People'S History Museum

Planning FREE #McrFamilyFun today? Find all SIX museum bees, get cutting and sticking to create something at the #Represent! craft table 10am-5pm or book onto today's every Wednesday workshop and Make Your Mark from 2-4pm https://bit.ly/2mFc8bk #kids #family #bee #trail

To mark the 199th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, come along and meet activists who champion today’s ideas worth fighting for. Meet campaign groups from across Greater Manchester and find out where and when they hold their meetings and protests, and what campaigns you can get involved in:
Disabled People Against Cuts Girl Gang Manchester... Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People Greater Manchester Housing Action Greater Manchester Poverty Action Peterloo Memorial Campaign RECLAIM These Walls Must Fall The Proud Trust We Shall Overcome Women’s March Manchester Youth Greater Manchester Combined Authority
This event will be presented in partnership with Manchester Histories, as a chance to find out how you can also shape the bicentenary commemorations of the Peterloo Massacre in 2019.
Suitable for adults and young people.
Treat yourself to 10% off in The Left Bank cafe bar and 10% off in the museum shop when you attend an event at the People’s History Museum
Part of our year long programme exploring the past, present and future of representation, marking 100 years since the passing of the Representation of the People Act (1918) and since all men and some women won the right to vote in Britain.
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Delighted to share a sneak peek of Mike Leigh's Peterloo, research for which was done using PHM's collections and archives. Released on 9 November 2018. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mhSv5-frnxk

Come along to see our stall at Official Manchester Mega Mela this afternoon where you make create your design to REPRESENT you and your interests, and we will add it to the banner.

She's here! Delighted to welcome the beautiful Sylvia, part of Bee in the City MCR Big Bee trail, sponsored by UNISON Manchester and Unison North West Office, Arena Point, Manchester, designed by Sneaky Raccoon - The Work of Anna Mullin. She accompanies five Little Bees buzzing around PHM - can you find them all? https://beeinthecitymcr.co.uk/

Another reason to look forward to school summer holiday: Make Your Mark creative workshops every Wed 1-3pm during the holiday (25 Jul - 29 Aug)! Be inspired by our current exhibition #Represent & find new ways to use your voice & think about the positive change we can make in the world!

This Thursday, join us for our Radical Late... https://phm.org.uk/events/radical-lates/< br>

Coming this Thursday for July’s Radical Late... #Represent

The Past, Present & Future of Protest: 2019 open call for community exhibitions! https://phmmcr.wordpress.com/…/the-past -present-future-of-…/

Good morning! We're delighted to be shortlisted for a 'Collaboration' award for #NationalDemocracyWeek which starts TODAY. #TalkDemocracy As the national museum of democracy, we're so proud that our collaboration work for 'Never Going Underground' and our current Represent! programme are being recognised in the first event #NDW18 awards! 💜

Represent! Voices 100 Years On reflects on those who campaigned for better representation, and also asks how far have we really come in 100 years? For example when female politicians’ appearance is focused on, over their policies #legsit #Brexit #Represent!

OPEN CALL FOR COMMUNITY EXHIBITIONS! Want to display or produce an exhibition at PHM in 2019? Get involved! We're particularly interested in submissions relating to protest: past, present and future Deadline's Sun 12 Aug #exhibition #protest #Peterloo RT

How would you feel if you had no right to vote, or had to remain anonymous due to your #immigration status? This display is made up of Safety4Sisters North West shoes and words. If you were to step into their shoes, you might understand their struggles #ideasworthempathy #Represent!

