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Power Hall: The Law Family Gallery is due to reopen in 2025. Associate Curator for the Power Hall, Sibia Akhtar, takes us behind the scenes of some new displays focused on local people working with engines.

By Bethany Turner-Pemberton

Extreme textiles

This year, Manchester Science Festival is exploring the theme of extremes. Amongst the range of events and experiences on offer, visitors will be able to see one of the museum’s newest acquisitions, a jacket enhanced with Manchester wonder material graphene, the world’s strongest, thinnest, lightest and most conductive material.

Manchester’s Gay Village has been a haven for many in the LGBTQ+ Community for decades and welcomes thousands of people from across Manchester and beyond to celebrate Pride every year. But before becoming Europe’s largest Gay Village, this area was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution in Manchester.