After years of neglect, initial restoration of the home of Elizabeth Gaskell is now complete. One of Manchester's most esteemed novelists, Gaskell wrote in...
84 Plymouth Grove
Housed in an 18th-century textile merchant's home and the recent recipient of a major makeover, this collection is the largest of its type in Britain (but...
Platt Hall
Proudly describing itself as 'the UK's only museum devoted solely to the hatting industry', Hatworks is a quaint experience, displaying machinery and...
Wellington Mill
Surely Manchester's most striking building of the past decade, the brain-boggling design of the museum is based on star architect Daniel Libeskind's concept...
The Quays
The home of Lancashire County Cricket Club for 150 years, the pavilion at Old Trafford is now looking a little tatty. On the cards is a controversial £70...
Talbot Road
A long way from the grimly functional mill buildings so often captured by its eponymous subject and raison d'être, the Lowry marked a tipping point for the...
Pier 8
Located behind the tourist information office, and extensively restored following a major fire in 1995, Staircase House is a very modern presentation of the...
30-31 Market PlaceIn contrast to the grand colonnaded entry, the gallery space that hosts a changing programme of art exhibitions consists of just a pair of drab, functional...
Wellington Road South