The Cornerhouse
70 Oxford Street M1 5NH
(0161) 228 2463
(Cafe) every day 11:00-8:30
(Galleries) Tue-Sat 11:00-6:00 and Sun 2:00-6:00
Free Admission.
Manchester's center for international cinema and the visual arts. Its three galleries have changing exhibitions of contemporary art, sculpture and photography. Three cinemas, bookshops, bar, cafe and cappuccino bar.
CUBE - Center for the Understanding of the Built Environment
113-115 Portland Street M1 6FB
(0161) 237 5525
Tues-Fri 12:00-5:30, Sat-Sun 12-4:00
Free Admission.
Manchester's award winning center for architecture and design. CUBE hosts a variety of exhibitions and events of interest to both specialist and popular audiences.
The Gallery
Portland Street;
(0161) 237 3551
Specializes in work by Northern artists, mixed and solo exhibitions.
The Lowry
Pier 8, Salford Quays, M5 2BH; 0161 876 2000
9:30 to Midnight
Admission Free for the Lowry Collection.
MMU Contemporary Art Galleries
Faculty of Art & Design, Grosvenor Building
Cavendish Street, M15 5BR; (0161) 247 1708
Mon-Fri 10:00- 4:00
Free Admission.
There are three galleries at the Manchester Metropolitan University: the John Holden, the Righton, and the Aytoun Gallery, each showing a range of visual art and design reflecting a range of the faculty's academic programs.
Royal Northern College of Music
124 Oxford Road M13 9RB
Everyday from 10:00-Midnight
Free Admission.
Occasional art and sculpture exhibitions, sometimes with a musical connection.
Salford Art Gallery
Peel Park, The Crescent, Salford
(0161) 736 2649
Frequent buses from the city center stop outside the museum, while trains from Oxford Road station and Metrolink trams from St Peter's Square take just seven minutes to reach Salford Crescent, a couple of minutes' walk from the museum.
Mon-Fri 10:00- 4:45; Sat and Sun 1-5
Free Admission.
No artist is more closely linked with an English city than Lowry is with Manchester, now home to the most extensive Lowry exhibition in the country.
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
In Peel Park next to the university.
Mon-Fri 10-4.45; Sun 1-5
Free Admission.
Illustrates Lowrey's early views on the desolation and sadness of Manchester's mill workers and his changing outlook in later life when he repeated earlier paintings changing the greys and browns to lively reds and pinks. Lowry also expanded his repertoire as he grew older, capturing mountain scenes and seascapes in broad sweeps of his brush, and painting full-bodied realistic portraits which are far less known than his matchstick crowds. In addition to the Lowry exhibition, the museum has an impressive Victorian art collection, a gallery for temporary exhibitions and, on the ground floor, and an authentic reproduction of a nineteenth-century street.
The Whitworth Art Gallery
The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M15 6ER
(0161) 275 7450
Mon-Sat 10:00-5:00; Sun 2:00-5:00
Free Admission.
Home to internationally famous collections of British watercolors, textiles and wallpapers as well as an impressive range of modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. Temporary exhibitions throughout the year. The recently opened Mezzanine Court provides a new venue for sculpture.
Tib Lane Gallery
Tib Lane
(0161) 834 6928
Exhibitions reflect what is happening in the city and inform about the various communities which call Manchester home.
Manchester Stadium
Manchester Stadium has been continueing to grow since 1880. They have information for visitors about parking and public transportation.
