Anything goo stuff to do in Manchester? I will be going there to attend an HR conference but will be only for one day. Any other things to check out in Manchester while there? Besides visiting Old Trafford, although I'm not a huge football fan.
Visit the Manchester Museum of Science & Industry on the west side of town. They have a working replica of a locomotive built in 1830 for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the world's first modern railway (the museum building is its former terminus). They have other neat things, too.
John Rylands Library, Karl Marx worked there. Might be full of tryhard students revising there though.
Imperial War Museum North is very good; the People's Museum is good too, but takes a very left-wing view (although seeing as it's on the site of the Peterloo Massacre...)
The Manchester Art Gallery has some nice local boy Lowry paintings. The Science & Industry is pretty cool too, if you're into machines and engineering.
There are free buses all through the centre of the city, so no excuse not to get around.
Been years since I lived there but there's a good food market in town in the evenings if I remember correctly.
Get a curry on the curry mile, too. Very competitive, very tasty. Although the locals looked a lot more miserable last time I went than from what I remember as a student.
Get out in the evenings - lots of cool pubs.
