Museums
“We are daring to change.” Kate Harland, Lion Salt Works Museum, Cheshire
In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Bill Murray is forced to live the same day again and again.
Read the full story..“Science has never been more relevant.” Sally MacDonald, director of the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester
It’s almost exactly six years since I became director of the Science and Industry Museum.
Read the full story..The national museum of democracy on its tenth anniversary: People’s History Museum
The UK’s national museum of democracy is 10 years old this week.
Read the full story..Use Hearing Protection: celebrating the early years of Factory Records
Jan Hicks has a particular, distinctive memory of growing up in the early 80s.
Read the full story..Preserving our history: Lancashire Museum of Mining, Astley Green
As you approach the Lancashire Museum of Mining (formerly the Astley Green Colliery), you can’t miss the Grade II listed pit headgear which, like a huge Meccano construction, dominates the skyline.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Second Nature – what is nature anyway? The Portico Library, Manchester
Did you know there’s a secret garden tucked away in an historic Manchester Library within walking distance from Piccadilly Gardens?
Read the full story..Yemen: Inside a Crisis, Imperial War Museum North
Described by the UN as the “world’s worst” humanitarian crisis, the on-going conflict in Yemen has left an estimated 80 per cent of the country’s men, women and children in desperate need of assistance.
Read the full story..Beyond the history: Peterloo exhibitions in Manchester
This summer Manchester will mark the anniversary of a public pro-democracy demonstration on August 16, 1819, and its now infamous and bloody response from the authorities.
Read the full story..Suffragette City: People’s History Museum, Manchester
A new exhibit at the People’s History Museum in Manchester offers a stark reminder of what women went through to secure the vote.
Read the full story..Review: Wave, Imperial War Museum North, Trafford
Ah ceramic poppies, you never fail to disappoint.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
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- “We’re a resource for the whole of the North of England.” Kenn Taylor, Lead Cultural Producer North at The British Library North
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