What's on

Get creative, play and be inspired by Manchester's textiles industry. Build a textiles tower, try your hand at weaving or spin your body like a bobbin.

Explore incredible objects, including some never seen by the public before, from Professor Stephen Hawking’s office.

Watch volunteers run our replica of the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, nicknamed 'Baby', and see how far computing has come since 1948.

Go back in time to the working mills of 150 years ago, experience the thundering sounds of the machinery and find out what life was like for thousands of mill workers.