10 editions in, and Manchester Histories Festival is still finding stories that official records have skirted over.

With a miniature steam railway, working engines and a percussion group inspired by industry, the Science and Industry Museum brings play with a point.

Saul Hay celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhibition that gives 100 artists just 10 centimetres to work with.

Lowry presents an exhibition on group communion, featuring artists who capture the energy and anticipation of live audiences.

Creativity, making and innovation have long shaped Salford. City of Making traces that legacy from industrial roots to today’s artists, designers and creative technologists.

Fans of the world-famous and still-anonymous street artist Banksy, gather round. Spring 2026 sees The Mystery of Banksy – A Genius Mind take over Depot Mayfield.

Out Here at Castlefield Gallery shifts environmental questions out of the abstract and back into the natural materials beneath our feet.

For the four artists in texture’s reopening show, redaction is not absence but method – a way of exploring things that have been officially ignored, coded, buried or suppressed.

Many LGBTQ+ people who lived through criminalisation are still here, and photographer Steve Reeves is recording their stories.

Scottish artist Rachel Maclean presents a major new exhibition that invites us to question the technologies that are watching, learning, and quietly getting better at being us.

Toby Pfeil and Claudia Cox transform their 2023 computer-game opera into a new installation that invites you to step inside a world between life and death.

The Peak District is one of the most walked, photographed and painted landscapes in England. Common Ground is interested in what lies beneath it.