Image of Collection of matchboxes with Time To Strike! graphic designed by the Rickard Sisters, 2024.

PHM shop

A curated selection of gifts, fashion, and homewear

Shop the collection

At PHM until 20 December 2024

Etsy MCR team pop up shop

Have a festive browse

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Visit us over the festive season

Plan your visit

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On show until 24 March 2025

Deceptioncon robot costume

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Image of Three big colourful textile banners hanging in a large gallery space.

On show until 5 January 2025

2024 Banner Exhibition

Explore

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Every weekend & Manchester school holiday

Playful Protest Space

And more Family Friendly activities

Visit

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

Check out what's on

Family Friendly

2024 Banner Bingo

FREE | From Thursday 1 February 2024 to Monday 30 December 2024

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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 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 21 April 2025

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Family Friendly

2024 Banner Exhibition

FREE | From Thursday 1 February 2024 to Sunday 5 January 2025

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exhibition

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 31 March 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

Exploring the Legacies of Empire: Some Perspectives from the Global South

FREE | From Saturday 5 October 2024 to Sunday 12 January 2025

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Deceptioncon robot costume

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

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Etsy MCR team pop-up shop

Free | From Saturday 30 November 2024 to Friday 20 December 2024

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Family Friendly

Playful Protest Space

FREE | From Saturday 14 December 2024 to Sunday 15 December 2024

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Left Book Club at PHM

FREE | Saturday 14 December 2024, 1.30pm - 3.00pm

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