At the Museum of Science and Industry, Heritage Lottery Funding has helped acquire two fascinating objects, Richard Arkwright’s water frame and the only surviving piece of equipment from the Manchester hydraulic power system.
There aren’t many museums where you can find an exhibition in a train station waiting room, but the Museum of Science and Industry is a unique heritage site.
We get a lot of filming requests here at the museum, and there’s none we were happier to say yes to than when the BBC approached us to be the North West venue for this year’s Children in Need.
Curators are creative folk—and spending all day with the amazing objects in our collections can lead to some interesting trains of thought.
Our official Manchester Science Festival 2017 poem pays tribute to the city’s place as the home of invention, and references some of the most amazing events to experience at this year’s festival.
From robot poop to AI in hospitals, Tomorrow’s World Live at Manchester Science Festival covered all the big questions. Here’s the most important stuff we learned.
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.
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.
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.
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.