monthly Magazine, 142: 189-206.
Penney, D., Notcutt, B. & Rowntree, J. K. (2012). Seed predation of yellow rattle Rhinanthus
minor by Phytomyza varipes (Diptera: Agromyzidae), with new British records. British Journal of
Entomology and Natural History, 26: 1-8.
Roy, R. & Stiewe, M. B. D. (2009). Contribution to the knowledge of Eastern African
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Amorphoscelis Stål, 1871, with description of two new species (Dictyoptera, Mantodea,
Amorphoscelidae). Bulletin de la
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Société entomologique de France, 114(2): 195-209.
Stiewe, M. (2009). Dysaulophthalma nathani gen et sp.n. A new praying mantis from southern
India (Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Tarachodidae). Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 145: 51-60.
Triapitsyn, S. V. (2010). Revision of the Palaearctic species and review of the Oriental species
of Ooctonus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), with notes on extralimital taxa. Zootaxa, 2381: 1-74.
Triapitsyn, S. V. (2014). Revision of the genus Camptoptera Foerster (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)
in the Palaearctic Region, with taxonomic notes on some extralimital species. Far Eastern
Entomologist, 285: 1- 85.
Vyajayandi, M. C., Stiewe, M. B. D., Mukherjee, T. K. & Rajeesh, R. S. (2008). On some
variation in Gimanis authaemon (Wood-Mason, 1882) collected from Kerala, India
(Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Mantidae). Genus, 19(2): 313-318.
Watts, P. C., Thompson, D. J., Allen, K. A. & Kemp, S. J. (2006). How useful is DNA extracted
from the legs of archived insects for microsatellite-based population genetic analyses? Journal of
Insect Conservation, 11(2), 195-198. DOI 10.1007/s10841-006-9024-y
Myriapoda
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Proudlove, G. S. (2011). Notes on authorship, type material and current systematic position of
the diplopod taxa described by Hilda K. Brade-Birks and S. Graham Brade- Birks. Bulletin of the
British Myriapod & Isopod Group, 25: 2-13.
Proudlove, G. S., & Logunov, D. V. (2011). Myriapodological resources in the Manchester
Museum. Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group, 25, 14-36.
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EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS & ENGAGEMENT
We have redisplayed our main natural historyand humanities galleries during the last five years.
Exhibitions
Alberti, S. J. M. M. (2008). Constructing nature behind glass. Museum and Society, 6(2), 73-97.
Alberti, S. J. M. M., Bienkowski, P., Chapman, M. J., & Drew, R. (2009). Should we display the
dead?. Museum and Society, 7(3), 133- 149.
Atkinson, R. (2012). Manchester Museum holds participatory musical weekend. Museum Practice
11.11.2014.
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Bankes, G. (2006). From Explorers and Encounters to Living Cultures. Journal of Museum
Ethnography, 18, 23-36.
Bennett, T. (2012). Machineries of modernity: museums, theories, histories. Cultural and Social
History, 9(1), 145-156.
Brown, P. (2011). Us and them: who benefits from experimental
exhibition making? Museum Management and Curatorship, 26(2), 129-148.
Burch, S. (2008). Lindow Man: a Bog Body Mystery: Manchester Museum puts display of human
remains centre stage. Museums Journal, 108(7), 50.
Day, J. (2014). Thinking makes it so: reflections on the ethics of displaying Egyptian mummies.
Papers on Anthropology, 23(1), 29- 44.
Donovan, S. K. (2011). Spineless displays or why inaccurate restorations of fossil invertebrates
discredit our museums. Geological Curators’ Group, 9(5), 279-284.
Endt, M. (2007). Beyond institutional critique: Mark Dion’s surrealist wunderkammer at the
Manchester Museum. Museum and Society, 5(1), 1-15.
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Edwards, FL (2007). Nomenclatio transitorius. Privately published.
Exell, K. (2013a). Community consultation and the redevelopment of Manchester Museum’s
Ancient Egypt Galleries. Pp. 130-142 in V. Golding and W. Modest (eds.), Museums and
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Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration. Bloomsbury.
Exell, K. (2013b). Domination and Desire: The Paradox of Egyptian Mummies in Museums, in P.
