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MANCHESTER >> A print of an unpublished Norman Rockwell painting that hung in Manchester's former Quality Restaurant will soon find a new home with the Manchester Historical Society. Completed between ...
The museum poses the question as part of a process of addressing the colonial origins of some of its collections ...
Museum director Ward is the perfect guide, enthusing about scientific curiosities and the beauty of the natural world in her vivid red and black zebra print dress. “You can go around the world ...
The Manchester Museum in England was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire. Now it is embracing the city’s South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past.
Manchester Museum has won the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA), hailed by judges for "balancing globally-significant academic research with community engagement and social responsibility ...
But at the Manchester Jewish Museum, “there’s a lot of wood in there, a lot of soft furnishing. We want it to make people feel relaxed and comfortable in the space, ...
The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and admission is free. It is accessible via Metrolink tram; hop off at the St. Peter's Square stop, which is about a 20-minute walk.
A museum is opening an inflatable version of itself for a tour of schools to help cope with rising demand for access to its exhibits. Manchester Museum said it was "oversubscribed" after receiving ...
The movement is barely visible to the blind eye, but in a video created by museum employees, the ancient Egyptian statue rotates more than 180 degrees in a smooth, counter-clockwise semi-circle.
The museum's collections originated with Manchester enthusiasts for natural history, notably the early textile industrialist, John Leigh Philips (1761-1841). The Manchester Society for the Promotion ...