Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

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Museum of Science and Industry.

The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, located in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology, and industry and particularly the city's not inconsiderable contributions to these. It is an Achor Point of ERIH - The European Route of Industrial Heritage.

Exterior of the museum's Air and Space Hall.

The museum used to be located on Grosvenor St to the south of the city centre, and had close ties with UMIST, having mostly grown out of the Department of History of Science & Technology. In 1983, having obtained more funding and outgrown its former site, it moved and is now located on Castlefield, near the site of the original Roman fort in Manchester; it incorporates Liverpool Road Station (vacated by British Rail in 1975), one of the original termini of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first passenger railway.

There are extensive displays on the theme of transport (railway locomotives and rolling stock, aircraft, and space vehicles), power (water, electricity, steam and gas engines), Manchester's sewerage and sanitation, textiles, communications and computing.