Harvey (ed.) Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion. London: Routledge.
Freak, D. (2013). Nature’s Library- review. Museums Journal, 113(11), 62-65.
Green, O. (2011). Living Worlds- review. Museums Journal, 111(6), 40-43.
Insoll, T., Kankpeyeng, B., Nkumbaan, S. and Saako, M. (2013). Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines
from Koma Land Ghana. University of Manchester Press, Manchester.
James, N. (2008). Repatriation, display and interpretation, Antiquity, 82, 770-777.
Jenkins, T. (2010). Contesting human remains in museum
collections: the crisis of cultural authority. Routledge.
Jones, D. G., & Whitaker, M. I. (2012). The contested realm of displaying dead bodies. Journal of
Medical Ethics, 39, 652-653.
Kennedy, S. (2012). Visitor services team. Museum Practice, 15.3.2012.
Lange, P. (2010). Bryan Sitch on Lindow Man at Manchester Museum. (Council for British
Archaeology, North West Spring meeting 2010). Greater Manchester Archaeology Federation
Newsletter, 1 (4), 13-15.
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K., Pettican, A., & Art, B. (2012, August). From Wunderkammern to
Kinect: the creation of Shadow Worlds. Leonardo, 45(4), 330-337.
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Machin, R. (2008). Gender representation in the natural history galleries at the Manchester
Museum. Museum and Society, 6(1), 54-67.
Machin, R. (2010). Gender representation in the natural history galleries at the Manchester
Museum. Pp. 187-200 in A Levin (ed.) Gender, Sexuality and Museums. Routledge, London.
McGhie, H. A. (2012). Living Worlds at the Manchester Museum. Pp. 222–253 in S. S. Jandl
and M. S. Gold (eds.), A Handbook for Academic Museums: Exhibitions and Education.
MuseumsEtc, London.
Giles, M. (2009). Iron Age bog
bodies of north-western Europe.
Representing the
dead. Archaeological
Dialogues, 16(1), 75-101.
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McGhie, H. A., Brown, P. R. & Horsley, J. (2010). Dealing with Darwin at the Manchester
Museum. Pp. 412-445 in A. Filippoupoliti (ed.) Science Museums: Communication and Evaluation.
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MuseumsEtc.
Morfoisse, F. and G. Andreu-Lanoë. (2014). Sésostris III. Pharaon de Légende. Snoeck, Palais des
Beaux Artes, Lille.
Oppenheim, A. (2015). Between the Old and the New. Middle Kingdom Egypt. Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Pantazis, S. (2013). We Face Forward: Art From West Africa Today (review). Nka: Journal of
Contemporary African Art, 32(1), 142-145.
Pole, L. (2014). Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana (Manchester
Museum, University of Manchester). Journal of Museum Ethnography, 27, 168-174.
Price, C. (2012). One Hundred Years of Displaying Egypt at the Manchester Museum. Ancient
Egypt Magazine 13(3), Dec 12/Jan 13, 32-37.
Price, C. (2013). Displaying Egypt and the Sudan at the Manchester Museum, Egyptian
Archaeology the Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society 42 (Spring), 34-35.
Rees Leahy, H. (2008). Under the skin. Museum Practice, 43, 36-40.
Sitch, B.J. (2009). Courting Controversy: the Lindow Man
Exhibition at the Manchester Museum. University Museums and Collections, 2, 51-54
Sitch, B.J. (2010). Consultation or confrontation: a case study of the Manchester Museum’s
Lindow Man a Bog Body Mystery. Pp. 366-386 in The New Museum Community Audiences,
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Challenges, Benefits. MuseumsEtc, London.
Sitch, B.J. (2010). Lindow Man Exhibition wins British Archaeological Award. Greater Manchester
Archaeology Federation Newsletter,
1(6), 7-8.
Sitch, B.J. (2012). Making Exhibitions of ourselves: recent and proposed archaeology displays
at the Manchester. In Wise, Philip J. (ed) The Museum Archaeologist, 33, (Conference
proceedings, Coventry 2010), 23-31.
Weeks, J. (2013). Ancient Worlds- review. Museums Journal, 113(2), 42-45.