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a Programme Assistant AND a Collections Officer to join the PHM team! https://bit.ly/2t9HevI #museumjobs #museum #job #programme #collection #ideasworthjoining

Teachers! Does your class want to learn about a local Suffragette through an interactive performance? Or, would your class like to creatively explore past & current topics of Representation? Then join us for a FREE visit! PHM is offering 15 FREE visits for schools that have not visited the museum before. Offer available until 3 Feb 2019. Email: learning@phm.org.uk

Wondering what feminist events are on for the rest of the year? Consider this your complete guide: https://buff.ly/2FzbrM6 (featuring People's History Museum 💜)

Have you seen the latest #BothSidesNow opportunity? Brighter Sound are looking for women from Greater Manchester 🐝 to create new work in response to our #Represent! exhibition which asks ‘How far have we really come in 100 years?’ Deadline Mon 25 Jun:- http://ow.ly/Wmk530kwIa8

Fantastic Processions 2018 celebrations yesterday of 100 years since women first won the vote. Didn’t have time to make your own banner? Check out some stunning originals at PHM, including the Manchester suffragette banner - now on display in our new exhibition Represent! Voices 100 Years On. https://phm.org.uk/exhibitio…/represent -voices-100-years-on/

TONIGHT! Emmeline Pankhurst: Making Of A Militant on BBC North West at 7.30pm! Featuring PHM's Helen Antrobus & the #Manchester #WSPU #suffragette #banner! #mustsee #Represent! #Vote100 #ideasworthfightingfor

managed to get a quick look around before closing....definitely will return.

Well worth a visit. Plenty of interesting exhibits covering a huge range of topics. People need to learn about how we achieved democracy and continue to try and improve our society, and this museum does that in a very accessible way. Friendly staff, lovely cafe.

Visited on tuesday to celebrate the 109years since women vote, faboulous museum staff very friendly really looking to come back to here helen pankhurst talk

Very interesting place..... highly recommend for a visit.... we will be back and i put 47p in the donation box �

The museum tells incredible stories really well, and encourages you to get hands-on with the interactive elements :-)

Spent 4 hrs here on Sunday. We initially went to see the LGBT exhibition which was brilliant. Lots of history, videos to watch and interesting history about LGBT activists and artists.



I also enjoyed the section on social workers and how they felt about their jobs. It was interesting to see how the longer they'd been in the job the more they felt worn out & innafective due to red tape when their main objective was to protect a child a work with families for a better result.



The social history of the Labour movement was also extremely interesting especially in today's climate of austerity. It sometimes appears very little has changed between those that have and those that don't over the last 100 years.



My only criticism is that there were some great sayings and statements up around the building which would have made great posters. It's a shame they couldn't have been printed off to buy in the museum shop.



I would really recommend a visit to this great museum.

So much to see and quite interactive to keep younger ones engaged too. Great for free entry with nice cafe.

Really interesting social and political history from the industrial revolution to 20th century. A must for the socially aware and a great education for others.

My first visit to Manchester, let alone this museum. A very interesting, well laid out museum. I learnt a lot, as did my 6 & 8 year olds. I'll be back.

I absolutely love this place. It's my favourite Museum. Not only, because of it's theme, but because of the way they show it and teach history. It's interactive, it's playful, it's simply wonderful. Very important questions are raised and explained in a simple, smart, engaging and attractive way.

I also love it's coffee shop!



PS. It's really great for children also! I visited it with my 3-4 year old sun and he was entertained, despite his age and was even able to understand some parts of history. Of course, it's still a museum and he's still very young, therefore easily bored, so we didn't see every bit and acknowledged every bit of information of the museum (this time). Still, he endured the hole visit with interest and liked playing and interacting with the exhibition materials while visiting.

Had a great time, and will pay another visit in the not too distant future.

Great museum - well presented displays coursing the social history from the 1700s onwards. Some fantastic items in their collection including the world's oldest trade union banner, and wide range of LGBT+ banners and badges too. Well worth an hour or two of your day!

Great insight into the human struggle for equal rights for all and better working conditions

Great exhibition on at the moment, I took my son and we enjoyed it I was impressed, There was a lot of actual literary material, A letter signed by Lord Kitchener and the notes of Kier Hardie. The exhibition is educational and I reccomend it for families as it has so much on the History of Manchester, the Industrial Revolution, The suffrage and the chartists. Look forward to going again.

