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The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

The museum is on the site of the world's oldest surviving passenger railway station. With objects and archives that cover Manchester's development as Britain's first industrial city, the museum takes visitors through many subject areas such as textiles, power supply, engineering, computing and aviation.

The museum is one of the Connected Earth partner museums. Its new gallery - Connecting Manchester - is situated in the historic 1830 Warehouse. Here the many aspects of communications and display artefacts from BT's distributed heritage collection can be explored. The Gallery tells the story of communications in the Manchester region, and how new communication technologies assisted the city's commercial and industrial development.

Visitor information

Visitor information

Welcome to Connected Earth at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. There are many exciting things to see and do at the Museum...

3D objects

3D objects

Experience our interactive 3D objects and view some of the Connected Earth objects and artefacts available at the Museum of Science and Industry.

The need to communicate

The need to communicate

Come and have your ideas challenged!

Just how much do you appreciate the ...

Manchester's key messages and themes

Manchester's key messages and themes

Highlights of the new Connecting Manchester gallery include Manchester's key contribution to developing mass communication and how it has assisted the commercial and industrial development of Manchester and the North ...

Artefacts on display

Artefacts on display

The new Connecting Manchester gallery, located in the historic 1830 Warehouse, includes a range of collections and other media. BT has transferred to the museum items from its collection relating to the development and ...


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