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  • Our Town Hall

    Lower Ground Floor Exhibition Space

    This exhibition showcases the Our Town Hall project on the major refurbishment to Manchester Town Hall, taking place until 2024. During this time, a series of creative projects that connect […]

  • Manchester’s Lost District

    Archives+ Ground Floor

    A exhibition of many previously unseen photographs of the area now covered by the Manchester Arndale. They include the pubs, clubs, chapels and many shops and businesses swept away to […]

  • LGBTQ+ MIXTAPE

    This LGBT History Month Unlocking Our Sound Heritage presents an intimate room of curated archive audio and immersive projections. Manchester's LGBTQ+ community took to both the streets and the dancefloor […]

  • Urban Archaeology – Online Exhibition

    Online

    PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS AN ONLINE EXHIBITION This month, artist / photograper Steve Marland was due to show his fascinating exhibition, Urban Archaeology, in the library's first floor display […]

  • Manchester: Life Under Lockdown

    Online

    PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS AN ONLINE EXHIBITION Art and Design students and staff at The Manchester College take over Manchester Libraries Instagram account in this online exhibition of work […]

  • In Praise of Blandness

    First Floor Exhibition Hall

    An exhibition of works by Manchester based photographer, Robert John Watson. Here's what Robert says about the exhbition: 'In Praise Of Blandness is in no way mundane. I see the […]

  • Windrush Generations Manchester Voices Exhibition

    Archives+ Ground Floor

    Windrush Generations Manchester Voices is a digital exhibition, on the ground floor of Central Library in Archives+, that focuses on the personal histories and stories of 1st, 2nd and 3rd […]

  • 75 Memorial Flames Exhibition

    First Floor

    A new Holocaust Memorial Day exhibition at Manchester Central Library.  Here's more information about the exhibition from the organisers. Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation […]

  • Reds & K 1000 – Exhibition

    First Floor Display Cases

    ‘Reds’ Andrew Redmond met documentary photographer Karin Albinsson after completing a prison sentence. When ‘Reds’ told Karin of the 1,000 photos he had taken and lost six years ago, this […]

  • Featured

    Manchester Hip Hop Archive Exhibition

    First Floor Exhibition Hall

    Spotlighting the impact of the genre on the region’s community with a free exhibition of Hip Hop memorabilia and materials from the 1980s to present day, marking over 40 years […]

  • I Love You Too

    Wolfson Reading Room

    Kemang Wa Lehulere collaborates with 11 Manchester writers and over 100 residents of the city to create a surprising collection of love letters – a new book for Central Library […]