Image of Landscape banner with painted text: ‘Lesbians & Gays Support The Miners’, with a yellow rectangle border at the bottom, and maroon boarders on the left and right sides. The ‘o’ in Support is a peace symbol.

Discover the museum’s LGBTQIA+ collections

LGBT+ History Month events

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Build your own robot from recycled materials

Half term junkbots!

Free Family Friendly activity

Image of A square shaped quilt made up of hundreds of small scraps of material. Each scrap has a different pattern or colour. The four corners of the quilt have tassels, that have been made out of similar offcuts of material.

On show until 29 December 2025

2025 Banner Exhibition

A colourful mix of historic and contemporary

A very special late event

40 Years of LGSM

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Find a spark with our Time To Strike matches!

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FREE ENTRY, most visitors donate £10

People’s History Museum
Left Bank
Spinningfields
Manchester M3 3ER
0161 838 9190

Plan your visit

Museum, shop, cafe:
– Open: 10.00am to 5.00pm, every day except Tuesdays
– Closed: 24, 25, 26 December & 1 January
– Make a group booking

Labour History Archive & Study Centre:
– Visit by appointment

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Welcome

People’s History Museum is the national museum of democracy, telling the story of its development in Britain: past, present, and future.

Explore the radical stories of people coming together to champion ideas worth fighting for, and be empowered by the past to make a change for the future.

We are all together in the fight for a fairer world.

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What's On

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Image of radical women, left to right: Mary Fildes, Annie Besant, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Jayaben Desai. Illustrations by the Rickard Sisters, 2023. Image courtesy of People's History Museum.

Radical women trail

£1.50 per trail sheet | From Thursday 1 February 2024 to Monday 21 April 2025

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Image of young child in suffragette dress up at People's History Museum.

Family Friendly

Little suffragettes trail

£2.50 | From Thursday 1 February 2024 to Monday 2 June 2025

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Image of Brightly coloured graphic featuring a raised fist holding an oversized lit match, with the text: 'Time To Strike!'

Family Friendly

Gallery One & Gallery Two

FREE | Open every day except Tuesdays

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gallery

Image of mosaic featuring Constance Markievicz and text: 'Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank and buy a revolver.'

Constance Markievicz mosaic

FREE | From Wednesday 8 May 2024 to Monday 2 June 2025

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installation

Image of Left to right: a plate with a colourful illustration of people and police in confrontation, including text: ‘The Battle of Cable Street, 1936, and a yellow badge with a black illustration of a raised fist and text: ‘mk campaign against racism and fascism’.

Collection Spotlight

FREE | From Wednesday 2 October 2024 to Monday 31 March 2025

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display

Image of Photograph showing a person in a silver robot costume with 'Deceptioncon' written on the front, and people in the background wearing orange high-vis jackets and waving GMB union flags.

Deceptioncon robot costume

FREE | From Friday 29 November 2024 to Monday 24 March 2025

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Image of A landscape rectangular red banner with yellow text: ‘Young Communists say Coal Not Dole’ with a woman (PHM Conservation Manager Jenny Van Enckevort) standing on the left, reaching up to adjust the top of the banner on its hanging pole.

Family Friendly

2025 Banner Exhibition

FREE | From Saturday 18 January 2025 to Monday 29 December 2025

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Family Friendly

2025 Banner Bingo

FREE | From Saturday 18 January 2025 to Monday 29 December 2025

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Tour

LGBT+ History Month guided tour

Full price £10 | Concession £6 | FREE | Thursday 13 February 2025, 12.15pm - 1.00pm

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Family Friendly

Playful Protest Space

FREE | From Saturday 15 February 2025 to Sunday 23 February 2025

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Family Friendly

Half term junkbots

FREE | From Saturday 15 February 2025 to Sunday 23 February 2025

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Display

Talk

Solidarity Forever: 40 Years of LGSM

Full price £20 | Concession £10 | FREE | Thursday 27 February 2025, 6.00pm - 9.00pm

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