The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...

The Manchester Museum is running a public consultation about the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt ...

The beautifully-illustrated books provide an important historical record to help us understand how and why bird populations have changed over time. This acquisition, a collaboration between two venues ...

Manchester Museum is ranked #12 out of 18 things to do in Manchester. See pictures and our review of Manchester Museum. ... In total, the museum's collection comprises more than four million items.

A collection of illustrated bird books worth £127,000 will now remain in the UK after the government intervened to stop the ...

Now one museum in the north of England has been named the best museum in Europe at the prestigious European Museum of the Year Awards 2025. The Manchester Museum is officially the European Museum of ...

The museum's collections originated with Manchester enthusiasts for natural history, notably the early textile industrialist, John Leigh Philips (1761-1841). The Manchester Society for the Promotion ...

Judges praised how the museum, on Oxford Road, "reimagined its mission, acknowledging and addressing its complex history by redefining the role of its collections and public programmes".

The Manchester Museum in England was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire. Now it is embracing the city’s South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past.

Established in 1823, the Manchester Art Gallery boasts a collection of more than 25,000 items that has been collected over a period of 200 years. Of particular note is its pre-Raphaelite collection.

While Manchester Museum has returned artefacts to other communities before, its head of exhibitions and collections, Georgina Young, saw last week’s return as unique.

Manchester Museum will hand the items, including spears and shell dolls, over to the Anindilyakwa community in a special ceremony. Many of the items have been in the museum's collection since the ...