As part of the 2024 Manchester Science Festival, we’re marking the 20th anniversary of the isolation of graphene—the first single-layer material ever discovered—which happened right here in the city.
Adults can look forward to a specially curated weekend of events, after-hours celebrations at the museum, and immersive artwork at Manchester Science Festival 2024, which runs from 18–27 October.
Ahead of Manchester Science Festival 2024, which gets underway on 18 October, we’re taking a look at some of the highlights for families this year—from extreme science explorations to incredible installations—and even a giant spider.
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.
Project Curator Zara Shijan shares more about Cotton Connections, a two-year project exploring the museum’s textiles industry collection in partnership with local Black and South Asian communities.
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.
This year, Manchester Science Festival is exploring the theme of extremes. Whether developing faster, smaller, or stronger technology, extremes have often motivated scientists and engineers.
We love a cup of tea here at the Science and Industry Museum, so we’re really excited at the latest acquisition to our collection: a pyramid teabag making machine from the PG Tips factory in Trafford Park, complete with one of the last boxes of PG Tips pyramid teabags ever made.
By Alex Urmston
Discover the women in our galleries whose skills, ideas and innovations change the world
This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the women whose skills, ideas and innovations change the world.
The Science and Industry Museum has welcomed the George Cross medal awarded to NHS England in 2021. To mark the occasion, Head Curator Lauren Ryall-Waite looks at Manchester’s historical role in the development of the UK’s public health services, including the NHS itself.
Science Director, Roger Highfield, profiles the life and work of Adrian Owen, the extraordinary neuroscientist who devised our new online study, open to all, of the elusive relationship between body and mind.
Science Director Roger Highfield invites you to take part in a major new study exploring the relationship between brain and body, to help push back the boundaries of neuroscience and discover more about how your own brain works.