3 Best Places To Visit in Manchester

“Science and Industry Museum is devoted to inspiring visitors through ideas that change the world. Visitors can explore 250 years of innovations and ideas that started in Manchester and changed the world. They can also learn about the role of science and innovation in one of the world’s first modern train stations. The detailed exhibits on transportation, sewerage, sanitation, textiles, communications, and world-changing electronic inventions are highlights of the museum. You can book free tickets in advance. Science and Industry Museum works with trusts and foundations to demonstrate that science is for everyone and to ignite a passion for STEM in young people. You can also explore over 250,000 objects and archives from the Science Museum Group's collection online.”

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“National Football Museum is located in the Urbis building in Manchester city centre and preserves and displays important collections of football memorabilia. The museum originally opened in Preston in 2001 before moving to Manchester in July 2012. The National Football Museum is home to a collection of over 140,000 boots, balls, programmes, paintings, postcards, and ceramics. The museum welcomed over 100,000 visitors; over two years, more than 1 million had passed through their turnstiles. National Football Museum regularly welcomes approximately 500,000 visitors from the UK and overseas every year. Visitors can enjoy over 2,500 world-class objects displayed at any given time. They can also enjoy challenging interactives and a changing programme of temporary exhibitions, linking football to topics as diverse as fashion, history, art, and the First World War.”

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“Manchester Museum showcases archaeological, anthropological, and natural history works. The museum is owned by the University of Manchester. The museum is situated on Oxford Road at the centre of the university's neo-Gothic building complex and holds around 4.5 million objects from every continent. Manchester Museum is the largest university museum in the United Kingdom and operates both as a leading tourist attraction and as an academic research and teaching resource. The museum welcomes around 430,000 visitors each year. The Manchester Gallery presents the evolving relationship between the museum, the rest of the world, and Manchester. They currently have a temporary exhibition called Wild, which requires tickets. You can book them either on the website in advance or at the museum. Manchester Museum describes where collections come from, explains how colonization and empire are connected, and offers free entry.”

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