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Visit Anindilyakwa Arts: Stories from our Country

Plan your visit

Everyone belongs at Manchester Museum and entry is free.

Find out our opening hours, how to get here, and familiarise yourself with our spaces before you visit.

On Wednesday 14 May, our natural history galleries (Fossils and Dinosaurs, Living Worlds, Nature’s Library, and the Vivarium) will close at 5pm for a private event. All our other spaces will be open until 9pm as usual on a Wednesday!

And on Saturday 17 May, our Fossils and Dinosaurs gallery will close at 3pm – Stan is hosting a wedding! The rest of our galleries will be open until 5pm, and you will receive the same warm welcome as usual.

Plan your visit

Learn

Our learning programmes ask big questions to spark your imagination.

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Collections

We care for over 4.5 million objects from human cultures and natural sciences.

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Making the museum

The museum is over 130 years old and has recently been transformed.

Read about the museum and its history