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A unique northern heritage site, where every event supports a great social cause.

Corporate Events

Elevate your corporate event by hosting it at People’s History Museum. As a Grade-II listed building, your event will truly stand out in a stunning, historic setting. Located in the City-Centre, our versatile, multi-use spaces can be tailored to suit any event, ensuring the perfect setting for your business needs and easy access for attendees. Whether you’re looking for a sophisticated, professional environment or a more casual, dynamic setting, we can adapt to fit your requirements.

Weddings

Celebrate your wedding at People’s History Museum, where every detail is curated around you as a couple to create your perfect day. Our personalised and bespoke approach to planning, catering and decoration ensures your wedding is unique, with spaces that reflect your style and vision. Set in a venue rich in character, your wedding will be distinctive and unforgettable, blending timeless heritage with contemporary elegance for a celebration that’s exclusively yours.

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Film & Photography Shoots

Our spacious Central Manchester location combined with our versatile spaces make People’s History Museum an exceptional choice for filming and photography. With a mixture of Edwardian industrial architecture and clear contemporary spaces, our riverside location is the perfect backdrop for your project, whilst also accommodating production crew’s needs. Let us support your production with our adaptive and inspiring spaces.

Social Occasions

Situated in the heart of Spinningfields, People’s History Museum offers a unique setting that seamlessly blends heritage with contemporary style and urban-living. With spaces that can cater to intimate gatherings or grand celebrations, your event can be styled to your personal taste. And with the option to carry on the celebration throughout the night, your event at People’s History Museum promises an unforgettable experience from start to finish.

People’s History Museum (PHM), the national museum of democracy, is situated in Spinningfields, central Manchester. Choosing PHM as your event venue means contributing to a greater cause.

All proceeds directly support our social mission as a free museum, dedicated to inspiring activism by sharing the story of democracy: past, present, and future.

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venuehire@phm.org.uk

+44 (0) 161 838 9190

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People's History Museum exterior

Riverside Room

Engine Hall workshop

Coal Store workshop

Peterloo. mural, 2018 by Axel Void

Engine Hall conference

Engine Hall celebration

Engine Hall wedding ceremony

Riverside Room

Engine Hall wedding ceremony

Engine Hall design event

Coal Store ceremony

Spaces

Engine Hall

A large room with rows of chairs, a stage and a screen

Cabaret: 75 people
Banquet: 100 people
Lecture theatre: 100 people
Standing reception: 200 people

Coal Store

A room with a long table surrounded by chairs

Boardroom: 35 people
Cabaret: 36 people
Lecture theatre: 50 people
Standing reception: 65 people

Riverside Room

A room with tables and chairs

Long dining: 35 people
Workshop: 42 people
Banquet: 45 people
Standing reception: 65 people

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Catering

Our in house caterer Open Kitchen make delicious food that aims to change the food system, reducing waste and food poverty. The team of passionate chefs create flavourful dishes working only with local, sustainable, and ethical suppliers.

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Find us

All central Manchester train stations and tram stations are within walking distance:

20 minute walk from Manchester Piccadilly Station
20 minute walk from Oxford Road Station
10 minute walk from St Peter’s Square Metrolink

Parking can be found locally at:

Bridge Street, M3 5AH (1 min walk)
Spinningfields NCP, M3 3BE (4 min walk)

venuehire@phm.org.uk
+44 (0) 161 838 9190

People’s History Museum
Left Bank, Spinningfields
Manchester M3 3ER

Find out about access at PHM

PHM hires event spaces to a wide variety of individuals and organisations. Hiring an event space at PHM is not an endorsement of activities, views or aims.

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