The Latest Breaking News from Manchester Museum

The man set to become the next Prime Minister of the UK is also an avid guitar player – and he’s jammed with a Stone Roses guitarist

Andy Burnham recently showed off his chops in front of a Manchester guitar legend

Guitar World · Jul 1

Manchester Museum seeks help to uncover hidden histories of African collection

New Africa Hub confronts colonial-era silences by asking visitors to share insights on 40,000 objects

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025

Manchester Museum asks visitors if Egyptian woman’s body should be taken off display

Asru, who lived 2,700 years ago, has been on display for two centuries but museum is trying to ‘decolonise’ exhibits

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29, 2025

‘You’re made to feel you don’t belong’: the black hikers challenging UK rural stereotypes

Black Girls Hike will explore themes of prejudice and diversity in the countryside at Manchester Museum exhibition

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2024

From Shakespeare’s lost plays to the world’s oldest horse: the bumper Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 quiz

The five nominees competing to be crowned the UK’s best museum have each sent in five devilish questions about their collections – how culturally clued up are you?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2024

Four photos that show the potential of rewilding nature

As curator at Manchester Museum for 18 years, I’ve helped create a new exhibition, Wild, that showcases some incredible projects that are bringing plants and animals back from the brink of extinction, healing the land and restoring hope.

The Conversation · Jun 4, 2024

Revamped National Portrait Gallery among contenders for museum of the year

Shortlist dominated by institutions that have undergone extensive renovations, including Young V&A and Manchester Museum

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024

London museums lag behind regional peers in returning disputed objects

Museums from Glasgow to Cambridge proactively repatriating objects while national institutions ‘forced into position of inertia’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2023

What Manchester Museum’s return of 174 Indigenous artefacts tells us about the future of museums

Manchester Museum has formally handed over 174 cultural heritage items to a delegation of women from the Anindilyakwa community of Groote Eylandt, an island in the Northern Territory.

The Conversation · Sep 13, 2023

Manchester Museum hands back 174 objects to Indigenous Australian islanders

Return of items to Anindilyakwa community hailed as landmark example of cultural repatriation

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2023