Another Hectic Day at MOSI!

A hectic day at MOSI today as staff from across the Museum have been working feverishly to prepare for a variety of projects and events – including the long term gallery developments and events scheduled to open this very weekend!

This afternoon, groups of MOSI staff had their first official tours of the new Experiment gallery as work continued to complete the gallery in time for the provisional preview opening date of December 11th. Positive feedback was unanimous from the staff and we are all eagerly anticipating our visitors’ reactions come the opening date. For a taste of what you can expect, click here for the latest Experiment photographic update.

Meanwhile, on the Ground Floor of the Great Western Warehouse, work in the Revolution Manchester gallery is reaching fever pitch as the installation of this amazing gallery continues. The fit-out contractors from 24 Design have been working steadily away in the gallery for quite some time, installing timber supporting structures and frames and handrails throughout the gallery. Over the past two weeks, they have been joined by staff from the MOSI Collections department and our dedicated teams of volunteers who have been extremely busy bringing in just some of the iconic exhibits that will now call the Revolution Manchester gallery home. As we promised yesterday, our visit to Revolution Manchester did not go undocumented, click here for our latest photographic update. For information on how you can be star in Revolution Manchester, click here.

Elsewhere at the Museum, staff from our Development team have been scurrying away to create a Santa’s Grotto in our historic Station Building. As we blogged earlier this week, our Grotto is just one of many events that we have planned for festive period. Our Festive Grotto he will be open at weekends throughout December and it promises to be a quite incredible and unique opportunity to meet Santa with such a momentous backdrop.

If you are visiting MOSI this weekend, don’t forget to share your experiences and photographs with us and the rest of the MOSI Facebook community by joining our Facebook fan page. Our photo competition returns on Monday due to popular demand so get submitting those pictures for the chance to have your photograph represent the Museum on Facebook and Twitter.

That is all from the MOSI Blog team this week; we hope you have a wonderful weekend. Check back next week for more news from your favourite museum.

MOSI: A Winter Wonderland

Given the weather, it is perhaps unsurprising that there is a winter theme to today’s blog. To date Central Manchester has been relatively unscathed by the blizzards hitting the UK. However, the weather has had its impact – the team working on graphics for the Experiment gallery have been caught in 12 inches of snow in Sheffield – meaning that work on the gallery has been restricted to the installation of exhibits. As a result there is a lack of obvious visual progress, meaning we’ve only got a very brief photographic update from within Experiment. We don’t like our blog fans to feel short changed so we have thrown in some bonus images of a somewhat beautiful, snow covered MOSI taken from within the Great Western Warehouse and the rest of the Museum.

Earlier today the MOSI Blog team had the privilege of being the first members of staff to view our incredible new Christmas movie Sleigh Ride in 4D. We don’t want to give too much away but the movie tells the heroic story of how Santa’s helpers saved Christmas, of course, this is a MOSI 4D movie, so expect many more surprises waiting for you beyond the big screen.

Sleigh Ride is screened daily throughout the month of December and tickets are priced at £3.50 for Adults and £2.50 concessions. All of our 4D shows last approximately 15 minutes. More information on Sleigh Ride and our entire range of 4D movies is available here.

To complete the seasonal nature of this post, we also have a Festive Grotto open at weekends throughout December, tickets for the Grotto are priced at £5, including craft activities and a special gift and are available from the Information Desk in the Great Western Warehouse.

With so much going on throughout December, why not combine a trip to MOSI with your Christmas Shopping trip to Manchester for a festive treat for the whole family?

More from Experiment tomorrow (Weather Permitting!)