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 0160 or 0161 606 0213 to make an enquiry.

Press releases

Browse our press release archive below:

A dancer on stage with light being projected on them

New dance piece announced for Manchester Science Festival 2018

Tuesday 24 April 2018 We are delighted to announce Contagion, a brand-new dance piece by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, is one of the first events to be added to the Manchester Science Festival 2018 programme.

Image of the exterior of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

6% rise in visitors to Museum of Science and Industry

Tuesday 24 April 2018 Almost 40,000 more people visited the Museum of Science and Industry last year than the year before.

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

Tuesday 17 April 2018 This May, make sure you catch Tim Peake’s spacecraft before it blasts off on tour and get hands-on with MakeFest, the museum’s family-friendly celebration of making, tinkering and engineering. Plus, we have half term fun activities including pinhole cameras and printing workshops.

VIP visit for Trafford schoolboy who designed Tim Peake's mission patch

Tuesday 17 April 2018 A Trafford schoolboy who won a Blue Peter competition to design Tim Peake’s mission badge enjoyed a VIP visit to the Museum of Science and Industry where the astronaut’s Soyuz spacecraft and Sokol space suit are currently on display.

People in lab coats at a Pi event at MSI

Hear, hear! We're celebrating ears with a hands-on event at the Museum of Science and Industry

Thursday 05 April 2018 Get up close to what’s inside your ears, shout louder than anyone else, use a wobble board to find out how important your ears are for balance and invent gadgets to help people hear at the next Pi: Platform for Investigation – Powered by Siemens event at the Museum of Science and Industry.

Tekja artist duo stood in front a wall of computer code

Data sparks new Manchester Science Festival art commission

Tuesday 27 March 2018 Data visualisation experts Tekja have been announced as the winners of the commission to create a brand-new artwork for the Manchester Science Festival headline exhibition Electricity: The Spark of Life.

Get involved in Manchester Science Festival 2018

Tuesday 27 March 2018 Applications are now open for people and organisations interested in taking part in this year’s Manchester Science Festival.

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.