Museum · Castlefield
Science and Industry Museum
Liverpool Road, Manchester, England M3 4FP
Part of the Science Museum Group, the museum occupies the former Liverpool Road railway terminus in Castlefield, the start of the world's first inter-city passenger line. Its galleries cover Manchester's industrial and scientific history, from working engines and cotton machinery to hands-on experiments. General admission is free, with charged temporary exhibitions.
Permanent exhibitions
- Power Hall: The Andrew Law Gallery, working steam and gas engines
- Experiment, a hands-on science gallery
- Textiles Gallery on Manchester's cotton industry and its machines
- 1830 Liverpool Road station, the oldest surviving passenger railway station (under restoration)
