Ordsall Hall Museum

Ordsall Hall has had a long and interesting history with many different uses since it was first mentioned in records in 1177! Today, it is a welcoming and friendly historic house telling the story of the Hall and some of the people who made it their home.

There is so much to do and discover! Dress up as a Tudor, try on some chain mail, discover some of the foods that would have been cooked at the Hall in the 1500s, pretend you are having a feast around the table in our Great Hall, find out about the Pre-Raphaelite artist who lived here, listen to the story of the 450 year old Radclyffe bed, chat to our friendly staff and volunteers, visit our allotment and herb garden, explore the sculptures in the gardens and much, much more.

Old Bell Museum

The Old Bell, a 16th century inn, has been converted into a local history museum by Montgomery Civic Society.   Run by volunteers, it is the winner of a Prince of Wales Award.   Eleven rooms house displays illustrating the long social and civic history of the ancient County Town of Montgomeryshire.   There are permanent exhibitions relating to the medieval and Norman castles and their archaeological excavations with excellent scale models of both.  Two rooms are devoted to the Workhouse and the Cambrian Railways.  A small room in the museum has been restored to demonstrate the various methods of construction in this half timbered building.

Situated in Arthur Street near to the Town Hall, the Old Bell is an independent museum and was officially awarded “Accreditation” status by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in February 2009, reaccredited in 2013 and again recently in 2016.

Salford Museum and Art Gallery

Salford Museum and Art Gallery was the UK’s ‘first free public library’, which opened in January 1850, followed in November by a museum and art gallery. The building was a mansion house known as Lark Hill, which had been built in the 1790s and has given its name to our famous Lark Hill Place; a Victorian street within the museum.

Today, Salford Museum and Art Gallery presents an exciting programme of permanent displays and changing contemporary exhibitions together with a range of events and activities guaranteed to inspire which completes a must visit experience for individuals, families, schools and organisations to come and enjoy. When you have visited the galleries why not pop into our cafe or purchase a souvenir in the museum shop.

Greenfield Valley Museum

Welcome to North Wales best representation of the Industrial Revolution. We have brought the past back to the future and present the old world for you to experience. We are the most comprehensive museum devoted to the Industrial Revolution in North Wales. We tell stories of factory work men, women and children who gave their lives to make way for our modern way of life.

The Museum depicts powerful history through the ages about the local farming and milling communities dating as far back as Victorian and Tudor times. We focus on cotton, copper and brass trading industries and what it was like to work in these poor conditions.
The Park is not just a museum but an events stage too as weekly we have Children’s activities to attend, mainly through the school holidays and always at weekends. You can find out below ‘what’s on’ by scrolling down the page.
The park is a great place for children to spend the whole day. They are guaranteed to have a blast, with so many things to do and see such as the Toddler Tractor Heaven, the Indoor Soft Play Area, our Mega Tower Maze, the big Adventure Tree House, swings, the Water Power and not forgetting our newest attraction the Tunnel Maze, we do hope you can join us soon.

Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery

The Museum stands in a beautiful and historic location beside the Huddersfield Canal in the village of Uppermill, nestled in the hills in the middle of the area known as Saddleworth, an old Yorkshire Parish with its own identity. Uppermill is a busy, thriving village with lovely canal towpath walks, many small independent shops and plenty of places to eat & drink.

The museum galleries tell the story of the people who have created Saddleworth’s landscape and character. This is done in a thoroughly modern way within the carefully restored fabric of a building that still retains the character you would expect from a building dated 1862. A small charge is made for admission to the museum galleries although “Friends of the Museum”, enjoy free admission

Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre

Welcoming, warm and friendly Bury Art Museum is the perfect place to enjoy art and find out more about the rich history of Bury and the surrounding area. Showcasing the best of international and local art and with the addition of Bury Art Shop, Bury Art Museum can truly offer something for all interests.The collections and exhibitions are supported by a range of activities and events which allow visitors to explore and enjoy the Gallery and Museum further. All housed in a distinctive Edwardian building that is a work of art in itself.

Buckingham Old Gaol Museum

Welcome to over 270 years of dark, damp, desperate prison life.

Explore the cells that housed murderers, counterfeiters, poachers and thieves.  Find out who made daring escapes, and who didn’t survive to tell the tale.

Walk through thousands of years of Buckingham history, from the prehistoric to the Second World War.

See the impact of the Ice Age in creating a striking local geology and reflect on the lives of the brave servicemen from the town and surrounding villages who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Great War.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry. Both Barry’s buildings are listed. The building that links them was designed by Hopkins Architects following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions. It opened in 2002 following a major renovation and expansion project undertaken by the art gallery.

Manchester Art Gallery is free to enter and open seven days a week. It houses many works of local and international significance and has a collection of more than 25,000 objects. More than half a million people visited the museum in the period of a year, according to figures released in April 2014.

Platt Hall, The Gallery of Costume

Manchester City Galleries has one of the largest British collections of fashion and clothing, housed in a separate building, Platt Hall, 2 miles south of the city centre. The Gallery of Costume was founded in 1947 when Manchester acquired the large private collection of costume which Drs Willet and Phillis Cunnington had amassed during the 1930s, and which concentrated on middling and ordinary dress. The 19th century holding, including a large archive and library of fashion related material, was particularly significant, forming the nucleus of the collections even today.

Beginning with the stewardship of Anne Buck in 1947, a succession of curators has ensured that the strengths of the collections have been built upon in such areas as sportswear and occupational dress, whilst the breadth has been considerably expanded so that we have a wealth of representative material from 1600 onwards, including the Filmer collection of early 17th century dress. We also have a fine selection of 18th century women’s clothing with over 100 dresses, and an excellent collection of children’s costume. Menswear too has been a priority, as has Manchester-labelled clothing.

More recently we have concentrated on increasing the Gallery’s holding of top-end couture to complement the more mainstream or high-street pieces, ranging from Schiaparelli and Chanel to McQueen and Westwood. A Collecting Cultures grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund is currently assisting with the purchase of some seminal couture pieces.

Manchester Museum

Manchester Museum is the UK’s leading university museum and a proud part of the University of Manchester.

We are open seven days a week, and free to all.

Explore our collection on curator blogs, while the international research that takes place here and within the university is often open to our visitors.