The Museums Association has announced the full programme for its Annual Conference & Exhibition, which takes place this year in Manchester, from 4-6 October 2010 at Manchester Central Convention Complex. It is Europe’s biggest gathering of its kind for museum and gallery professionals.

Manchester boasts some of the UK’s best museums and galleries outside the capital. The conference will include study tours of many of these, and major evening events at the newly-reopened Peoples’ History Museum and the new extension to the Museum of Science and Industry.

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Manchester Museum has been in its present Victorian building near the city centre since 1888. Part of the University of Manchester, it employs 94 members of staff. Its environmental control systems are relatively efficient, following a major refurbishment project between 1999 and 2003, but it is improving them in line with its objective to ‘put sustainability at the heart of its operations… and to contribute to the sustainability agenda through its own practice.’

NEW GALLERY OPENS AT THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM EXPLORING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MANCHESTER, ITS PEOPLE AND THE MUSEUMS COLLECTION

The Manchester Gallery reveals the amazing stories behind some of The Manchester Museum’s most fascinating objects. Uncover the connections between the city, its people and the Museum in this new gallery opening on 4 April.