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Along with being the location for the After The Bees exhibition<\/a>, Manchester Museum<\/a> is home to two hives, both housed on the roof of the Rutherford Building next door. The project started with one back in 2013, with Sam Beath, Sally Thellwell, Stephen Devine, Bob O\u2019Connor, who look after the bees, undergoing 12 months of training beforehand. Unfortunately, the museum doesn\u2019t collect enough honey to sell, so it is raffled off each year, with the proceeds given to charity or put back into buying beekeeping equipment.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/manchesterbe.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hive-inspection.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” use_overlay=”off” max_width=”400px” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” gutter_width=”3″ padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]<\/p>\n These aren\u2019t the first beehives to be housed by the Museum. During the 1980\u2019s, an Observatory Hive was located on the Oxford Road facing balcony on the third floor of the building, where The Study<\/a> is now sited.<\/p>\n The museum features the bees and the hives as part of their Big Saturdays events, using them to dispel myths around bees and to champion their importance as pollinators. The hives also tie into the museum\u2019s Egyptian exhibit, which a contains a 3 thousand year old Terracotta Drain<\/a> that formed part of a beehive, a system still in use to this day in Egypt.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/manchesterbe.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_5122.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” use_overlay=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]<\/p>\n In addition, the city\u2019s first Bee Summit took place at the Museum in September 2015, organised by Manchester Friends of the Earth<\/a> and Manchester: A Certain Future<\/a>. The event played host to councils, universities, museums, housing associations, football clubs, allotment and park groups, beekeepers and scientists.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Next\/Previous Post Navigation & Comments” fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” collapsed=”on” locked=”on”][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” global_module=”404″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_post_nav global_parent=”404″ in_same_term=”off” hide_prev=”off” hide_next=”off” prev_text=”previous post” next_text=”next post” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row 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