Top places to visit over summer ....part 1.

Ian Brown famously said that "Manchester has everything except a beach" so if you are an art student holidaying at home this summer, try ticking off as many of these as you can & adding them to your sketchbook . All research is good research !

1. The Manchester International Festival 2015 is happening between 2- 19th July with premiered works from far & wide. Check out the festival tent in Albert square for fab food & celeb spotting   http://www.mif.co.uk/events/

2. John Rylands Library - Manchester's own mini Hogwarts. Beautiful architecture , carvings & mysterious corners
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands FREE

3. The Royal Exchange Theatre - a 7 sided space capsule theatre in the round within the old Exchange building. Free to enter the building istelf - visitors can walk around the outside of the theatre & stop for coffee, lunch or gaze at the pink & gold columns, http://www.royalexchange.co.uk FREE


4. Step back in time to see the Eygptology & Dinosaurs sections at Manchester Museum http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/. FREE

5. The People's Museum - see how Manchester shaped the world through graphics of protest & politics http://www.phm.org.uk/whatson/main-gallery-one-4/

6. Experience the peace of the Jewish Museum on Cheetham Hill and seee the beautiful stained glass & the Torah scrolls. They have a thought provoking exhibition of the Holocaust too. http://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/whats-on