Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
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The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, located in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology, and industry and particularly the city's considerable contributions to these. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH - The European Route of Industrial Heritage.
The museum used to be located on Grosvenor St to the south of the city centre, and had close ties with UMIST, having mostly grown out of the Department of History of Science & Technology. In 1983, having obtained more funding and outgrown its former site, it moved and is now located on Castlefield, near the site of the original Roman fort in Manchester; it incorporates Liverpool Road Station (vacated by British Rail in 1975), one of the original termini of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first passenger railway.
There are extensive displays on the theme of transport (railway locomotives and rolling stock, aircraft, and space vehicles), power (water, electricity, steam and gas engines), Manchester's sewerage and sanitation, textiles, communications and computing. The also have steam train rides at the railway station pulled by a replica of a Planet Steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson.
A new Connected Earth gallery that tells the history of communications in Manchester and the North West of England opens in October 2007.
[edit] Exhibitions
The Museum of Science and Industry is home to some impressive items these include:-
- A complete RAF Avro Shackleton, built locally at Chadderton and Woodford
- A Supermarine Spitfire
- A Hawker Hunter
- A British Rail Class 77 EM2 1.5 kV DC electric locomotive.
- A South African GL class Beyer-Garratt
The museum is hosting the 'Doctor Who Up Close' exhibition from April to November 2007.
[edit] See also
- LMR 57 Lion Britain's oldest steamable locomotive
[edit] External links
- Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
- Museum information from Museums United
- 24 Hour Museum entry
- Designated Collections information from the MLA
