What's on

Brighten up your winter holidays at the Science and Industry Museum. Get hands on with illuminating experiments and enjoy free activities for all ages. Make light perform tricks, create colour and play with shadows in the Light Lab.

Experitots is a regular event specially designed for children aged 0–4. During these playful sessions, toddlers and their adults are encouraged to play, explore and experiment together.

What will you build, sense and discover? Play and explore science in action in Experiment, our free interactive gallery designed for the whole family to enjoy together.

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.

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

Uncover stories of our historic site while exploring our new garden, featuring plants, trees and flowers that have been carefully selected to represent the goods that would have once been transported here on the railway.

Find out more about Manchester's Rolls-Royce as part of our Revolution Manchester gallery.

Especially for Baby Builders and Mini Engineers, our Construction Packs contain everything you need to ‘work’ around the museum.

Calling all Mini Movers! Join us as we roll, clank, whirr and clack our way round the Textiles Gallery.