At this comprehensive Science museum which has been set up inside warehouses and in the oldest passenger station in the world, (Liverpool Road Station, 1830) you can get to know all the activities which have been developed in Manchester, categorised by themes (printing, textiles, machine tools, gas, electricity). One section dedicated to air and space tells the story of aviation from the first cuckoos to the space age

On the outskirts of the town, in three galleries, many objects from the life of the British in India, from the time of the India Company in the 17C to Indian Independence in 1947. The collection includes medals, drawings, models and letters as well as a mosque window, tiger skin and Indian clothes worn by EM Foster, author of A Passage to India.

This museum exhibits a panorama of the British school, from the portraits of the Elizabethan era to the important works of Stubbs. Many paintings from the Italian school dating from the 14C are on display here, as well as many interesting Northern European works. A small number of French impressionist paintings are also on show.

Paper and textile collections provide the content for an excellent showing of modern art that includes Snow White and Her Stepmother by Paula Rego, works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Millais, as well as sets of satirical etchings by Gillray and Cruikshank. The sculptures of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore are just some of the pieces on show in Mezzanine Court, one of the walls of which, is formed by a red brick façade of an Edwardian building.