Being a self-identfied gay man who, ever since realising my sexuality during my teen years, has had an interest in understanding the community and subculture which I am a part of, the "Not Going Underground" and "Queer Noise" exhibition exceeded expectations!



They were engaging, informative, encouraged questions to be asked and to seek for answers for these questions, and, most importantly, they were relevant to contemporary society, as well as the local gay scene of Manchester. The staff were super friendly, and, the selection of merchandise related to the exhbitions was phenomenal (which if I had the money I would have bought more from the shop!)



A massive cudous to the curators, researchers, staff members, and volunteers who made these exhibitions possible! Continue doing the great work that you do! ����

Absolutely thought it was great, was 1st time I've been and took both my children aged 9 and 6 and both really enjoyed it.

Loads to do and staff were brilliant. On 1st entering the guy on the desk was really helpful and gave us a treasure hunt which was ace.

Both children entertained themselves making hats in the craft corner before the hunt. The guy on the museum floor was really good and kept on finding us as my daughter kept leaving stuff.

We found it brilliant and loads of interactive stuff, trying on clothes, playing shop, using old phones, sitting in the lounge listening to Churchill resigning on the radio. Brilliant day out and highly recommend. Oh and to top it all kids were given choice of really good prizes out of bucket and as was last day of hunt got to choose 2 goodies each. Brill staff brill place �

A museum we should all visit to remember the struggles of democracy and to remind us of how hard it was for people to gain the rights we take for granted today.

A fascinating and interesting record of our recent and not so recent history. It’s amazing to see what’s been achieved in the last 50 years, never mind the last � years.

A fantastic venue for the histories of the working class. I enjoyed the poster and banner collections and found the interactive exhibits worthy too. School tours were engaged with reenactors doing scenes. I bought a biography of Edward Carpenter from the bookstore and had a tasty lunch in the cafe. So inspiring and satisfying to see the voiceless given a stage comparable to the ruling class.

managed to get a quick look around before closing....definitely will return.

Well worth a visit. Plenty of interesting exhibits covering a huge range of topics. People need to learn about how we achieved democracy and continue to try and improve our society, and this museum does that in a very accessible way. Friendly staff, lovely cafe.

Visited on tuesday to celebrate the 109years since women vote, faboulous museum staff very friendly really looking to come back to here helen pankhurst talk

Very interesting place..... highly recommend for a visit.... we will be back and i put 47p in the donation box �

The museum tells incredible stories really well, and encourages you to get hands-on with the interactive elements :-)

Spent 4 hrs here on Sunday. We initially went to see the LGBT exhibition which was brilliant. Lots of history, videos to watch and interesting history about LGBT activists and artists.



I also enjoyed the section on social workers and how they felt about their jobs. It was interesting to see how the longer they'd been in the job the more they felt worn out & innafective due to red tape when their main objective was to protect a child a work with families for a better result.



The social history of the Labour movement was also extremely interesting especially in today's climate of austerity. It sometimes appears very little has changed between those that have and those that don't over the last 100 years.



My only criticism is that there were some great sayings and statements up around the building which would have made great posters. It's a shame they couldn't have been printed off to buy in the museum shop.



I would really recommend a visit to this great museum.

So much to see and quite interactive to keep younger ones engaged too. Great for free entry with nice cafe.

Really interesting social and political history from the industrial revolution to 20th century. A must for the socially aware and a great education for others.

My first visit to Manchester, let alone this museum. A very interesting, well laid out museum. I learnt a lot, as did my 6 & 8 year olds. I'll be back.

I absolutely love this place. It's my favourite Museum. Not only, because of it's theme, but because of the way they show it and teach history. It's interactive, it's playful, it's simply wonderful. Very important questions are raised and explained in a simple, smart, engaging and attractive way.

