People's History Museum in Manchester is a unique museum that displays the social life of the working class in Britain. Over the years, this museum has emerged as a popular tourist site of Manchester and is located along the 103 Princess street. Many travelers from all over the world comes to Manchester to visit this unique museum.
People's History Museum of Manchester is designated as the national museum by the MLA or Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. It houses valuable study materials, conservation and collection that relates to the social history of Britain's working class. This museum was also known as Pump House People's History Museum and National Museum of Labor History. The name People's History Museum was given in the year 2001.The collection of People's History Museum includes archives of the Labor Party and Communist Party of Great Britain, which were transferred in the museum in 1990 and 1993
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respectively, a collection of 400 banners of different trade unions as well as political banners. The museum features 1821 Liverpool Tinplate Workers banner, considered as the oldest banner in the world. Other exhibits of this museum are collection of the Employment Department from the Employment Services of the Government, Professional Footballers' Association's football collections and Manchester Unity's Oddfellows Friendly Society Collections.
The opening hour of People's History Museum is between 11 am to 4.30 pm from Tuesday to Sunday. On Fridays no admission fee is charged from visitors and on other days nearly $ 1.90 (pound 1) is charged from travelers. Admission is free for children, students and seniors.
A visit to People's History Museum will provide an interesting display of the struggles of Britain's working class.
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