Experiment Category: Permanent gallery Open 10.00–17.00 daily Stare into the mirror of infinity, create a tornado, and watch your own skeleton ride a bicycle. Play with 25 hands-on exhibits and see science in action.
Revolution Manchester Category: Permanent gallery Open 10.00–17.00 daily Thread your way through Manchester’s rich legacy of industrial innovations, scientific discoveries and ideas that changed the world.
Air and Space Hall Category: Permanent gallery Open 10.00–17.00 daily By road or by air, this city’s inventors and engineers made a big impact on the way we travel today. See the cars, bikes and aeroplanes that got industrial Manchester moving.
Textiles Gallery Category: Permanent gallery Open 10.00–17.00 daily Manchester is built on cotton. Our Textiles Gallery tells the story of the people, products and pioneers that made it and their continuing legacy in our city and our world today.
1830 Station Category: Permanent gallery Open 10.00–17.00 daily Find out how George Stephenson designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway against the odds, and see how it changed Manchester and the world.
Connecting Manchester Category: Permanent gallery Open 10.00–17.00 daily From the printing press to modern computing, discover how technological advancements have made it possible for us to communicate further and faster.
Meet Baby Category: Demonstration Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays Watch volunteers run our replica Baby and see how far computing has come since 1948.