Wigan Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Wigan, Greater Manchester
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Closed — opens Tuesday at 10am
🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducational
What’s there
- Limited parking
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Limited parking on Library Street, with accessible parking at the top of the street. Pay and display on Rodney Street and the Grand Arcade multi-storey are a few minutes' walk away.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Wigan Museum occupies the former Wigan Free Public Library on Library Street, a Gothic Revival building by Alfred Waterhouse that opened in 1878. Known for many years as the Museum of Wigan Life, it presents the borough's past through displays on local industry, sport, music, wartime and everyday life, drawn from a collection of around 30,000 objects. The museum describes itself as especially welcoming to families, and entry is free. Upstairs, the Wigan Local Studies department offers family history resources, including local newspapers and electoral registers on microfilm, along with public computers. School visits, workshops and events run through the year. Its ground-floor galleries are being redeveloped at present, so check the museum's own page before travelling.
Ground-floor galleries closed for redevelopment from 25 July; reopening Summer 2027 as stated on the museum site.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes
Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.- Hand sanitiser
Portable phone charger
Spare batteries- Sun cream for after
Kids' headphones
Refillable coffee cupA lot of cafés knock money off.
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0 · david falkner from Birmingham, England, CC BY 2.0
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