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Factory International

New landmark building containing performance spaces and new home to the Manchester International Festival. Opening in June 2023.

Address: Water Street, M3 4JQ
Website: factoryinternational.org (opens in a new tab)

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Science and Industry Museum
This is a great museum for those interested in technology and industrial heritage: sited at one end of the world's first passenger railway line. The working cotton weaving machines are particularly worth experiencing. Catch one of their regular demonstrations of their operation. There is also the opportunity to explore the city's former sewers (now fully cleaned!) to get an idea of the living (and dying) conditions of Manchester's cotton workers. Most impressive of all is the huge collection of working engines in the Power Hall (closed until 2024), powered by steam, gas, water, you name it. The museum also hosts the first steam train (and with it, the first ever vehicle to run faster than a horse), as well as the first programmable computer with a cathode ray tube memory.
10AM-5PM dailyFree, except for temporary exhibits (prices vary)
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Oxnoble
Away from the Castlefield basin on Liverpool Road you will find The Oxnoble. It has the distinction of being the only pub in the country to be named after a potato - the Ox Noble.
Sun-Wed 9AM-11PM, Thu-Sat 9AM-midnight
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Castlefield Viaduct
Victorian railway viaduct transformed into a 'sky park' Advance booking essential. Check website. Open on an experimental basis until summer 2023.
11AM-4PMFree but donations welcome
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Manchester Opera House
Sister theatre to The Palace Theatre. Host to touring musicals, ballet, concerts.