Museum of Science and Industry

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  • Address
    Liverpool Rd, Castlefield
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  • Phone
    832 1830
  • Website
  • Transport
    train: Deansgate
  • 10:00 - 17:00

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Lonely Planet review

The city's largest museum is spread about two huge warehouses and the world's oldest passenger railway terminal. If there's anything you want to know about the Industrial Revolution and Manchester's key role in it, you'll find it among this collection of steam engines and locomotives, factory machinery from the mills and exhibitions.

With over a dozen permanent exhibits, you could spend a whole day poking about the place, testing early electric-shock machines here and trying out a printing press there. A unifying theme - besides the fact that science and industry were pretty handy to the development of society - is that Manchester and Mancunians had a key role to play.