Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester, in England.
Manchester Museum is the UK’s leading university museum and a proud part of the University of Manchester.
We are open seven days a week, and free to all.
Explore our collection on curator blogs, while the international research that takes place here and within the university is often open to our visitors.
From Darwin to Turing, from natural history and the environment to technology and the environmental, via objects as remarkable as dinosaur skeletons and mummies from Ancient Egypt: our collection spans millennia, and over four million objects.
Opening Times
We're now open 10am-5pm on Sundays, Mondays and Bank holidays! 24-26 Dec, 1 Jan: closed
Museum and Shop
Daily: 10am-5pm
Free entry
Café:
Monday - Friday 8-5pm
Saturday & Sunday 9-5pm.
Accessibility
Parking
- The venue does have its own car park.
- Parking is not free for all users.
- Parking is free for Blue Badge holders.
- The car park is outside the Rutherford Building on Coupland Street.
- The car park type is open air/surface.
- Parking spaces for Blue Badge holders do need to be booked in advance.
- There are 6 designated parking bay(s) within the car park.
- The dimensions of the designated parking bay(s) are 400cm x 500cm (13ft x 16ft).
- The nearest designated bay is 37m (40yd 18in) from the main entrance.
- The furthest designated bay is 57m (62yd 13in) from the main entrance.
- The route from the car park to the entrance is accessible to a wheelchair user with assistance.
- Assistance may be required because there is / are slopes/ramps.
- The car park surface is tarmac.
- The patron does not have to cross a road.
- The car park does not have a height restriction barrier.
Museum
- Exhibits can be audio described.
- Tactile signage for exhibits is available.
- There is a hearing assistance system.
- The hearing system is a fixed loop.
- Staff are trained to use the the hearing system.
- A deposit is not required for the hearing system.
- There is a wheelchair to borrow.
Accessible Toilet
- There are accessible toilets within this venue designated for public use.
- The toilet is not for the sole use of disabled people.
- There is Braille, tactile and pictorial signage on or near the toilet door.
- The accessible toilet is 11m (12yd) from the main lift.
- The accessible toilet is located on basement level next to the Education department.
- There is level access to the accessible toilet.
- This is by lift.
