Manchester
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The Culture of Manchester is notable musically, theatrically, architecturally and artistically. Despite being the fifth largest city in the UK by population and the 2nd largest conurbation, the city is ranked as the 2nd city in the UK in many polls since the 2000s, with a very influential culture scene that helps to elevate the importance of Manchester in the national psyche.
This has helped the population of the city to grow by 20 per cent in the last ten years, making the universities to be the most popular option for undergraduate admission. Here is a summary of the culture and tourist hot spots in Manchester.
Museum of Science and Industry
MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry), which is now known as the Science and Industry Museum, is a large museum that's dedicated to science, technology and industry development with emphasis on the achievements in the city in these fields.
MOSI is part of SMG (Science Museum Group), which is a non-departmental public DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport) body, having merged in 2012 with the NSM (National Science Museum). There are extensive displays in the museum on the theme of computing, communications, textiles, Manchester's sewerage and sanitation, power (electricity, water, steam and gas engines) and transport (rolling stock, railway locomotives, aircraft and cars).
Chinatown
Chinatown in Manchester is an ethnic enclave located in the city centre. It's the 2nd largest Chinatown in the UK and the 3rd largest in Europe. Chinatown has a richly decorated arched gateway on Faulkner Street that was completed in the years 1987, and it contains many Malaysian, Singaporean, Vietnamese, Nepali, Japanese, Thai and Chinese supermarkets, bakeries, shops and restaurants. The unique Chinese artworks and handicrafts are found at the CFCCA (Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art).
National Football Museum
Manchester is home to 2 of the top football teams in Europe (Manchester United and Manchester City), making the city a great place where visitors can pay homage to the favourite sport in the country. First stop for a visitor should be the Urbis building-based National Football Museum.
The football shrine features enthralling memorabilia that are related to the sport. This includes such gems as the first rulebook and historic trophies plus clothing. Various great short movies show the sport's history, while fun hands-on (as well as feet-on, for that matter) shows provide lots of additional entertainment for young people.
It is worth visiting one or even both of the home stadiums of these Manchester teams. Also, Manchester City's Etihad Stadium is offering various fun tour options, which includes behind-the-scenes plus deluxe dinner tours. Old Trafford, which is home to Man United, offers visitors guided tours that allow them access to private boxes plus the opportunity of treading the field itself.
Whitworth Art Gallery
It's an art gallery that contains a collection of around 55,000 items. Located in Whitworth Park, the gallery is part of the public research university, University of Manchester. The Whitworth reopened in 2015 after being transformed by a 15-million-pound capital redevelopment that doubled the gallery exhibition spaces, restored the period features and then opened up to its neighbouring park. In its first year, Whitworth Art Gallery received over 440,000 visitors; in 2015, it was given the Art Fund Museum of the Year award.
It has notable collections of textiles, wallpapers, sculptures and watercolours. It focuses on modern artists; the art collections in the gallery include works by William Blake, William Blake, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ford Madox Brown, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. One of the gallery's most famous works of all time is the 1929–31 marble sculpture Genesis by Sir Jacob Epstein.
Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall
Platt Hall is an elegant Georgian house that was built in 1764. It's now part of the publicly owned art museum called Manchester City Art Gallery. It presents an outstanding overview of English fashion plus costumes from the year 1600 to today. Strengths of this museum include its numerous examples of dress worn every day, with the Gallery of Costume that contains one of Britain's largest collections of accessories and costumes.
Heaton Park
Heaton Park covers 600 acres, making it Greater Manchester's biggest park and one of Europe's largest municipal parks. Heaton Park was built in 1772 and lies in the heart of the park; it's an impressive sight, although it's not open to the public. It has been largely restored, and the park retains most of its original vistas and buildings.
Sports enthusiasts are going to enjoy its eighteen-hole golf course, tennis courts, mini putt and driving range, while families and friends can explore the adventure playground, observatory, ornamental gardens, woodlands, animal farm, boating lake and volunteer-run tramway plus museum.
Worth visiting is also Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden, which was founded in 1917. The large green space, which is part wildlife habitat and part botanical garden, is an appealing contrast to the always busy city centre. The popular things that visitors can do here include playing strenuous activities (like football, tennis or rugby) or enjoying a picnic or stroll (there is also a pleasant café).
The People's History Museum
It's the UK's national centre for the collection, interpretation, conservation and study of material that relate to working people history in the United Kingdom. The People's History Museum tells visitors the story of Great Britain's democracy history and also about people's lives at work, leisure and home over the last two centuries.
The collection contains physical objects, printed material plus photographs of people at play, rest and work. Some of the topics that are covered include popular radicalism, football, the 1945 general election, the cooperative movement, dockers, the women's suffrage movement and 19th-century trade unionism. Also, it includes material that relates to the welfare movement, friendly societies plus the advances in the working peoples' lives.
Classical Music
The city has 2 symphony orchestras: the BBC Philharmonic and the Hallé. Also, there's a chamber orchestra called the Manchester Camerata and an amateur orchestra that was founded in 1854 known as the Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra. For many years the main classical venue in Manchester was the Free Trade Hall, which is on Peter Street. However, since 1996, the city has had a state-of-the-art 2,500 seat concert venue known as the Bridgewater Hall, located on Lower Mosley Street.
This hall is one of UK's most technically advanced lecture and classical music venues. It has an acoustically designed interior plus suspended foundations for an excellent sound. Other venues in the city for classical concerts include Manchester Cathedral, the Royal Exchange Theatre and the RNCM.