Weeks, J. (2012). We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today. Museum Journal 112(9), 46- 49.
Welsh, S. (2009). The Manchester Gallery. In Roberts (ed.), Museums and Heritage, 2, 71.
Woodall, A. (2013). Sensory access to museum objects. Museum Practice 15.2.2013.
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Zeigler, C. (2008). Queens of Egypt. From Hetepheres to Cleopatra. Grimaldi Forum.
Froggett, L., & Trustram, M. (2014). Object relations in the museum: a psychosocial perspective.
Museum Management and Curatorship, 29(5), 482-497.
Merriman, N. (2008). Collective Conversations: new approaches to unifying the work of a
university museum. In New Roads for University Museums, 6th International Congress for University
Museums. University Museums & Collections, México: 225-244.
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Munro, M., & H. L. Chalk (2014). Creating an ‘Emporium of Wonder’ at Manchester Museum.
Pp. 243- 270 in P. Blessinger & J. M. Carfora (eds.), Inquiry-based Learning for Faculty and
Institutional Development: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators. Volume 1, Innovations in
Higher EducationTeaching and Learning. Emerald Group, Bingley (Yorks.).
Narkiss, I., & Tomlin, H. (2008). Close encounters: enabling access to museum collections.
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in the Twenty-First Century.
Ashgate, Aldershot.
Roe, B., McCormick, S., Lucas, T.,
Gallagher, W., Winn, A., & Elkin, S.
(2014). Coffee, cake and culture:
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Touch and the value of object
handling: final conclusions for a
new sensory museology. Pp. 275286 in H. Chatterjee (ed.), Touch in
museums: policy and practice in
object handling. Berg, Oxford.
Tythacott, L. & Arvanitis, K. (eds.) (2014). Museums and Restitution. Ashgate, Farnham.
Sportun, S. (2014). The Future Landscape of 3D in Museums. Pp. 331-340 in N. Levent & A.
Pascual- Leone (eds.), The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound,
Smell, Memory, and Space. Reowland and Middlefield, Lanham.
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LIVING CULTURES COLLECTIONS
The Living Cultures collection has been, and continues to be, used extensively by staff and
students at The University of Manchester for a multitude of research projects. Similarly it is used
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by researchers beyond the University of Manchester in organisations across North West
England, the UK and overseas. In general the research fields accessing the collection include
archaeology, art gallery and museum studies, art history, anthropology, media production, social
anthropology, social history, and fashion. The result of such research is further critical
information regarding the age, biography, material, provenance, and significance of a specific
object or the collections. To achieve these results various methodologies are used including
material sampling, laser scanning, and access to associated archives.
In 2011 Tim Insoll, Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology at the University of
Manchester, investigated the faunal remains of a Tanzanian diviner's basket. He sent the basket
contents including bone, mineral and plant samples to colleagues at the School of Earth,
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences University of Manchester, Jodrell Laboratory Royal
Botanic Gardens Kew, and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences for analysis and
identification. Also in 2011, Joanna Ostapkowicz, Curator Americas collection, World Museum
Liverpool, scanned and sampled a rare wooden Taino duho. Samples were sent for analysis to
the University of Bristol School of Chemistry, the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit Research
Laboratory for Archaeology, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The
results helped determine the use and age of the object.
Alisa LaGamma, Curator Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and Ellen Howe a
Conservator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, visited Manchester Museum in
2013 to research the Mangaaka power figure. This was in preparation for a loan of the power
figure to the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015 exhibition Power and Majesty: The Art of Kongo
Masters. The exhibition and research connects Mangaaka power figures in New York, Chicago,
Dallas, Detroit, Paris, Brussels, Basel, Zug, Berlin, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Mainz, Leiden, Rotterdam,
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Rome, Liverpool, and Manchester. It furthers understanding of the role and composition of
power figures.
Alberti, S. J. (2006). Culture and nature: The place of anthropology in the Manchester Museum.
Journal of Museum Ethnography, 18, 7-21.
Bankes, G. (2009). ‘Collecting Contemporary pottery in and
around Cuenca, southern Ecuador in 1997’, Journal of Museum Ethnography, 21, 227-240.
