{"id":49835,"date":"2022-10-31T18:50:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/oct\/31\/manchester-museum-to-reopen-with-ordinary-folk-co-curating-new-gallery"},"modified":"2022-10-31T18:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T09:50:58","slug":"manchester-museum-to-reopen-with-ordinary-folk-co-curating-new-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49835","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Museum to reopen with \u2018ordinary folk\u2019 co-curating new gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director says it\u2019s \u2018time to tell new stories\u2019 as people from south Asian diaspora contribute experiences<\/p>\n<p>A museum with a dizzying, encyclopaedic collection that spans Egyptian mummies, dinosaur skeletons and live Costa Rican frogs is to reopen next year after a \u00a315m revamp \u2013 with a promise to be more inclusive and imaginative.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester Museum has about 4.5m objects from around the world, a mix of exhibits from natural sciences and human cultures all under one roof.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/oct\/31\/manchester-museum-to-reopen-with-ordinary-folk-co-curating-new-gallery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director says it\u2019s \u2018time to tell new stories\u2019 as people from south Asian diaspora contribute experiencesA museum with a dizzying, encyclopaedic collection that spans Egyptian mummies, dinosaur skeletons and live Costa Rican frogs is to reopen next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,2239,2399,89,362,61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-greater-manchester","category-manchester","category-museums","category-race","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49835\/revisions\/49836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}