Best places: Museums in Stockport, United Kingdom

Neo-gothic library (part of University of Manchester) with rare books & manuscripts, a cafe & shop.

Artworks spanning 6 centuries plus changing historic and contemporary exhibitions and family events.

Free, wide-ranging global collections including mummies and dinosaurs, plus a busy events programme.

The city's law enforcement history traced through historic photos, old weapons & other artefacts.

Large public space around a 14th-century manor house, with bowling green, cafe and picnic areas.

Restored, former home of the famous author featuring period rooms, a garden, tea room & bookshop.

👍👍 Great place to learn about the textile industry during the industrial revolution. The mill has exhibits about the people who worked there and has regular demonstrations of the machines. The gardens are also very nice to walk through. There are many buildings to go through and lots to see. Some build...

Independent and guided tours of purpose-built underground tunnel network used as wartime shelters.

Exhibitions in restored building, including a recreated 1920s street and local industrial heritage.

Museum exploring the role of science & innovation in one of the world's first modern train stations.

👍👍 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!

Audio tours explaining the history of the town's oldest house with a rare Jacobean staircase.

Interactive exhibits recreate Victorian hat factory and display 400 hats from around the globe.

👍 This was a great find as we were on a leisure walk through Stockport. Impressive building with great presentation from the street. It combines both an art gallery exhibition and war memorial. Staff were very knowledgeable and helpful with recommendations.

👍👍 Very surprised at this place. I had lived in Stockport for 4 years and had no idea this really well presented free museum was hiding in the Center of Stockport. Lots of toys and games for my 2 year old and lots of interesting artifices to learn about even things dating back thousands of years from t...

Sizable and active community arts space with regularly-changing contemporary art exhibitions.

👍👍 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...