Brock, F., Bronk Ramsey, C. , Higham, T., Lucejko, J.J., Ostapkowicz, J., Ribechini, E.,
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Wiedenhoeft, A.C., & Wilson, S. (2012). Chronologies in wood and resin: AMS 14C dating of
pre- Hispanic Caribbean wood sculpture. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39, 2238- 2251.
Dion, M., Lomas, D., Dezeuze, A., & Kelly, J. (2005). Bureau of the Centre for the Study of
Surrealism and Its Legacies (Vol. 4). Book Works.
Hogsden, C., & Poulter, E. K. (2012). The real other? Museum objects in digital contact
networks. Journal of Material Culture, 17(3), 265-286.
Longair, S., & McAleer, J. (2013). Introduction: Shifting Interpretations of Empire, Museum
History Journal, 6(1), 3-5.
Lynch, B. T., & Alberti, S. J. (2010). Legacies of prejudice: racism, co- production and radical
trust in the museum. Museum Management and Curatorship, 25(1), 13-35.
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Pantazis, S. (2013). We Face Forward: Art From West Africa Today (review), Nka: Journal of
Contemporary African Art, 32(1), 142-145.
Poulter, E. K. (2013). Silent Witness: Tracing Narratives of Empire through Objects and Archives
in the West African Collections at the Manchester Museum. Museum History Journal, 6(1), 6-22.
Vincent, J. (2014) Lgbt People and the UK Cultural Sector: The Response of Libraries,
Museums, Archives and Heritage Since 1950
Welsh, S. (2010). Cover Up. In Poole, (ed), Slashstroke, 3, 16-17.
Welsh, S. (2012). Tipis and a Totem Pole in Salford, Greater Manchester. Journal of Museum
Ethnography, 25, 163-171.
Archery
Hodkinson, A .W. & Welsh S. (2011). A Pair of Crossbow-Stand Fittings and a Different Type of
Throwing Arrow. Arrowhead, 117, 6-7.
Hodkinson, A W. (2011). Touhu: Three Millennia of the Chinese Arrow Vase and the Game of
Pitch- Pot. Arrowhead, 118, 17-19.
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MUSEUM PRACTICE
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Lynch, B. (2014). Whose Cake is it
Anyway? Paul Hamlyn
Foundation.
Besterman, T. (2009). Returning a
stolen generation. Museum
International,61(1-2), 107-111.
Lynch, B. (2014) Challenging
Ourselves: Uncomfortable Histories
and Current Museum Practice.
Chapter 6 in J. Kidd, S. Cairns, A.
Drago, A. Ryall & M. Stearn (eds.)
Challenging History in the Museum:
international perspectives. Ashgate,
London.
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Besterman, T. (2014). Crossing the
Line: Restitution and Cultural
L. Tythacott & K. Arvanitis (eds.), Museums and
Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. Ashgate, Farnham.
Bienkowski, P. (2014). Authority and the Power of Place: Exploring the Legitimacy of Authorized
and Alternative Voices in the Restitution Discourse. Pp. 37-54 in L. Tythacott & K. Arvanitis
(eds.), Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. Ashgate, Farnham.
Equity. Pp. 19-35 in
Lynch B., (2008) The Amenable
Object: Working with Diaspora
Communities through a
psychaonalysis of touch. Pp. 261MM APR 2015
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272 in H. Chatterjee (ed.), Touch in
Museums: policy and practice in
object handling. Berg, Oxford.
Lynch, B. (2011). Collaboration,
contestation, and creative conflict:
On the efficacy of
museum/community
partnerships.Pp. 146-163 in J.
Marstine (ed.), The Routledge
Companion to Museum Ethics:
Redefining ethics for the twenty-first
century museum. Routledge,
London.
Lynch, B. T., & Alberti, S. J. (2010).
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Legacies of prejudice: racism, coproduction and radical trust in the
museum. Museum Management
and Curatorship, 25(1), 13-35.
Merriman, N. (2008). Museum collections and sustainability. Cultural Trends, 17(1), 3-21.
Merriman, N. (2012). Transforming the Manchester Museum. In Jandl, S. & Gold, M. (eds.)
Beyond Exhibitions and Education. A Handbook for Academic Museums Volume 2. Museums Etc,
London.
