Manchester Museum
Manchester Museum is aiming to be the most inclusive, imaginative and caring museum you’ll ever visit. Winner of the coveted European Museum of the Year Award 2025, it's a space for connection, community and conversation, using rich collections to tell fascinating stories and create a place where everyone feels they belong.
Wander through its beautiful 130-year-old building and lose yourself in tales of what it means to be human, including the moving, personal narratives of the South Asia Gallery, co-curated with 30 inspiring community members.
Rethink your relationship with the natural world, while enjoying rich natural science collections that underpin vital conservation work. Unusually, Manchester Museum's collections even include live amphibians and lizards - it is the only place in the world outside Panama where you’ll see the extraordinarily beautiful and critically endangered harlequin toad.
Find a sense of joy and connection through events that bring communities together to celebrate, share and learn, from Vaisakhi to Lunar New Year and Africa Day.
Manchester Museum is reimagining what it means to be a museum at the heart of its community, while putting community at the heart of what it does. In February 2023, the Museum completed a major, values-led redevelopment that created new gallery spaces and visitor facilities with collaboration and co-creation at their heart. You’ll find a beautiful picnic area, a spacious prayer room for all, a quiet room and Changing Places toilet.
Who to contact
- Telephone
- 0161 275 2648 0161 275 2648 Fax: 0161 275 2676 Fax: 0161 275 2676
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museum@manchester.ac.uk
- Website
- Manchester Museum
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Where to go
- Address
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The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
City Centre
Manchester
Lancashire - Postcode
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M13 9PLView M13 9PL on a map
Costs
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Table of Costs Description Cost type Unit price Cost unit Free of Charge 0
Availability
- Referral not required
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We aim to meet everyone's access requirements. Please let us know any requirements a week in advance of any event you would like to attend. Phone 0161 275 2648 or email museum@manchester.ac.uk
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