Events and exhibitions
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Manchester Digital Exhibitions
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Regular activities
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The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Fossil Histories: South Asian Natural Heritage in the Manchester Museum and Beyond
25 April 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
Join us online to explore fossils from the Indian subcontinent which are commonly found, if not always exhibited, in many natural history museums around the world. The collections.. -
We Have Always Been Here: LGBTQ+ Voices
2 May 2024, 2.30pm-4pm
Join us at the Library to delve deeper into the stories behind our ‘We Have Always Been Here’ exhibition, we are offering a free collections encounter; a chance to view unseen.. -
Collection Encounter: The Gospel of Mary
15 May 2024, 3pm-4.30pm
The Rylands holds one of only two Greek copies of the important manuscript, the Gospel of Mary. A papyrus which challenges the conventional Christian narrative that often marginali.. -
Decoding Codices: Mesoamerican Manuscripts and Indigenous Knowledge
22 May 2024, 2pm-4pm
Did you know that the Northwest of England holds some of the rarest Indigenous manuscripts that have survived the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, as well as other important M.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar: Ancient and Modern Lives of an Ancient Egyptian Papyrus
23 May 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
Papyrus Rylands "Demotic 9" is a long (ca. 4.5 m) papyrus roll found as part of a group with other eight papyri in the ruins of el-Hibeh, Middle Egypt. This remarkable group of pap.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Translation, Teleology & Technology- Digital Humanities Studies of the Ancient World
30 May 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
This online talk will focus on the John Rylands Library's rare copy of the medieval Arabic translation of On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body by Galen of Pergamum (d. ca. 21.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: The Making of the Cranach Workshop’s Copy of the Armorial of Bianca Maria Sforza (Rylands German MS 2)
6 June 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
We'll be joined by researcher Ben Pope for this online talk focussing on Elector August of Saxony (1526–86) who, in 1565 commissioned Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–86) to mak.. -
Visit the John Rylands Research Institute and Library
14 August - 21 December 2024,
Building work is taking place at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library as part of the John Rylands Next Chapter project. We are still open and invite you to join us for..