As a major new free exhibition is announced that will reveal the links between Manchester, cotton and the transatlantic slave trade, Sally MacDonald (Science and Industry Museum Director) and Keisha Thompson (Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement Programme Manager) discuss their hopes for the project.
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.
Over 140 years after the gantry outside of Power Hall was first built, visitors will be able to see it restored to its former glory in the lead up to the grand reopening of Power Hall in Summer 2025.
Sibia Akhtar, Associate Curator for the Power Hall, tells us about a workshop she hosted in August 2023 with an inspiring Greater Manchester women’s group.
Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to Dr Conor Wild about a high-profile festival online brain game experiment, which showed that eSports are better for cognition than sports.
Roger Highfield, Science Director, discusses Manchester Science Festival’s latest installation with the neuroscientist and artist who created the colourful immersive experience.
The professor behind a pioneering online ‘brain and body’ study unveils its findings this week at the Manchester Science Festival. Science Director, and study coauthor, Roger Highfield, reports.
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.