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Manchester Art Gallery is the city's public art museum on Mosley Street, run by Manchester City Council. Its main building, with an Ionic portico by Sir Charles Barry, was built between 1824 and 1835 for the Royal Manchester Institution and is linked to Barry's Athenaeum by a 2002 extension by Hopkins Architects. The collection holds more than 25,000 objects.

The People's History Museum is Britain's national museum of the history of working people and democracy, on the River Irwell in Manchester. It occupies a former hydraulic pumping station and a four-storey extension opened in 2010, and its displays cover topics from the Peterloo Massacre and trade unions to women's suffrage and the 1945 election.

The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, part of the Science Museum Group, stands on the site of Liverpool Road station, opened in 1830 as the Manchester terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first inter-city passenger line. Its galleries cover textiles, steam and electric power, railways, communications and computing.

The National Football Museum is England's national museum of football, housed since 2012 in Urbis, a sloping glass building by Ian Simpson in Manchester's Cathedral Gardens. Moved from Deepdale in Preston, it fills four floors with collections such as the 1863 rule book of the Football Association, club displays and interactive games.

Imperial War Museum North is a branch of the Imperial War Museum on the Manchester Ship Canal at Trafford Wharf, facing Salford Quays. Daniel Libeskind designed it as three shards of a shattered globe; it opened in 2002, and its curved main gallery traces conflicts from 1914 to today with objects such as a T-34 tank and a Harrier jet.