I also love it's coffee shop!



PS. It's really great for children also! I visited it with my 3-4 year old sun and he was entertained, despite his age and was even able to understand some parts of history. Of course, it's still a museum and he's still very young, therefore easily bored, so we didn't see every bit and acknowledged every bit of information of the museum (this time). Still, he endured the hole visit with interest and liked playing and interacting with the exhibition materials while visiting.

Had a great time, and will pay another visit in the not too distant future.

Great museum - well presented displays coursing the social history from the 1700s onwards. Some fantastic items in their collection including the world's oldest trade union banner, and wide range of LGBT+ banners and badges too. Well worth an hour or two of your day!

Great insight into the human struggle for equal rights for all and better working conditions

Great exhibition on at the moment, I took my son and we enjoyed it I was impressed, There was a lot of actual literary material, A letter signed by Lord Kitchener and the notes of Kier Hardie. The exhibition is educational and I reccomend it for families as it has so much on the History of Manchester, the Industrial Revolution, The suffrage and the chartists. Look forward to going again.

Being a self-identfied gay man who, ever since realising my sexuality during my teen years, has had an interest in understanding the community and subculture which I am a part of, the "Not Going Underground" and "Queer Noise" exhibition exceeded expectations!



They were engaging, informative, encouraged questions to be asked and to seek for answers for these questions, and, most importantly, they were relevant to contemporary society, as well as the local gay scene of Manchester. The staff were super friendly, and, the selection of merchandise related to the exhbitions was phenomenal (which if I had the money I would have bought more from the shop!)



A massive cudous to the curators, researchers, staff members, and volunteers who made these exhibitions possible! Continue doing the great work that you do! ����

Absolutely thought it was great, was 1st time I've been and took both my children aged 9 and 6 and both really enjoyed it.

Loads to do and staff were brilliant. On 1st entering the guy on the desk was really helpful and gave us a treasure hunt which was ace.

Both children entertained themselves making hats in the craft corner before the hunt. The guy on the museum floor was really good and kept on finding us as my daughter kept leaving stuff.

We found it brilliant and loads of interactive stuff, trying on clothes, playing shop, using old phones, sitting in the lounge listening to Churchill resigning on the radio. Brilliant day out and highly recommend. Oh and to top it all kids were given choice of really good prizes out of bucket and as was last day of hunt got to choose 2 goodies each. Brill staff brill place �

A museum we should all visit to remember the struggles of democracy and to remind us of how hard it was for people to gain the rights we take for granted today.

A fascinating and interesting record of our recent and not so recent history. It’s amazing to see what’s been achieved in the last 50 years, never mind the last � years.

A fantastic venue for the histories of the working class. I enjoyed the poster and banner collections and found the interactive exhibits worthy too. School tours were engaged with reenactors doing scenes. I bought a biography of Edward Carpenter from the bookstore and had a tasty lunch in the cafe. So inspiring and satisfying to see the voiceless given a stage comparable to the ruling class.

managed to get a quick look around before closing....definitely will return.

Well worth a visit. Plenty of interesting exhibits covering a huge range of topics. People need to learn about how we achieved democracy and continue to try and improve our society, and this museum does that in a very accessible way. Friendly staff, lovely cafe.

Visited on tuesday to celebrate the 109years since women vote, faboulous museum staff very friendly really looking to come back to here helen pankhurst talk

Very interesting place..... highly recommend for a visit.... we will be back and i put 47p in the donation box �

The museum tells incredible stories really well, and encourages you to get hands-on with the interactive elements :-)

Spent 4 hrs here on Sunday. We initially went to see the LGBT exhibition which was brilliant. Lots of history, videos to watch and interesting history about LGBT activists and artists.



I also enjoyed the section on social workers and how they felt about their jobs. It was interesting to see how the longer they'd been in the job the more they felt worn out & innafective due to red tape when their main objective was to protect a child a work with families for a better result.



