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Science and Industry Museum
Science museum
Museum exploring the role of science & innovation in one of the world's first modern train stations.
4.40 (17.1K reviews)
(~2.58 km from centre)
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Manchester Art Gallery
Art gallery
Artworks spanning 6 centuries plus changing historic and contemporary exhibitions and family events.
4.60 (8.9K reviews)
(~3.32 km from centre)
3
Manchester Museum
Archaeological museum
Free, wide-ranging global collections including mummies and dinosaurs, plus a busy events programme.
4.60 (7K reviews)
(~4.34 km from centre)
4
IWM North
War museum
Permanent & temporary exhibitions charting the effects of war, plus family events & activities.
4.50 (6.7K reviews)
(~2.1 km from centre)
5
National Football Museum
National museum
More than 140,000 football-related items, plus a kids' discovery zone & skills-testing simulators.
4.30 (6.2K reviews)
(~3.12 km from centre)
7
People's History Museum
Museum
Former Edwardian pumping station housing displays on local & national working-class life.
4.50 (2.9K reviews)
(~2.5 km from centre)
9
Salford Museum & Art Gallery
Art gallery
Permanent & temporary exhibitions include Victorian art, a street mock-up & a local history archive.
4.50 (1K reviews)
(~1.19 km from centre)
11
Ordsall Hall
Museum
Tudor manor house with period rooms & exhibits, plus landscaped gardens, an orchard & a cafe.
4.70 (971 reviews)
(~2.18 km from centre)
13
Elizabeth Gaskell's House
Museum
Restored, former home of the famous author featuring period rooms, a garden, tea room & bookshop.
4.70 (391 reviews)
(~5.24 km from centre)
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Manchester Jewish Museum
Museum
UK's only Jewish museum outside London, with Moorish-style architecture and stained-glass windows.
4.60 (390 reviews)
(~3.5 km from centre)
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Chetham's Library
Library
Public library since 1653 housing thousands of books & manuscripts in a dark, medieval atmosphere.
4.50 (143 reviews)
(~3.05 km from centre)
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Clayton Hall
Museum
👍👍 Lovely little house to explore with lots of things you can actually pick up and look through. The cafe is nice and very affordable. Good cake!
4.80 (115 reviews)
(~7.23 km from centre)
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Upper Campfield Market Hall
Historical landmark
👍👍 Competition Review for MCR, sponsored by Google: B.Eat Street's Friday Food Fight held at the Campfield Market Hall venue.
B.Eat Street's Friday Food Fight is a 12-week free event, involving a variety of MCR's enterprising eateries laying on sapid street food for the city's swanky and stylish socia...
4.10 (72 reviews)
(~2.82 km from centre)
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Castlefield Gallery
Art gallery
Sizable and active community arts space with regularly-changing contemporary art exhibitions.
4.40 (49 reviews)
(~2.94 km from centre)