The Youth Board of the Manchester Museum is currently working on a photographic exhibition as part of the Our City: connections and collections project.  The aim of the project is to show young people’s perspectives of Manchester and also to possibly change other people’s views of the city.  Members of the Board spent a month going round the city taking photographs of both iconic parts of Manchester and their own personal views on the city.

As part of the Our City: connections and collections project the Manchester Museum is working with Abbey Hey Primary School to develop an exhibition that will be on display in Gorton Library in May 2008.  The exhibition of Museum objects and art work of puplils from Abbey Hey Primary will explore the connections between the people of Gorton, Manchester’s history and the Museum collection.   

The Manchester Museum is creating a new gallery that will explore the history of the museum collection and its connections to local communities.  We have started making connections with objects in the Museum but would like to hear your stories.