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Six of the best<br />
MUSEUMS<br />
OF THE<br />
SIX<br />
B E S T<br />
SCIENCE<br />
AND INDUSTRY<br />
MUSEUM<br />
The Science and Industry Museum is devoted to inspiring visitors<br />
through ideas that change the world, from the Industrial Revolution<br />
to today and beyond. Located on the site of the oldest surviving<br />
passenger railway station, in the heart of the world’s first industrial<br />
city – today it is alive with innovative discoveries in science and<br />
technology.<br />
Highlights include; the Textiles Gallery charting the history of the<br />
cotton industry that fuelled the Industrial Revolution complete with working mill machines; a working replica of the<br />
“Manchester Baby” – the world’s first stored programme computer; the Experiment Gallery where families can get handson<br />
with experiments and puzzles; temporary exhibitions featuring everything from the early years of Factory Records to<br />
the major new Cancer Revolution exhibition due to open in October; as well as events throughout the year celebrating<br />
the science around us every day.<br />
The museum is currently undergoing a multi-million-pound restoration programme. As well as the now-complete Special<br />
Exhibitions Gallery, the much-loved Power Hall is being renovated, and improvement works are currently being made to<br />
the historic 1830s Station and Warehouse, the world’s first passenger railway station and the oldest existing railway goods<br />
warehouse respectively.<br />
FACTS<br />
Address: Liverpool Road, Manchester,<br />
M3 4FP<br />
Opening times: 10.00 - 17.00, Monday –<br />
Sunday (school holidays), 10.00 – 17.00,<br />
Wednesday to Sunday (term time)<br />
(Please check website for details)<br />
www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk
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