Astley Green Colliery Museum

The museum occupies some fifteen acres of the Astley Green Colliery site. To the south lies the Bridgewater Canal and Astley Moss, an important mossland site. The low-lying landscape ensures that the museum's 98ft high lattice steel headgear can be s...

BBC Manchester Tour

BBC Manchester is offering you the chance to take a tour and have a peek behind the scenes of programmes such as BBC North West Tonight. You are likely to have a go at presenting the weather or have fun making your own radio drama complete with sound...

Chetham's Library

Chetham's Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.
It is an independent charity and remains open to readers and visitors free of charge.
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Daisy Nook Country Park

Daisy Nook is the name of an area of the Medlock Valley between Oldham, Failsworth and Ashton under Lyne.
The River Medlock runs through a steep-sided, wooded valley between Oldham and Ashton under Lyne, preventing the urban sprawl of the two tow...

Fletcher Moss Botanical Gardens

Celebrated for their botanical beauty, the gardens contain an interesting selection of trees and shrubs, including Chusan palms, tulip tree, mulberry, dawn redwood, swamp cypress, Chinese dogwood, Adam's Laburnum, common walnut, Oxydendrum arboreum, ...

Gallery of Costume

The Gallery of Costume houses one of the finest collections of clothing and fashion accessories in the country. Two floors of themed displays give a fascinating insight into fashion over the centuries. The exhibition and displays change regularly, so...

Greater Manchester Police Museum

Imagine stepping back in time to a Victorian Manchester, not the city of commerce and corporate splendour but a hidden city of gas lamps and narrow alleys, of slums and unruly alehouses. Now imagine a busy police station in the heart of that city fro...

Heaton Hall, Park and Orangery

Heaton Park is a huge family park open 365 days and is free to enter, although a small car parking charge is made at weekends. There are two cafes, a farm centre, great children's play areas, tram museum and boating lake. Heaton Park hosts many eve...

Imperial War Museum North

The multi-award winning Imperial War Museum North is a great free day out for all the family. Designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind to represent a globe shattered by conflict. it reveals how war shapes lives through powerful exhibitio...

Manchester Airport Aviation Viewing Park

Please note: the Concorde hangar has a glass frontage which allows a 'nose-on' view of the aircraft. There may occasionally be a restricted view when an event is in progress.
Concorde G-BOAC:
The Park's star attraction is G-BOAC, otherwise know...

Manchester Art Gallery

Here you'll find everything from fine art to a Levi jeans chair. Manchester Art Gallery's world class collection spans six centuries and contains over 25,000 items.
Winner of Large Visitor Attraction of the Year 2008 in the Manchester Tourism Awar...

Manchester Cathedral

Because of the extensive refurbishment carried out both inside and outside the church during the nineteenth century, many people can be forgiven for thinking that, from appearances at least, Manchester Cathedral is a relatively modern church.
In ...

Manchester Jewish Museum

Sandwiched between Manchester Fort and the vibrant city centre, Manchester Jewish Museum is a hidden treasure.
The Museum is located in a former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road. It is the oldest surviving synagogue building ...

Manchester Sightseeing - See the best of Manchester by bus

The home of great football, bold new architectural projects and the pivotal City of Britain's Industrial Revolution, Manchester still retains a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Travel to the Trafford Centre, paradise for shop-o-holics! See the worl...

Manchester United Museum and Stadium Tour

The story of Manchester United is unlike any other club in the world. Beginning more than a century ago, it combines eras of total English and European domination with some of the greatest adversity faced by any football club.
Only at the Manchest...

Mersey Valley Visitor Centre

The Information Wardens at the Visitor Centre can provide you with maps and details on events within the Valley, along with Natural History information. The Centre is home to colourful, seasonally changing displays, so there is always something new t...

Museum of Transport

If you fancy a really interesting, unusual and enjoyable day out, why not pay a visit to Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport? It is just like taking a trip back in time as you wander through one of Britain's biggest collection of restored trams,...

People's History Museum

Ideas worth fighting for... The People's History Museum tells the dramatic story of the British working class's struggle for democracy and social justice - told at the only national museum in Manchester, the radical city where it belongs. The museum ...

The Manchester Museum

The origins of The Manchester Museum lie in the collection of the Manchester manufacturer and collector John Leigh Philips (1761-1814). After his death, a small group of wealthy men banded together to buy his 'cabinet', and in 1821 they set up the Ma...

The Pankhurst Centre

Womens' Resource Centre providing meeting space, services, and courses for women. Based in Emmeline Pankhurst's former home.
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The Whitworth Art Gallery

The Whitworth is home to some of the UK's finest collections of art and design including modern and historic fine art, prints, textiles and a rare collection of wallpapers. The gallery is also bursting at the seams! So we are planning to expand.
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Urbis

Urbis is an exhibition centre of city life. We have 5 floors of changing exhibitions, so there is always something new to see whenever you visit.
Our exhibitions offer unique insights into the culture of the modern city, about Manchester, art and...

Victoria Baths

The Victoria Baths, near Longsight in Manchester, were designed as a prestigious baths complex by Manchester's first City Architect, Henry Price, and opened by Manchester Corporation in 1906. In their design and construction no expense was spared. Th...