Merriman, N. 2015. The Future of Collecting in ‘Disciplinary’ Museums: Interpretive, Thematic,
Relational. In McCarthy, C. (ed.) Museum Practice. Volume 2 in International Handbooks of
Lynch, B. T. (2011). Custom-made
reflective practice: can museums
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others realise theirs? Museum
Management and
Curatorship, 26(5), 441-458.
Lynch, B. (2013). Reflective debate,
radical transparency and trust in the
museum. Museum Management
and Curatorship, 28(1), 1-13.
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Museum Studies. John Wiley, New York: 249-265.
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ZOOLOGY
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A type specimen of the Warbler Finch, collected on the Galapagos by Charles Darwin in 1835 on the
Voyage of the Beagle (photograph by Pauline Neild).
The zoology collections featured in 112 publications during 2005-14. Almost half of these (43%)
related to the collection of bird skins, skeletons and eggs; molluscs formed the basis of 19% of
publications; bryozoa (colonial marine animals) formed the basis of 15% of publications, and
mammals formed the basis of 13% of publications. These figures reflect the relative significance
of our various collections: our bird collection is within the top five in the UK, and our collections
of molluscs and, especially, bryozoa are very rich in type specimens, the specimens that define
scientific names.
In terms of subjects covered, distribution and faunistics form the basis of many publications
(22%), where researchers incorporate distributional records based on specimens in the Museum
collection. Taxonomy and systematics are another popular subject drawing on the collection
(20% of publications), drawing especially on the collections of Bryozoa and Molluscs, of which
we have very significant numbers of type specimens. Projects that are specifically related to
conservation biology are relatively small in number, but especially important in terms of their
wider impact; many projects that relate to distribution and to ecology also have direct
conservation applications. A significant number of publications relate to the history of the
Museum and about collectors (21%), reflecting interest in both our practices and the importance
of our donors and other associated people.
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In terms of key pieces of research, collections of Brown-lipped Snails from the UK collected
during the latter part of the 20th century demonstrated evolutionary change in shell colour and
patterning at all levels, including site, habitat and continent-wide scales. Data associated with
specimens was used to demonstrate declines in large mammals in India and to map current
diversity of birds in tropical Africa and Central America.
Mammals
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Alberti, S. J. (2005). Objects and the museum. Isis, 96(4), 559-571.
Alberti, S. J. (Ed.). (2011). The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie. University of Virginia
Press, Richmond.
Dudley (ed.) Museum Objects: experiencing the properties of things. Routledge, London.
Alberti, S., & Winn, A. A Tiger in the Library. NatScA News, 19, 72-76..
Andrews, E. (2012). Reflexive displays: interpreting taxidermy practice. NatSCA News, 23, 59-63.
Alberti, S. J. J. M. (2012). Preparing and conserving. Pp. 90-94 in S. H. Andrews, E. (2014),
Reflections on Shifts in the Display and Use of Taxidermy in Contemporary Museums in
Northern England. Taxidermist, 37, 8-10.
Brassey, C. A., Kitchener, A. C., Withers, P. J., Manning, P. L., & Sellers, W. I. (2013). The role
of cross-sectional geometry, curvature, and limb posture in maintaining equal safety factors: a
computed tomography study. The Anatomical Record, 296(3), 395- 413.
Buckley, M. (2013). A molecular phylogeny of Plesiorycteropus reassigns the extinct mammalian
order ‘Bibymalagasia’. PloS one, 8(3), e59614.
Colley, A. C. (2014). Portrait, empire and industry at Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester. Victorian
Literature and Culture, 42(2), 167- 186.
Dahlbom, T. (2009). Matter of fact: biographies of zoological
specimens. Museum History Journal, 2(1), 51-72.
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Everest, S. (2011). Under the skin: the biography of the Manchester Mandrill. Pp. 75-91 in S. J.
J. M. Alberti (ed.) The Afterlives of Animals. University of Virginia Press, London.
Gardiner, J. D., Codd, J. R., & Nudds, R. L. (2011). An association between ear and tail
morphologies of bats and their foraging style. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 89(2), 90-99.
