Services and facilities
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- Explore the campus in Google Earth
- Interactive campus map
- Directions by car, train, air, bus and coach
- Travel around campus
- The visitors centre
Support and Student Services
Whatever the issue - financial, personal, academic or administrative - the University's Student Services and the Students' Union have experienced and sympathetic people, groups and advice centres to help you.
Students with Additional Support Needs
We welcome applications from people with additional support needs arising from long-term medical conditions, mental difficulty, specific learning difficulty, dyslexia or a disability. Contact the Officer responsible for the Subject Area in which you interested or the University Disability Office +44 (0)161 275 7512 or +44 (0)161 275 8518 for guidance and information on the University's policy and provision. Visits to the University can be arranged and an appointment made to speak with a disability adviser in order to discuss any support arrangements. www.manchester.ac.uk/disability.
Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
This fantastic 350-seat venue, which is located within the Martin Harris Centre, hosts an extensive series of concerts throughout the academic year, including the major annual series given by the University's international string quartet-in-residence, Quatuor Danel.
- Visit the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall pages within the Martin Harris Centre website for more information about events.
John Thaw Studio Theatre
The John Thaw Studio Theatre is not only used for a variety of performances, rehearsals and workshops, but also as a venue for visiting professional companies and artists.
The fully equipped performance space, located within the Martin Harris Centre, seats up to 150 people and is the venue for productions such as experimental performance and music theatre.
- Visit the John Thaw Studio Theatre pages within the Martin Harris website for more information about events.
The Manchester Museum
The Manchester Museum provides access to about six million items from every continent in the world.
Butterflies and carvings from India are exhibited in the museum, as are birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific.
Live frogs and ancient pottery from America share the building with fossils and native art from Australia, mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa and art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean.
In terms of artefacts from this continent, the museum has plants, coins and minerals from Europe together with beetles, armour and archery from Asia.
- Visit the Museum website.
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama is situated at the heart of the oldest part of the University and is an exciting refurbishment of two existing buildings.
It is made up of the John Thaw Studio Theatre and the new Cosmo Rodewald Concert Theatre.
- Visit the Martin Harris Centre website.
The Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Gallery is home to internationally-renowned collections of British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers, as well as an impressive range of modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture.
An ever-changing programme of temporary exhibitions also runs throughout the year, with the Mezzanine Court serving as an exciting venue for showing sculpture.
- Visit the The Whitworth Gallery website.