In this guest post, volunteer Joe Roberts takes us through the production process of one of the headline activities at Manchester Science Festival, Tape.

Manchester Science Festival teamed up with the BBC to stream three live experiments from the museum during Opera Passion Day, the BBC’s biggest-ever celebration of opera.

The secret to happiness is all in your head. Find out how to boost your happy chemicals with the theory and practise at Morning Gloryville…

Textile production and computing—two of Manchester’s most important historic industries—are brought together in the Jacquard loom, on display in our Textiles Gallery.

Director of the North West Film Archive, Marion Hewitt, gets excited about discovery and decay.

Aaaah robots on camera, dontcha just love ‘em? We’ve been putting robots on screen for almost as long as we’ve been making films.

This year, as part of Manchester Science Festival, we are working with Cornbrook Creative as they present A Grand Exposition: a three-day celebration of art, science, and the creativity that connects them both.

Why do we go to Antarctica to search for space rocks?

Robots and artificially intelligent beings in films are often used as a way to explore what makes us uniquely human.

Louise Brown was conceived 40 years ago this month, launching a revolution in reproductive medicine that has seen millions of test tube babies born worldwide.

The more human a robot appears, the more unsettling we find it. How should we treat robots once they become indistinguishable, in both looks and actions, from real humans?

Did you know there’s a Hollywood star who also has a secret life as a scientist?