Gardiner, J. D., Dimitriadis, G., Sellers, W. I., & Codd, J. R. (2008). The aerodynamics of big
ears in the brown long-eared bat Plecotus auritus. Acta Chiropterologica, 10(2), 313-321.
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Gardiner, J. D., Dimitriadis, G., Codd, J. R., & Nudds, R. L. (2011). A potential role for bat tail
membranes in flight control. PloS one, 6(3), e18214.
Jenkins, P. D., & Carleton, M. D. (2005). Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major's expedition to
Madagascar, 1894 to 1896: beginnings of modern systematic study of the island's mammalian
fauna. Journal of Natural History, 39(20), 1779- 1818.
Jordan, N. R., Messenger, J., Turner, P., Croose, E., Birks, J., & O’Reilly, C. (2012). Molecular
comparison of historical and contemporary pine marten (Martes martes) populations in the British
Isles: evidence of differing origins and fates, and implications for conservation management.
Conservation Genetics, 13(5), 1195-1212.
Karanth, K. K., Nichols, J. D., Karanth, K. U., Hines, J. E., & Christensen, N. L. (2010). The
shrinking ark: patterns of large mammal extinctions in India. Proceedings of the Royal Society B:
Biological Sciences, B. 277: 1971- 1979.
Mani, F. (2012). British hunters in colonial India, 1900-1947: the gentleman hunter, new
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technology, and growing conservationist awareness. Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies,
4(1), 69-87.
Morris, P. (2012). The Afterlives of Animals. A Museum Menagerie.
Journal of the History of Collections, 24(2), 277-278.
Birds
Bates, K. T., Manning, P. L., Hodgetts, D., & Sellers, W. I. (2009). Estimating mass properties of
dinosaurs using laser imaging and 3D computer modelling. PLoS One, 4(2), e4532.
Birkhead, T. (2010). The Magpies: the ecology and behaviour of Black- billed and Yellow-billed
Magpies. A&C Black, London.
Buchanan, G. M., Grant, M. C., Sanderson, R. A., & Pearce- Higgins, J. W. (2006). The
contribution of invertebrate taxa to moorland bird diets and the potential implications of land-use
management. Ibis, 148(4), 615-628.
Combridge, P., & Castle, P. Should the Amesbury Hawk Owl remain on the Wiltshire List? A
personal view. Hobby, 38, 109-118.
Cotterill, F. P. D. (2006). Taxonomic status and conservation importance of the avifauna of
Katanga (south- east Congo Basin) and its environs. Ostrich-Journal of African Ornithology, 77(12), 1-21.
Craig, A., & Feare, C. (2010). Starlings and Mynas. A&C Black, London.
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Davison, G. W. H. (2013). Dresser, Seebohm, and the scope of Palaearctic ornithology. The
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 29, 259-268.
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Dean, W. R. J., Sandwith, M., & Milton, S. J. (2006). The bird collections of CJ Andersson in
southern Africa, 1850-1867. Archives of Natural History, 33(1), 159-171.
Dickinson, E. C., Loskot, V. M., Morioka, H., Somadikarta, S., & van den Elzen, R. (2006).
Systematic notes on Asian birds. 50. Types of the Aegithalidae, Remizidae and Paridae.
Zoologische Mededelingen, 80(5), 65.
Dickinson, E. C., Loskot, V., Morioka, H., Somadikarta, S., & van den Elzen, R. (2006).
Systematic notes on Asian birds. 66. Types of the Sittidae and Certhidae. Zoologische
Mededelingen, 80(5), 287.
Dougall, T. W., Holland, P. K., & Yalden, D. W. (2010). The population biology of Common
Sandpipers in Britain. British Birds, 103, 100-114.
Ennos, R., Van Casteren, A., Codd, J., Gardiner, J., & McGhie, H. (2009). How the snipe makes
its drumming sound. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative
Physiology, 153(2), S114-S115.
Eubanks, T. L., Behrstock, R. A., & Weeks, R. J. (2006). Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the
Upper Texas Coast (Vol. 10). A&M University Press, Texas.
Expósito, C. G., Copete, J. L., Crochet, P.-A., Qninba, A. &
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Garrido, H. (2011). History, status and distribution of Andalusian Buttonquail in the WP. Dutch
Birding 33, 73-93.
