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Collections & Galleries

Museums

TODO — what museums in Manchester are actually worth the time.

5 places
Science and Industry Museum, Manchestermust see
Castlefield

Science and Industry Museum

Built on the oldest surviving passenger railway station in the world, and free.

Manchester Museum, Oxford Roadmust see
Oxford Road

Manchester Museum

Reopened in 2023 with a new South Asia gallery, a rebuilt Egypt display and 174 objects sent home.

Manchester Art Galleryfree
Mosley Street

Manchester Art Gallery

One of the great Pre-Raphaelite collections, free, and the site of the strangest art row of the last decade.

The Whitworth gallery, Manchesterhidden gem
Oxford Road

The Whitworth

A gallery that opens into a park, with the best textile collection outside London and Turner's watercolours.

National Football Museum, Manchestermust see
Cathedral Gardens

National Football Museum

The national game's museum, in a glass wedge that was built for something else — and no longer free.