What's on

Sebastião Salgado, winner of the 2021 Praemium Imperiale award for painting, presents Amazônia, a breath-taking photography exhibition that celebrates the indigenous peoples and varied landscapes of the Brazilian rainforest.

Prepare to get hands-on, with your ears and hearts open, with our new major exhibition exploring the science of music's mysterious hold over us and how it drives us to create, perform, feel and share.

Celebrate 100 years of the BBC in Manchester with a new display that showcases Manchester as a centre of innovation in broadcasting, from 1922 to the present, and looking to the future.

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

Explore the whimsical world of marvellous machinery with our new temporary display, A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley.

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.

Explore this newly installed playful train track graphic in our Lower Yard.

Follow your curiosity and learn more about the big ideas and innovations that are changing 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.