Flood, R. L. (2009). 'All-dark' Oceanodroma storm-petrels in the Atlantic and neighbouring seas.
British Birds, 102(7), 365.
Gilby, A. J., Pryke, S. R., & Griffith, S. C. (2009). The historical frequency of head-colour morphs
in the Gouldian Finch (Erythrura gouldiae). Emu, 109(3), 222-229.
Green, R. E. (2008). Demographic mechanism of a historical bird population collapse
reconstructed using museum specimens. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,
275(1649), 2381-2387.
Hernández, M., González, L. M., Oria, J., Sánchez, R., & Arroyo, B. (2008). Influence of
contamination by organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls on the breeding of the
Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 27(2), 433-441.
Jacobsen, K.-O. (2005). Snøugle (Bubo scandiacus) i Norge [Snowy Owl in Norway]. NINA
Rapport 84.
Jansen, J. J. F. J. & Viek, R. (2010). Joseph Baker, een Engelse vogelverzamelaar in Nederland
in het midden van de negentiende eeuw [Joseph Baker, an English ornithologist in the
Netherlands in the middle of the 19th century]. Limosa, 83, 176-182.
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Jansen, J. J. F. J. (2012). William Bridger (1832-1870), collector of birds eggs in Australia and
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the Netherlands. Archives of Natural History, 39(1), 174-176.
Jansen, J. J. F. J. (2013). Kleinst Waterhoen in Nederland: voorkomen en herziening van
gevallen in 1800-2006 [Baillon’s Crake in the Netherlands: occurrence and revision of records in
1800-2006]. Dutch Birding, 35(5), 311-322.
Jansen, J. J. F. J. (2014). A review of the identification criteria and variability of the Slenderbilled Curlew. British Birds, 107, 339-370.
Jansen, J. J. F. J. (2014). Former breeding of Eurasian Golden Plover, Dunlin and Wood
Sandpiper in Limburg and Noord-Brabant. Dutch Birding, 36, 9-19.
Jansen, J. J. F. J., & Nap, W. (2008). Identification of White- headed Long-tailed Bushtit and
occurrence in the Netherlands. Dutch Birding, 30, 293-308.
Kennerley, P. R., Bakewell, D. N., & Round, P. D. (2008). Rediscovery of a long-lost Charadrius
plover from South-East Asia. Forktail, 24, 63-79.
Kirwan, G. M. (2004). The taxonomic position of the Afghan Scrub Sparrow Passer (moabiticus)
yatii. Sandgrouse, 26(2), 105-111.
Kirwan, G. M. (2006). Comments on two subspecies of passerine
birds recently described from Turkey, Eremophila alpestris kumerloevei and Pyrrhula pyrrhula
paphlagonia with remarks on geographical variation in related forms of Bullfinch from the Balkans
and Caucasus. Sandgrouse, 28(1), 12-23.
Kirwan, G., Demirci, B., Welch, H., Boyla, K., Özen, M., Castell, P., & Marlow, T. (2009). The
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Birds of Turkey: the distribution, taxonomy and breeding of Turkish birds. A&C Black.
Kobelkowsky-Vidrio, T., Ríos- Muñoz, C. A., & Navarro-Sigüenza, A. G. Biodiversity and
biogeography of the avifauna of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Biodiversity and
Conservation, 23(8), 1-19.
Marquiss, M., Newton, I., Hobson, K. A., & Kolbeinsson, Y. (2012). Origins of irruptive
migrations by common crossbills Loxia curvirostra into northwestern Europe revealed by stable
isotope analysis. Ibis, 154(2), 400-409.
McGhie, H. A. (2005). Specimens of extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The
Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, UK. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’
Club, 125(4), 247-252.
McGhie H. A. (2006). Henry Dresser and his Russian correspondents. Our Birds, 2-3(32- 33),
54-55. (in Russian)
McGhie, H. A. (2009). Letters from Alfred Russel Wallace concerning
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the Darwin commemorations of 1909. Archives of Natural History, 36(2), 352-354.
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Corals & other invertebrates
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Echinoderms
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