Attractions and Places to Visit in Manchester
There are endless attractions and places to visit in Manchester. Be absorbed by the beautiful gothic architecture at John Rylands Library and Manchester Cathedral. Take in fine art at Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth. Discover history, old and new, at Manchester Museum and the Imperial War Museum.
Of course Manchester is synonymous with football. So make some time tour of the grounds of Manchester United and Manchester City, and discover the social history of the beautiful game at the National Football Museum.
For those who enjoy the outdoors, a short journey from the city centre provides access to beautiful walks at such as Hollingworth Lake, Heaton Park, Sale Water Park and Haigh Hall.
As the commercial and cultural capital of Lancashire, Manchester is a noted center for the arts, media, and higher education. Together with Salford and eight other municipalities it forms the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, in which some 3 million people now live.
The city played a big part in the industrial revolution and still contributes strongly to the British economy. It is one of the most lively and modern cities in Great Britain boasting impressive galleries, renowned theatres, fantastic shopping centres, clubs, museums and music, fine dining restaurants and cosmopolitan cafés.
Mancunian people are known throughout the country for their conviviality and hospitality and will provide you with many opportunities to continue practising your English outside of the classroom!
Beautiful English countryside such as the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the historical cities of York and Chester are all easily accessible from Manchester and offer a picturesque view of the traditional British way of life.
The Museum of Science and Industry, housed in the former Liverpool Road railway station, has a large collection of steam locomotives, industrial machinery, aircraft and a replica of the world’s first stored computer program (known as The Baby).
The Manchester Museum opened to the public in the 1880s, has notable Egyptology and natural history collections.
Manchester is such a great place to visit.
It is a city of doers and workers, and the old Industrial Revolution symbol of the worker bee, which still studs the mosaic floors of the Town Hall, feels as apt now as it ever did during Manchester’s industrial heyday.
In the south of the city, the Whitworth Art Gallery displays modern art, sculpture and textiles.
Other exhibition spaces and museums in Manchester include the Cornerhouse, the Urbis centre, the Manchester Costume Gallery at Platt Fields Park, the People’s History Museum and the Manchester Jewish Museum.
The works of Stretford-born painter L. S. Lowry, known for his “matchstick” paintings of industrial Manchester and Salford, can be seen in both the city and Whitworth Manchester galleries, and at the Lowry art centre in Salford Quays (in the neighbouring borough of Salford) devotes a large permanent exhibition to his works.
