The Manx Museum

Opened in 1922, on the site of the old Noble's Hospital, the award-winning Manx Museum is the home of Manx National Heritage and includes our National Art Gallery.

Exhibits span 10,000 years of the Island's social, political and natural history, charting upheaval and unrest alongside fauna and flora. Sadly, the much-loved, but seemingly undervisited, downstairs folk gallery has been ripped out to be replaced with a TT exhibit (leading to much heated local discussion), but the main part of the Museum still provides many glimpses of our fascinating past. From Viking silver to stuffed badgers, it's packed with engaging and entertaining displays and artifacts.  

The excellent onsite café, the Bay Room, is temprarily closed, but we hope it's soon to re-open.

Photo courtesy of Sean Kelly

Access

There are three disability parking spaces immediately opposite the museum's entrance. Inside there are lifts to avoid using stairs. There is a disability toilet on the ground floor.

The museum is accessible by taking the lift to level 8 of Chester Street Car Park and walking across the adjacent footbridge. Access is also available via Crellin’s Hill, although this is a (very) steep walk, and via the Garden Entrance at the bottom of Crellin’s Hill, which has steps and a steep, winding path.

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