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Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary | Astley Cheetham Art Gallery | Stalybridge | Tameside | Art | website, collections include 15th-century Italian paintings, British art of the 19th and 20th centuries, situated in Stalybridge town centre, above Stalybridge Library |
Astley Green Colliery Museum | Astley | Wigan | Mining | Former coal mine with headgear, engine house, and collection of colliery locomotives |
Bolton Museum | Bolton | Bolton | Multiple | Local history, natural history, archaeology, art, aquarium, Ancient Egypt |
Bolton Steam Museum | Bolton | Bolton | Technology | Preserved steam engines |
Bramall Hall | Bramhall | Stockport | Historic house | Timber-framed Tudor manor house, parklands |
Bury Art Museum | Bury | Bury | Multiple | Victorian paintings, contemporary art, photography and craft, local history and culture |
Bury Transport Museum | Bury | Bury | Transportation | website, located in the former goods warehouse for the East Lancashire Railway, development of transport in the North West, railway cars and equipment, historic road vehicles and buses, steam rollers |
Castlefield Gallery | Manchester | Manchester | Art | Artist-led gallery for contemporary visual art |
Central Art Gallery | Ashton-under-Lyne | Tameside | Art | website, exhibits include paintings, sculpture, installation and textiles, also Rutherford Gallery with work by local artist Harry Rutherford |
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art | Manchester | Manchester | Art | Contemporary art from Chinese artists from around the world |
Clayton Hall Living History Museum | Manchester | Manchester | Once owned by the Byron family and Sir Humphrey Chetham. The Hall is located on a mound (designated as an Ancient Monument) and reached by a stone bridge over the now dry moat. |
Dunham Massey Hall | Dunham Massey | Trafford | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Georgian house, deer park, gardens |
Elizabeth Gaskell's House | Manchester | Manchester | Historic house | Mid-19th-century home of author Elizabeth Gaskell and ties to other authors |
Ellenroad Engine House | Newhey | Rochdale | Technology | Fully working 3000-horsepower cotton mill engine with its original steam plant, other steam engines |
Fusilier Museum | Bury | Bury | Military | History and memorabilia of the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers |
Gallery of Costume | Fallowfield | Manchester | Fashion | Clothing and accessories from the 17th century to the present, located in Platt Fields Park and operated by Manchester Art Gallery |
Gallery Oldham | Oldham | Oldham | Multiple | Art, social and natural history collections alongside touring work, newly commissioned and contemporary art, international art and work produced with local communities |
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum | Rochdale | Rochdale | Firefighting | website, full-size fire appliances, equipment, uniforms, models, photographs, medals and insignia, memorabilia |
Greater Manchester Police Museum | Manchester | Manchester | Law enforcement | Victorian police station and cells, magistrate's court, historic police equipment and uniforms, vehicles, forgery and forensic science |
Haigh Hall | Wigan | Wigan | Historic house | Mid 19th-century country house open for tours |
Hall i' th' Wood | Bolton | Bolton | Historic house | Early 16th-century timber-framed manor house, open by appointment and on special days |
Hat Works | Stockport | Stockport | Industry | Hat-making industry, hats and headgear |
Heaton Hall | Manchester | Manchester | Historic house | 18th-century period country house, located in Heaton Park and operated by Manchester Art Gallery |
Heaton Park Tramway | Manchester | Manchester | Railway | Restored trams, located in Heaton Park |
HOME | Manchester | Manchester | Art | International centre for contemporary visual arts and film |
Horwich Heritage Centre | Horwich | Bolton | Local | website, local history, culture, industry, transportation |
Imperial War Museum North | Trafford Park | Trafford | Military | 20th- and 21st-century conflicts involving British and Commonwealth citizens |
John Rylands Library | Manchester | Manchester | Library | Exhibits of art, history, literature from its collections |
The Lowry | Salford Quays | Salford | Art | Arts centre with exhibit galleries for modern and contemporary art, photography and design, and works by LS Lowry |