The Culture of Manchester is notable musically, theatrically, architecturally and artistically. Despite being the fifth largest city in the UK by population and the 2nd largest conurbation, the city is ranked as the 2nd city in the UK in many polls since the 2000s, with a very influential culture scene that helps to elevate the importance of Manchester in the national psyche.
This has helped the population of the city to grow by 20 per cent in the last ten years, making the universities to be the most popular option for undergraduate admission. Here is a summary of the culture and tourist hot spots in Manchester.
Museum of Science and Industry
MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry), which is now known as the Science and Industry Museum, is a large museum that's dedicated to science, technology and industry development with emphasis on the achievements in the city in these fields.
MOSI is part of SMG (Science Museum Group), which is a non-departmental public DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport) body, having merged in 2012 with the NSM (National Science Museum). There are extensive displays in the museum on the theme of computing, communications, textiles, Manchester's sewerage and sanitation, power (electricity, water, steam and gas engines) and transport (rolling stock, railway locomotives, aircraft and cars).
Chinatown
Chinatown in Manchester is an ethnic enclave located in the city centre. It's the 2nd largest Chinatown in the UK and the 3rd largest in Europe. Chinatown has a richly decorated arched gateway on Faulkner Street that was completed in the years 1987, and it contains many Malaysian, Singaporean, Vietnamese, Nepali, Japanese, Thai and Chinese supermarkets, bakeries, shops and restaurants. The unique Chinese artworks and handicrafts are found at the CFCCA (Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art).
National Football Museum
Manchester is home to 2 of the top football teams in Europe (Manchester United and Manchester City), making the city a great place where visitors can pay homage to the favourite sport in the country. First stop for a visitor should be the Urbis building-based National Football Museum.
The football shrine features enthralling memorabilia that are related to the sport. This includes such gems as the first rulebook and historic trophies plus clothing. Various great short movies show the sport's history, while fun hands-on (as well as feet-on, for that matter) shows provide lots of additional entertainment for young people.
It is worth visiting one or even both of the home stadiums of these Manchester teams. Also, Manchester City's Etihad Stadium is offering various fun tour options, which includes behind-the-scenes plus deluxe dinner tours. Old Trafford, which is home to Man United, offers visitors guided tours that allow them access to private boxes plus the opportunity of treading the field itself.
Whitworth Art Gallery
It's an art gallery that contains a collection of around 55,000 items. Located in Whitworth Park, the gallery is part of the public research university, University of Manchester. The Whitworth reopened in 2015 after being transformed by a 15-million-pound capital redevelopment that doubled the gallery exhibition spaces, restored the period features and then opened up to its neighbouring park. In its first year, Whitworth Art Gallery received over 440,000 visitors; in 2015, it was given the Art Fund Museum of the Year award.
It has notable collections of textiles, wallpapers, sculptures and watercolours. It focuses on modern artists; the art collections in the gallery include works by William Blake, William Blake, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ford Madox Brown, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. One of the gallery's most famous works of all time is the 1929–31 marble sculpture Genesis by Sir Jacob Epstein.
Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall
Platt Hall is an elegant Georgian house that was built in 1764. It's now part of the publicly owned art museum called Manchester City Art Gallery. It presents an outstanding overview of English fashion plus costumes from the year 1600 to today. Strengths of this museum include its numerous examples of dress worn every day, with the Gallery of Costume that contains one of Britain's largest collections of accessories and costumes.
Heaton Park
Heaton Park covers 600 acres, making it Greater Manchester's biggest park and one of Europe's largest municipal parks. Heaton Park was built in 1772 and lies in the heart of the park; it's an impressive sight, although it's not open to the public. It has been largely restored, and the park retains most of its original vistas and buildings.
Sports enthusiasts are going to enjoy its eighteen-hole golf course, tennis courts, mini putt and driving range, while families and friends can explore the adventure playground, observatory, ornamental gardens, woodlands, animal farm, boating lake and volunteer-run tramway plus museum.
Worth visiting is also Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden, which was founded in 1917. The large green space, which is part wildlife habitat and part botanical garden, is an appealing contrast to the always busy city centre. The popular things that visitors can do here include playing strenuous activities (like football, tennis or rugby) or enjoying a picnic or stroll (there is also a pleasant café).
The People's History Museum
It's the UK's national centre for the collection, interpretation, conservation and study of material that relate to working people history in the United Kingdom. The People's History Museum tells visitors the story of Great Britain's democracy history and also about people's lives at work, leisure and home over the last two centuries.
The collection contains physical objects, printed material plus photographs of people at play, rest and work. Some of the topics that are covered include popular radicalism, football, the 1945 general election, the cooperative movement, dockers, the women's suffrage movement and 19th-century trade unionism. Also, it includes material that relates to the welfare movement, friendly societies plus the advances in the working peoples' lives.
Classical Music
The city has 2 symphony orchestras: the BBC Philharmonic and the Hallé. Also, there's a chamber orchestra called the Manchester Camerata and an amateur orchestra that was founded in 1854 known as the Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra. For many years the main classical venue in Manchester was the Free Trade Hall, which is on Peter Street. However, since 1996, the city has had a state-of-the-art 2,500 seat concert venue known as the Bridgewater Hall, located on Lower Mosley Street.
This hall is one of UK's most technically advanced lecture and classical music venues. It has an acoustically designed interior plus suspended foundations for an excellent sound. Other venues in the city for classical concerts include Manchester Cathedral, the Royal Exchange Theatre and the RNCM.