The social history of the Labour movement was also extremely interesting especially in today's climate of austerity. It sometimes appears very little has changed between those that have and those that don't over the last 100 years.



My only criticism is that there were some great sayings and statements up around the building which would have made great posters. It's a shame they couldn't have been printed off to buy in the museum shop.



I would really recommend a visit to this great museum.

So much to see and quite interactive to keep younger ones engaged too. Great for free entry with nice cafe.

Really interesting social and political history from the industrial revolution to 20th century. A must for the socially aware and a great education for others.

My first visit to Manchester, let alone this museum. A very interesting, well laid out museum. I learnt a lot, as did my 6 & 8 year olds. I'll be back.

I absolutely love this place. It's my favourite Museum. Not only, because of it's theme, but because of the way they show it and teach history. It's interactive, it's playful, it's simply wonderful. Very important questions are raised and explained in a simple, smart, engaging and attractive way.

I also love it's coffee shop!



PS. It's really great for children also! I visited it with my 3-4 year old sun and he was entertained, despite his age and was even able to understand some parts of history. Of course, it's still a museum and he's still very young, therefore easily bored, so we didn't see every bit and acknowledged every bit of information of the museum (this time). Still, he endured the hole visit with interest and liked playing and interacting with the exhibition materials while visiting.

Had a great time, and will pay another visit in the not too distant future.

Great museum - well presented displays coursing the social history from the 1700s onwards. Some fantastic items in their collection including the world's oldest trade union banner, and wide range of LGBT+ banners and badges too. Well worth an hour or two of your day!

Great insight into the human struggle for equal rights for all and better working conditions

Great exhibition on at the moment, I took my son and we enjoyed it I was impressed, There was a lot of actual literary material, A letter signed by Lord Kitchener and the notes of Kier Hardie. The exhibition is educational and I reccomend it for families as it has so much on the History of Manchester, the Industrial Revolution, The suffrage and the chartists. Look forward to going again.

Being a self-identfied gay man who, ever since realising my sexuality during my teen years, has had an interest in understanding the community and subculture which I am a part of, the "Not Going Underground" and "Queer Noise" exhibition exceeded expectations!



They were engaging, informative, encouraged questions to be asked and to seek for answers for these questions, and, most importantly, they were relevant to contemporary society, as well as the local gay scene of Manchester. The staff were super friendly, and, the selection of merchandise related to the exhbitions was phenomenal (which if I had the money I would have bought more from the shop!)



A massive cudous to the curators, researchers, staff members, and volunteers who made these exhibitions possible! Continue doing the great work that you do! ����

Absolutely thought it was great, was 1st time I've been and took both my children aged 9 and 6 and both really enjoyed it.

Loads to do and staff were brilliant. On 1st entering the guy on the desk was really helpful and gave us a treasure hunt which was ace.

Both children entertained themselves making hats in the craft corner before the hunt. The guy on the museum floor was really good and kept on finding us as my daughter kept leaving stuff.

We found it brilliant and loads of interactive stuff, trying on clothes, playing shop, using old phones, sitting in the lounge listening to Churchill resigning on the radio. Brilliant day out and highly recommend. Oh and to top it all kids were given choice of really good prizes out of bucket and as was last day of hunt got to choose 2 goodies each. Brill staff brill place �

A museum we should all visit to remember the struggles of democracy and to remind us of how hard it was for people to gain the rights we take for granted today.

A fascinating and interesting record of our recent and not so recent history. It’s amazing to see what’s been achieved in the last 50 years, never mind the last � years.

A fantastic venue for the histories of the working class. I enjoyed the poster and banner collections and found the interactive exhibits worthy too. School tours were engaged with reenactors doing scenes. I bought a biography of Edward Carpenter from the bookstore and had a tasty lunch in the cafe. So inspiring and satisfying to see the voiceless given a stage comparable to the ruling class.