List of museums in Greater Manchester

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Museums in Greater Manchester

This list of museums in Greater Manchester, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Name	Image	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
Astley Green Colliery Museum		Astley	Wigan	Mining	Former coal mine with headgear, engine house, and collection of colliery locomotives
Bolton Museum		Bolton	Bolton	Multiple	Local history, natural history, archaeology, art, aquarium, Ancient Egypt
Bolton Steam Museum		Bolton	Bolton	Technology	Preserved steam engines
Bury Transport Museum		Bury	Bury	Transportation	website, located in the former goods warehouse for the East Lancashire Railway, development of transport in the North West, railway cars and equipment, historic road vehicles and buses, steam rollers
Dunham Massey Hall		Dunham Massey	Trafford	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, Georgian house, deer park, gardens
Ellenroad Steam Museum		Newhey	Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale	Technology	website, fully-working 3000 horse-power cotton mill engine with its original steam plant, other steam engines
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum		Rochdale	Rochdale	Firefighting	website, full-size fire appliances, equipment, uniforms, models, photographs, medals and insignia, memorabilia
Greater Manchester Police Museum		Manchester	Manchester	Law enforcement	website, Victorian police station and cells, magistrate's court, historic police equipment and uniforms, vehicles, forgery and forensic science
Heaton Hall		Prestwich	Manchester	Historic house	18th century period country house, located in Heaton Park and operated by Manchester Art Gallery. Park used for some vehicle rallies
Heaton Park Tramway		Prestwich	Manchester	Railway	Restored trams, located in Heaton Park
Horwich Heritage Centre	{{noimage}	Horwich	Metropolitan Borough of Bolton	Local	website, local history, culture, industry, transportation
Imperial War Museum North		Trafford Park	Trafford	Military	20th and 21st century conflicts involving British and Commonwealth citizens
Mossley Industrial Heritage Centre		Mossley	Tameside	Industry	Local cotton industry, houses in a former cotton-spinning mill
Museum of Science and Industry		Manchester	Manchester	Multiple	Science, technology, industry, transportation and the city's contributions
Museum of Transport		Cheetham Hill	Manchester	Transportation	Buses and public transportation history
Museum of Wigan Life		Wigan	Metropolitan Borough of Wigan	Local	Formerly the History Shop and Wigan Public Library. Includes exhibits on local history, culture, archaeology and industry.
Park Bridge Heritage Centre		Park Bridge	Tameside	Local	website, local history, ironworks, natural history
Portland Basin Museum		Ashton-under-Lyne	Tameside	Local	Local history, industry, trades, 1920s street with shops, period rooms, historic machines
Setantii Museum		Ashton-under-Lyne	Tameside	Local	website, local history, archaeology, culture, design and construction of the Longdendale reservoirs in the Waterworks gallery
Stockport Story Museum		Stockport	Metropolitan Borough of Stockport	Local	website, local history, archaeology, industry, transportation, culture
Trencherfield Mill Steam Engine		Wigan	Wigan	Technology	Massive 2,500 horse power working steam engine for the textile mill, open on Sundays
Urbis		Manchester	Manchester	Sports	Exhibition centre that will house the relocated National Football Museum in 2011
Vernon Park Museum		Offerton	Stockport	Local	website, local history, archaeology, costume and textiles, fine art, transport, science and technology and social history

See also

• Category:Visitor attractions in Greater Manchester

References

• Manchester Museums
• Visit Manchester