Get a friendly welcome at People's History Museum in Manchester, the national museum of democracy. Explore the museum and be empowered by the past to make a change for the future.
Follow the link below to plan your visit, and find out what to expect when you get to PHM.
Plan your visit
For group visits of over six people, follow the link below to fill in an enquiry form.
Booking is required to guarantee entry.
Group bookings are available all day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and on Friday mornings.
Book your group visit
The museum is located on the corner of Left Bank and Bridge Street, opposite the Civil Justice Centre, alongside the River Irwell, in the Spinningfields area of Manchester city centre, postcode M3 3ER.
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Follow the link below for information on how to get to PHM.
Getting to PHM
The museum is Family Friendly throughout, from facilities to family favourites including hands-on interactives and activities connecting you and your family with PHM’s unique collections and stories.
Bring your buggies, refillable water bottles and expect a warm welcome, simple signage, accessible toilets, and plenty of picnic places.
The museum has a Quiet Room you can use during your visit and sensory tools can be borrowed from access stations throughout the museum.
Plan your family visit
We are committed to supporting all visitors during their time at PHM. We understand that everyone’s access needs are different.
Please talk to us if you have queries or require any assistance in advance of your visit on 0161 838 9190 or access@phm.org.uk.
For accessibility information check out our Detailed Access Guide on the AccessAble website.
Access at PHM
Explore PHM’s galleries, exhibitions, and hands-on and digital interactives engaging adults and children alike.
Use PHM’s visitor map to familiarise yourself with the museum building ahead of your visit.
Find out what's on
Take a break for brunch, lunch, or an afternoon pick me up in PHM’s café Gather
A picnic area is available for visitors bringing their own food and drink to the museum.
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A unique gift shop in Manchester inspired by the museum’s collection, full of books, cards, homeware, souvenirs and great presents for kids and grown ups.
Shop the collection
Join other visitors and make a donation today, helping to ensure the museum remains free for all.
Support PHM
As On The Line: 100 Years of Strikes & Solidarity finally comes to a close, we want to thank everyone who came to see it at People’s History Museum.
Over the course of the exhibition, we welcomed over 61k people to the museum who came to hear the stories of working people who stood together for better pay, safer workplaces and fairer treatment- now that`s a pretty major figure of people who still believe in solidarity✊🏼
It’s been wonderful to see how many of you made time for those stories, and many of you took a little piece of the exhibition home, too with our On The Line magnets and miners’ strike mini pins.
If there’s a story from the exhibition that’s stayed with you, we’d love to hear it ... ✍🏽
#PHM #OnTheLine #PeoplesHistoryMuseum #StrikesAndSolidarity #WorkingClassHistory
✊🏼 Today is the final day of On The Line: 100 Years of Strikes & Solidarity at People’s History Museum.
100 years of people standing together, speaking up and fighting for change, told through the banners, objects, artwork and stories they left behind.
Come on your lunch break, sneak out of work an hour early (we won’t tell 👀), or make that last-minute dash to PHM.
Open today until 5pm | Free entry
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🎃 Visiting PHM this Halloween weekend?
Make sure you leave a little room for a spooky treat at @gatherphm Café. We’ve got Halloween cupcakes and ghost cookies ready and waiting for little ones (and grown-ups too 👀)
The perfect sweet stop before or after exploring the museum.
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💀What better time than Halloween to meet one of the more unusual characters in PHM’s collection ....
This skeleton was once used by the `Liverpool Tin Plate Workers Society` as part of the initiation of new members, including James Hogarth.
It’s one of the more unusual stories you’ll find at PHM, revealing the rituals and traditions that formed part of working people’s lives and organisations.
And if that’s inspired you, join us this Halloween weekend and make your very own skeleton face mask to take home💀✂️
📍 Free entry. Open 10am to 5pm Wed to Mon.
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📸 ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT to capture On The Line Exhibition
After more than seven months at People’s History Museum, On The Line: 100 Years of Strikes & Solidarity comes to a close this Monday 2 November at 5pm ✊🏼
Explore a century of stories, objects, posters and photographs that show what happens when people stand together and fight for change.
If it’s been on your list, this is your final weekend to see it.
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Every object in On The Line has a story to tell.
This truncheon dates from the 1926 General Strike, when millions of workers across Britain stopped work in support of coal miners facing cuts to their pay and working conditions. Volunteers were recruited as special constables to support the police during the strike.
It’s one of many objects in the exhibition, alongside banners, badges, posters, photographs and items from the picket line, each revealing a different side of 100 years of strikes and solidarity.
There’s not long left to see them together.
🚩Visit On The Line: 100 years of Strikes & Solidarity before it closes on Monday 2 November.
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If democracy, people power, big ideas and fighting for change are your vibe … then you’re due a visit to People’s History Museum ✊🏼
Discover the people and movements that fought to make a difference.
📍 People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Manchester
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🎄 The Winter Makers Market is back at People’s History Museum – and this year it’s bigger than ever!
Join us on Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 November as our Edwardian Engine Hall fills with a wonderful collection of independent makers, artists and designers for a weekend of festive shopping.
Come and meet the traders and find one-of-a-kind gifts, art and homeware you won’t find on the high street, and plenty more happening across the weekend too.
🎶 Live performances from the @hallechoir on Saturday and @magicvoices Choir on Sunday
🎨 Christmas lino printing workshops with illustrator and printmaker @halinaisherwood
🍸 Spirited Women, a historical cocktail tasting experience with historian Simon Sharp from @nautilusginexperiences
🍴 Plus festive food and drink from @gatherphm , including currywurst, fries and Christmas dinner sandwiches
🎁 Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 November, 11am to 4.30pm **FREE entry**
You can also get a first look at our special preview evening on Friday 20 November, 5–8pm. Tickets are £10 and include mulled wine, a small gift and candle making demonstration.
View the full line-up of makers, events and workshops at phm.org.uk.
📍 People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER
This free event is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, GMCA & ACE.
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