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Manchester Indie Film Makers Group

Media Lounge

We are a group of collective creatives who use film and media to produce original productions which are hopefully both thought provoking and offer a fresh view of how film […]

Manchester Voices – Interactive Exhibition

Archives+ Ground Floor

Manchester Voices is an ongoing project investigating and celebrating the accents, dialects, and people of Greater Manchester. It looks at the ways in which our use of language makes us […]

Piccadilly Gardens Exhibition: How Did Your Garden Grow?

Lower Ground Floor Exhibition Space

The Architecture School for Children have worked with 4 local schools from the Moss Side and Hulme area of Manchester, St Marys C of E Primary, Claremont Road Primary, Webster […]

Read Manchester BookBench Trail 

Come into Central Library to pick up your Trail map and plan your summer activities around our BookBenches!  Venues across the city are hosting 58 BookBench sculptures - all decorated […]

Deities at the Bottom of the Garden

First Floor Exhibition Hall

In this fascinating exhibition, artist Richard Bartle explores in minute detail the customs and icons of major world religions and belief systems. Manifested in a series of 12 scale modelled garden […]

Central Library in LEGO

Pop in and see this wonderful LEGO model of Central Library, which was built by Robert Clarkson for ‘Bricktastic’ at Manchester Convention Centre in 2015.  It has been shown around […]