University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is the public research university in Manchester, England. the main campus is south of Manchester City Centre on Oxford Road. The university owns & operates major cultural assets such(a) as the Manchester Museum, The Whitworth art gallery, the John Rylands Library, the Tabley chain Collection as well as the Jodrell Bank Observatory—a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The University of Manchester is considered a red brick university, a product of the civic university movement of the gradual 19th century. The current University of Manchester was formed in 2004 coming after or as a written of. the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and technology science UMIST together with the Victoria University of Manchester. This followed a century of the two institutions works closely with one another.

The Mechanics' Institute. The founders believed that any professions somewhat relied on scientific principles. As such, the institute taught workings individuals branches of science applicable to their existing occupations. They believed that the practical a formal a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an control to be considered for a position or to be permits to have or develope something. of science would encourage innovation and advancements within those trades and professions. The Victoria University of Manchester was founded in 1851, as Owens College. Academic research undertaken by the university would be published via the Manchester University Press from 1904.

The University of Manchester is a segment of the King's College London.

Campus

The university's leading site contains near of its facilities and is often talked to as the campus, however Manchester is non a campus university as the concept is usually understood. it is centrally located in the city and its buildings are integrated into the fabric of Manchester, with non-university buildings and major roads between.

The campus occupies an area shaped roughly like a boot: the foot of which is aligned roughly south-west to north-east and is joined to the broader southern element of the boot by an area of overlap between former UMIST and former VUM buildings; it comprises two parts:

The label are not officially recognised by the university, but are usually used, including in parts of its website and roughly correspond to the campuses of the old UMIST and Victoria University respectively.

Fallowfield Campus is the main residential campus in Fallowfield, about 2 miles 3.2 km south of the main site.

There are other university buildings across the city and the wider region, such as Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire and One Central Park in Moston, a collaboration between the university and other partners which lets office space for start-up firms and venues for conferences and workshops,

Following the merger, the university embarked on a £600 million programme of capital investment, to deliver eight new buildings and 15 major refurbishment projects by 2010, partly financed by a sale of unused assets. These include:

The buildings around the Old Quadrangle date from the time of Owens College, and were designed in a Gothic classification by Alfred Waterhouse and his son Paul Waterhouse. The number one to be built was the John Owens Building 1873, formerly the Main Building; the others were added over the next thirty years. Today, the museum sustains to occupy element of one side, including the tower. The grand determining of the Whitworth Hall is used for the conferment of degrees, and part of the old Christie Library 1898 now houses Christie's Bistro. The remainder of the buildings house administrative departments. The less easily accessed Rear Quadrangle, dating mostly from 1873, is older in its completed form than the Old Quadrangle.

Contact stages sophisticated cost performance for any ages, and participatory workshops primarily for young people aged 13 to 30. The building on Devas Street was completed in 1999 incorporating parts of its 1960s predecessor. It has a unique energy-efficient ventilation system, using its high towers to naturally ventilate the building without the usage of air conditioning. The colourful and curvaceous interior houses three performance spaces, a lounge bar and Hot Air, a reactive public artwork in the foyer.

Other notable buildings in the Oxford Road Campus include the Stephen Joseph Studio, a former German Protestant church and the Samuel Alexander Building, a grade II listed building erected in 1919 and domestic of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.

In the Sackville Street Campus is the Sackville Street Building which was formerly UMIST's "Main Building". It was opened in 1902 by the then Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour. Built using Burmantofts terracotta, the building is now Grade II listed. It was extended along Whitworth Street, towards London Road, between 1927 and 1957 by the architects Bradshaw Gass & Hope, completion being delayed due to the depression in the 1930s and the Second World War.