MANCHESTER MUSEUM

Ranked as one of the best tourist places to visit in Manchester, the Manchester Museum is also among the most popular university museums in the city. The origins of the museum lie in the vast collection of John Leigh Philips, who was a major manufacturer and collector in Manchester

The origins of the museum lie in the vast collection of John Leigh Philips, who was a major manufacturer and collector in Manchester. It is after his death that the Manchester Natural History Society was set up, in the year 1821, after which the collections here continued to grow as more artefacts and objects were donated from different parts of the world. It was in 1868 that the museum was transferred to the University of Manchester, and came to be known as the Manchester Museum.

Said to be the largest university museum in the entire United Kingdom, the Manchester Museum is particularly famous for its extensive displays related to archaeology, natural history as well as anthropology. The museum was established in the year 1888 and is home to a collection of more than 4.5 million artefacts from many different parts of the world. It has also gained fame for its huge collection of Chinese cultural items and artefacts, in addition to ethnographic and Egyptology collections.

Location: University of, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom

Timings: 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m. 

Entry Fee: £3.95 (adults), £2.95 (children)

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Highlights

• You can see a variety of rare and exotic plants as well as animal fossils here, including that of dinosaurs, and animals that existed many millions of years ago.
• Sometime in the 1900s, the museum divided its collections into different categories, including archery, archaeology, botany, Egyptology, entomology, ethnography, mineralogy, paleontology, numismatics, and zoology, while also keeping many live specimens for viewing in its aquarium and vivarium.
• Over the years, the museum has also staged numerous temporary exhibitions in the special gallery located near its entrance, with displays like the Moon Rock, the Lindow Man and others.