Manchester may be regarded as the city with bad food and fashion sense, but there are actually a lot of great things to see in UK’s third largest city. In fact, you won’t run out of free things to do in Manchester. Make sure not to miss a single thing on the list below.
1. Drop by the National Football Museum
If you love football and you like Diego Maradona or Geoff Hurst so much, make sure to visit this place. This museum is filled with jerseys, shoes, trophies, and artworks.
2. Appreciate art at the Manchester City Art Museum
Check out the largest collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the world, paintings you though you can only see in books. Manchester City Art Museum houses over 13,000 pieces on classic exhibits alone, and over 21,000 pieces in costume exhibit. The 17th-century codpiece is also something to see!
3. Visit The John Rylands Library
Fall in love with this rustic library, although barely a hundred years old, that is full of stained glass, turrets and a billion of books.
4. Check out vintage vinyl at Kingbee Records
Listen to your favorite old-school songs in this old-school record shop that features a lot of vintage CDs and vinyl. This is the favorite shop of the DJs, record collectors, etc.
5. Stroll through Levenshulme Market
The University of Manschester is everyone’s destination on Saturdays, where Levenshulme Market takes place, featuring a myriad of things from crafts, clothes to plants and food. This weekly Saturday market will always surprise with interesting things.
6. Have a romantic walk along the Rochdale Canal
Invite your loved one for a romantic stroll starting from Castlefield towards Ancoats. You’ll be in for a treat of the view of a bygone era in Manchester. Finish off with finding a perfect spot to have a picnic or just simply sit and watch the water run by.
7. Explore Chinatown
Satisfy your Chinese cravings in Europe’s largest Chinatown, filled with maneki cats, incense, dim sum and Chinese fans. Go window shopping or just simply stroll and people watch.
8. Visit the Whitworth Art Gallery
Named as the 2015 Museum of the Year from the Art Fund, Whitworth Art Gallery was once filled with second-rate pieces but went through a huge revamp and now houses stunning pieces.
9. Get educated at the Museum of Science & Industry
Discover how Manchester has contributed to the development of communications, air & soace, railways system, power generation and more.
10. Exercise your brain at MadLab
Join the free weekly workshops and witness their weekly events that aims to help imprve each one’s skills on writing, designing, coding, developing, and more.
11. Watch the galaxy the Godlee Observatory
Be a guest and see the stars through the incredible double telescope for free. Just hope for a fine British weather.
12. See a lunchtime concert at Chetham’s
Catch Chetham’s free lunchtime concerts from 1:3pm to 2:10pm every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
