Cultural institutions

The Manchester Museum is the UK’s leading university museum with a collection that spans millennia and comprises over four million objects. Here you can find anything from Darwin to Turing, from natural history and the environment to technology and the environment, via objects as remarkable as dinosaur skeletons and mummies from Ancient Egypt.

The Museum holds regular educational live streams suitable for all ages where students can submit their own questions to ask the experts. Topics include Egyptology and Dinosaurs.

Jodrell Bank is a world-famous radio observatory and UNESCO World Heritage Site. For the last 75 years, the pioneering scientists and researchers at Jodrell Bank have been at the forefront of our quest for understanding, and at the heart of ground-breaking discoveries and world-leading research.

• Explore their new science learning at home pages for resources including talks by influential scientists and podcasts from the archives which will excite anyone interested in astrophysics.
• You can also access interactive teaching resources on the visible spectrum of light.

The Special Collections Division at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library holds outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives. Spanning five millennia, the manuscript collections include literary, historical, antiquarian, genealogical, biblical, devotional, ritualistic, medical, scientific, legal and administrative texts in numerous languages.

• Visit Manchester Digital Collections for access to a range of manuscripts.