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How can museums of science and industry better tell the stories of women of...
Workers leaving the Metropolitan Vickers engineering works in Trafford Park, 1957. Amongst the crowds are several unidentified women of the Global Majority. Kirat’s research aims to increase our...
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New national AI award celebrates Manchester’s past, present and future as a...
The prize—welcome recognition for a city that’s the birthplace of modern computing—was announced by the Chancellor as part of a ‘quantum strategy’ with a research and innovation programme totalling...
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Celebrating 75 years of Baby
In June 1948, the original Baby became the first stored program computer, meaning it was the first machine to work like the computers on our desks today. Eric and Kira belong to a team of dedicated...
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Researching Manchester’s textile merchants – The story of Langworthy Brothers
Until his project, this archive had been virtually unexplored, and little was known about Langworthy’s story. Alexander’s research will help to enable the museum to tell richer and more wide-ranging...
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Free Your Mind with internationally significant objects
The world’s only working replica of Baby on display at the Science and Industry Museum. Science Museum Group © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Arkwright’s Water Frame Created by Richard...
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Santa, Baby!
2023 has been a milestone year for one of the Science and Industry Museum’s most iconic objects. The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, better known as ‘Baby’, was the first stored program computer and...
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A Revolution Manchester Christmas List
Wondering what to get for the person who has everything? Our curatorial colleagues have come together to create a list of gift ideas and Christmas essentials influenced by some of the wonderful objects...
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Time for a cuppa
Pyramid teabag making machines at Trafford Park.Science Museum Group © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum In 1869 a young tea dealer named Arthur Brooke opened his first tea house, on Market...
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Smaller, brighter, faster, stronger: extremes in the museum collection
In this blog, curators Thomas Lean and Sarah Baines highlight some of the extreme stories you can experience in our galleries in the lead up to Manchester Science Festival. Faster… than a horse: Model...
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Cotton Connections: Global narratives and community partnerships
WHAT IS COTTON CONNECTIONS? Cotton Connections is a two-year community project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund and Arts Council England, which explores the museum’s textiles industry...
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Extreme textiles
In this blog, Science and Industry Museum Collaborative Doctoral Partnership student Bethany Turner-Pemberton shares more about the graphene jacket and explores other objects from the museum’s textiles...
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Scenery, snacks and suitcases: South Asian Heritage Month at the museum
As part of last year’s South Asian Heritage Month, the museum welcomed Ananna Young Women’s Group for a workshop entitled Railway Stories: Scenery, Snacks and Suitcases. Ananna is an organisation which...
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