Press office

The Science and Industry Museum’s press office helps journalists and broadcasters access our collection, information on our extensive programme of events and exhibitions, and the insight offered by our experts.

Browse our press release archive below, or discover more about the Science and Industry Museum.

Contact the press team

The museum receives many requests from broadcasters and TV production companies wanting to film the museum, or objects within it, every week. We look at each of these requests on a case-by-case basis.

All filming requests need to give clear deadlines, and details on how they will be mentioning the museum in the footage or programme.

Please email press@scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk or call 0161 606 0176 or 0161 606 0213 to make an enquiry.

Press releases

Browse our press release archive below:

Tim Peake's Sokol spacesuit

Tim Peake's spacesuit goes on display for the first time as competition winner announced

Friday 09 March 2018 Science Museum Group Director Ian Blatchford today announced Peterborough Cathedral as the winner of a national competition to host British astronaut Tim Peake's spacecraft. The announcement came at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, where the Sokol space suit worn by Peake during his Principia mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is to be unveiled to the public for the first time.

Two boys wearing Victorian hats and fake moustaches

Steam, Sweat and Spinners at the Museum of Science and Industry

Friday 09 February 2018 This February half term, visitors can travel back to the Victorian era to find out how Steam, Sweat and Spinners created our modern world, and how Manchester was at the start of it all.

Image shows the Soyuz TMA-19M descent module on a black background

Astronaut Tim Peake’s spacecraft lands in Manchester

Monday 05 February 2018 The spacecraft that brought European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake safely back to earth following his time on the International Space Station is to go on public display in Manchester on Saturday March 10.

Space Descent VR

What’s on this February at the Museum of Science and Industry

Monday 22 January 2018 It's the end of the world this month and only you can save mankind—that’s what the scientists from Project Doomsday will have you believe anyway.

A young boy working on a laptop

Find out how engineers build the world at our free Pi: Platform for Investigation

Monday 22 January 2018 Join some amazing engineers at the Museum of Science and Industry for Pi: Platform for Investigation – Building the World to find out how they have constructed the places we live, play and travel.

A black and whit picture of a model wearing electrical sensors on its head

An electric new £20,000 art commission launched in Manchester

Thursday 18 January 2018 A new £20,000 art commission to explore the vital, yet invisible, force of electricity is up for grabs.

Comedy duo Robin and Partridge

Can you be the hero and save the world in Project Doomsday?

Monday 08 January 2018 Forget red roses and giant fluffy toys this February, because the cybersecurity clock is ticking with Project Doomsday – The Intelligent Machine Chapter.

Girl with light shining on her face

What’s on this January at the Museum of Science and Industry

Wednesday 03 January 2018 This month we have two special events to accompany our blockbuster Robots exhibition, plus a host of exciting hands-on activities with the theme of 'light', and not one but two special events for under 4s.

Tim Peake stood next to the Soyuz capsule

What’s on at the Museum of Science and Industry in 2018

Thursday 30 November 2017 From robots and space ships to computing and electricity, there's a host of events and exhibitions to spark your imagination at the Museum of Science and Industry in 2018.

Black and white picture of man stood in a door way in the 1830 Warehouse at MSI

Stunning photography charts the history of historic railway buildings

Tuesday 14 November 2017 New exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry shows how unique buildings were saved from collapse.

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