Manchester Art Gallery | Manchester | Manchester | Art | Collection includes English, Dutch, French and Italian historic paintings, modern and contemporary art, works relating to Manchester, textiles, metalwork, toys, silverware and furniture |
Manchester Jewish Museum | Cheetham Hill | Manchester | Ethnic | Located in a former late 19th-century Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, history and culture of Manchester's Jewish community |
Manchester Museum | Manchester | Manchester | Multiple | Operated by the University of Manchester, natural history including dinosaurs and geology, Ancient Egypt, money, archery, archaeology, anthropology, city's history and culture, and vivarium |
Manchester United Museum | Old Trafford | Trafford | Sports | History and memorabilia of Manchester United F.C., located at Old Trafford stadium |
Mossley Industrial Heritage Centre | Mossley | Tameside | Industry | website, local cotton industry, houses in a former cotton-spinning mill |
Museum of Science and Industry | Manchester | Manchester | Multiple | Science, technology, industry, transportation and the city's contributions |
Museum of the Manchester Regiment | Ashton-under-Lyne | Tameside | Military | website, history and artifacts of the Manchester Regiment |
Museum of Transport | Cheetham Hill | Manchester | Transportation | Buses and public transportation history |
Museum of Wigan Life | Wigan | Wigan | Local | Formerly the History Shop and Wigan Public Library. Includes exhibits on local history, culture, archaeology and industry. |
National Football Museum | Manchester | Manchester | Sports | Located in the Urbis building, association football history and memorabilia |
Ordsall Hall | Ordsall | Salford | Historic house | Former stately home dating back to the 15th century, includes stained and painted glass, local history exhibits |
Pankhurst Centre | Chorlton-on-Medlock | Manchester | Historic house | Home of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and family, history of the movement |
Park Bridge Heritage Centre | Park Bridge | Tameside | Local | Local history, ironworks, natural history |
People's History Museum | Spinningfields | Manchester | History | History of working people in the United Kingdom and labour relations |
Portland Basin Museum | Ashton-under-Lyne | Tameside | Local | Local history, industry, trades, 1920s street with shops, period rooms, historic machines |
Rochdale Pioneers Museum | Rochdale | Rochdale | History | Historic store and history of the early consumers' cooperative |
Saddleworth Museum | Saddleworth | Oldham | Local | Local history, trades, textile industry, canals, railroads, transportation, culture, exhibits of local and regional contemporary art |
Salford Museum and Art Gallery | Salford | Salford | Multiple | Local history, Victorian art, replica Victorian street with shops, contemporary art and photography exhibits |
Smithills Hall | Bolton | Bolton | Historic house | Family home dating back to the 14th century, reflects medieval, Tudor and Victorian periods |
Staircase House | Stockport | Stockport | Historic house | 15th-century medieval house with rooms from different centuries |
Stockport Art Gallery | Stockport | Stockport | Art | website |
Stockport Air Raid Shelters | Stockport | Stockport | Military | Almost 1 mile of underground air-raid shelters used during World War II |
Stockport Museum | Stockport | Stockport | Local | website, local history, archaeology, industry, transportation, culture |
Touchstones Rochdale | Rochdale | Rochdale | Multiple | Art, local history, culture |
Trencherfield Mill Steam Engine | Wigan | Wigan | Technology | Massive 2,500 horse power working steam engine for the textile mill, open on Sundays |
Whitworth Art Gallery | Moss Side | Manchester | Art | Collections include modern art, watercolours, sculpture, wallpaper and textiles, part of the University of Manchester |
Wythenshawe Hall | Northenden | Manchester | Historic house | 16th-century Tudor house reflecting four centuries of use |
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1. ^http://www.ashton-under-lyne.com/places/setantii.htm Ashton-under-Lyne.com, accessed 11 October 2012
2. ^{{cite web|title=Emptying Vernon Park Museum and other stories|url=http://hlfmuseumstrainee.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/emptying-vernon-park-museum-and-other-stories/|publisher=Museum Musings|accessdate=27 October 2013}}