Exhibitions, Literature Live

Manchester School of Architecture Degree Show

6 - 19 June 2026
Join us for the annual summer degree show of work from students of Manchester School of Architecture. An extensive display of student models, printed and screen based design work. Open 9-5 Monday to Friday.

New Exhibition - Curious Universe: Cosmic Titans

1 May - 20 September 2026
Part of our new, Curious Universe series, Cosmic Titans is a touring exhibition where art and science combine to untap our imagination and explore the quantum universe!

Stories from Between Places: Myanmar life in Mae Sot and Sheffield

17:00 - 19:30 15 June 2026
Stories from Between Places is an exhibition of powerful, first?hand photographs and stories of migration, learning and belonging from the Thai borderlands to Sheffield's streets, created…

Exhibition: Irrepressible - celebrating 20 years of the Morgan Centre

1 July - 2 September 2026
For the last 20 years, the Morgan Centre has explored the relational nature of social life as it is experienced in the everyday. Fuelled by unruly imagination and curiosity, and an…

Colours in the Field

14:00 - 16:00 17 July 2026
Join us for a new exhibition unearthing the colonial legacies of India's cotton industry and their connections to Manchester. Combining archival research and natural pigments screen-printed…

Respectful Disposal Exhibition

12:00 25 - 17:00 26 July 2026
Donated bodies, imported into the UK for biomedical research, ultimately reach industrial incinerators - but who performs this disposal work, and how? Building on Mark Shtanov's PhD…

Exhibition: Housing with care and creativity with older LGBTQ people

2 - 30 September 2026
This exhibition is the outcome of a 10-month research project which aimed to better understand older LGBTQ people’s experiences of housing with care. The project observed the process…

Schinkel in Manchester 1826-2026

7 September 2026 - 2 January 2027
An exhibition of architectural models by students from the Manchester School of Architecture of early nineteenth buildings in Berlin and Manchester created to celebrate the bicentenary…

UNMASKED - Mental Health Photography Exhibition

18:00 - 21:00 10 September 2026
UNMASKED is a powerful photography exhibition exploring mental health through lived experience, personal stories, and creative expression. Coinciding with World Suicide Prevention…

AiM: IN PROGRESS - Exhibition and Launch event - London Design Festival

09:00 14 - 17:00 18 September 2026
Presented as part of the Architects Index of Modelmaking project, AiM: IN PROGRESS is the first in a three-year series of architectural exhibitions exploring how physical models can…

Exhibition launch event: 'grasp, grasp' by Sian Fan

18:30 - 20:15 30 September 2026
The University of Manchester and the Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities Research Project Team invite you to a launch event for ‘grasp, grasp’ by Sian Fan, with an artist…

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