This museum has free entry, but there is a donation box. The museum was well laid out, interesting and informative. Well worth a visit if you are in the area.

What I liked most is that you can learn about things from different sciences: biology (zoology, botany, evolutionary biology) (+ how nature influenced art etc.), geology, astronomy, history, numismatic. It is an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary museum. The Fossils Gallery is on the top of my list, followed by the Meteorites.

Very disappointed with this museum. Mainly consisted of stuffed animals on every floor and every other exhibit plus lots of microscope slides that may be of interest historically or to students who use them but pretty boring to the rest of us. Lighting was terrible very dark and gloomy coupled with dirty glass inside and out and dark red or... More

We travelled from Wirral / cheshire one day to visit. Our visit lasted an hour and half. I honestly felt we had seen it all. I have to compare it to what I know in Liverpool and overall it was disappointing. A few interesting things there tho. It was rather busy so we struggled to get up close to some... More

This museum has a lot of interesting collections of birds, mammals, insects, butterflies, and even some alive reptiles! I think the most impressive item is T-Rex they have on the ground floor (fortunately it is not alive!). They also have some mummies, and old history objects. I am not a big expert about natural history, but I loved this museum.... More

Very good museum. From everything they have some very remarkable selection. Well set up. Well explained. I was lucky to visited this place for a wedding. Very special!, will return

This is a surprizingly large museum of natural history with great exhibits. A terrific afternoon for kids and adults alike. You would never guess from the outside just how big it is, with a nice cafe bar to rest a while afterwards.

This is a nice and compact museum where you can spend anything from an hour to a half day. The place is essentially a natural history museum and I think it was previously known by that name, as the name implies that it is about the city of Manchester. You get all the usuals of a Natural history museum, skeletons... More

The lighting is bad, the captions are no where near the artefacts - more like hide and seek, mixed up exhibits, easy to get lost, closed areas, not signposted, expensive cafe. Overall it's small, unexciting and a let down for the City museum! The questionnaire carried out by an apologetic lady took longer than our overall visit. I wouldn't recommend... More