Experts' Choice Award Greater Manchester Police Museum
What the experts agree on
This hidden gem occupies an authentic Victorian police station in Manchester's Northern Quarter, offering visitors genuine prison cells and fascinating crime history guided by knowledgeable volunteers who bring 19th-century policing vividly to life.
“In what was once a genuine Victorian police station, you really do get a feel for what it must have been like to be on either side of the law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”
– Time Out
Lonely Planet "One of the city's best-kept secrets is this superb museum housed within a former Victorian police station." Full review
U.S. News & World Report8.0
"Traces the history of policing in the Victorian era...the volunteer tour guides are founts of knowledge, filling out the museum experience much more with their accounts of crime from yesteryear. " Full review
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(Parents should keep in mind that the museum is not recommended for children 5 years and younger because of the nature of the exhibits, especially in the crime room.)
Atlas Obscura "This 19th century police station now puts the history of the Manchester City Police on display. " Full review
Lonely Planet "For a more harrowing experience, try entering the 19th-century prison cells at the fascinating Greater Manchester Police Museum"
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Lonely Planet "Getting a little quirkier, the Greater Manchester Police Museum is housed within a former Victorian police station in the Northern Quarter"
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