To find out more about our guest authors, you can find their biographies at the end of each post.
We’ve recently added exciting new displays to our Revolution Manchester gallery. This includes in-depth content about the world’s first commercially made computer, the Ferranti Mark 1, which celebrated its 75th anniversary in February 2026.
Artemis II’s journey around the Moon has captured the world’s attention. From amazing new images of Earth, to the astronauts becoming the first humans to see the far side of the Moon in over fifty years, it’s not hard to see why so many of us are going space mad!
As our neighbours, Factory International, explore the world of fashion runways in Vogue: Inventing the Runway, we take a look at how cotton and the textiles industry transformed Manchester. Join us for a strut through the museum’s Textiles Gallery for some surprising stories.
As work progresses to shape a major exhibition that will reveal the links between Manchester, cotton and transatlantic slavery, Reece Williams, Curator – Legacies of Enslavement, discusses his hopes for the project and how lived experiences, voices and perspectives of African descendent and diaspora communities will be central.
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 Andrew Law 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.
Sibia Akhtar, Associate Curator for Power Hall: The Andrew Law Gallery, tells us about a workshop she hosted in August 2023 with an inspiring Greater Manchester women’s group.
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.