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Visitors’ Centre/ Jean McFarlane Building Alan Turing Building Kilburn Building Waterloo Place University Place B C D E A Houses the School of Mathematics, the Photon Opened in 1972 and named after Tom Kilburn, A row of redbrick Grade II-listed Georgian HHome tto ththe SSchool h l of f Nursing, N i MidMidwifery if Contains teaching rooms, lecture theatres, Science Institute and the Jodrell Bank Centre for RQHRIWKHPDNHUVRIWKHZRUOGšVǌUVW houses. Before the post-war development and Social Work. Jean McFarlane developed restaurants and the University’s Visitors’ Centre. Astrophysics, and contains teaching facilities and stored-programme computer, this building period, much of Oxford Road looked like this. a degree course and established the country’s The Atrium provides support information, advice state-of-the-art research laboratories. is home to the School of Computer Science. and guidance and a careers service for students. ǌUVWSURIHVVLRQDOQXUVLQJXQLW Manchester WALKING TOUR Oxford Road Campus Business School to Sackville Street Campus F P The largest campus-based school in the UK, with around 2,000 students and over 200 WHDFKLQJVWDǋ to Oxford Road Campus Arthur Lewis Building Sackville Street Campus Walking time about 20 mins G from University Place This area is home to the Schools of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Manchester Museum Home to the School of Social Sciences and Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and our the School of Environment, Education and Development, the building is designed to minimise Textiles department. to Whitworth Art Gallery H environmental impact. Photovoltaic cells on the The Sackville Street Building Walking time about 10 mins roof providep electricityyyg throughout the year. y from University Place U is a gem nestled in our Sackville Rutherford Building Street Campus. The building is home to the Joule Library and the Godlee Observatory. I The Manchester Institute of Houses a large collection of ancient Egyptian Biotechnology is based at the artifacts, natural history artifacts and cultural V John Garside Building. This purpose- displays. Meet the live amphibians and reptiles built interdisciplinary research in the award-winning vivarium. institute is home to an inter- Houses several beautiful disciplinary community of researchers. P collections of watercolours, ErnestErE nest RutherfordRutheerford waswas awardedawarded thethe NobelNobel PrPrizeize Martin Harris Centre modern art and a number for Chemistry in 1908. His greatest discoveries 8QGHUWKHDUFKZD\\RXšOOǌQGWKH for Music and Drama of sculptures both in the of the atomic nucleus and splitting of the atom W statue of Archimedes in his bath gallery and in its grounds. were made in this building. by Thompson Dagnall. This is J neighboured by three apple trees Dental Hospital/ The Old The oldest part of the University and Alan Gilbert said to have been grown from School of Dentistry Quadrangle designed by Alfred Waterhouse. Grade II-listed, Learning cuttings taken from apple trees it comprises three buildings: Commons in Sir Isaac Newton’s garden. The Vimto monument was carved K L The John Owens Building contains many by Kerry Morrison and installed RIWKH8QLYHUVLWLHVDGPLQLVWUDWLYHRǎFHV M in Granby Row in 1992. This was the The Whitworth Building contains the stunning Whitworth Hall, which is used for graduation VLWHRIWKHIDFWRU\ZKHUHWKHǌUVW 7KHFHQWUHRǋHUVDIDQWDVWLFFRQWHPSRUDU\ batch of Vimto was made by John ceremonies. space to study and perform. It incorporates A state-of-the-art learning facility, open 24-7. Noel Nichols back in 1908. The School of Dentistry incorporates two high-spec Originally the Owens College library, the a 350-seat theatre and a 150-seat theatre, ,WKRXVHVǌ[HGZRUNVWDWLRQVEUHDNRXWDUHDV clinical skills labs, state-of-the-art teaching facilities Christie Building is the perfect place for lunch and an electroacoustic music studio. and workspaces with multimedia facilities. and a range of comfortable workspaces for students. RUDFRǋHHDQGDFDWFKXSZLWKIULHQGV Main Library Samuel Alexander Building Michael Smith & Stopford Building The Academy Students’ Union N AV Hill Buildings O R 02S T P & Q With over 4 million illi printed i t d bbooks k and d manuscripts, over 29,000 unique electronic Teaching and research facilities for biologists, journals, 414,000 electronic books and several Home to the School of Arts, Languages and pharmacists and medical researchers. Manchester Medical School and the Faculty of Life The biggest in the UK and run by students hundred databases this is the largest single site Cultures. The inscription over the entrance, Scientists worked closely with architects to provide Sciences are based here. The facilities include large Hosts concerts, events and gigs throughout the for students. Contains a bar, a cafe, three university library in the UK. There are several ‘Arduus Ad Solem’, means ‘striving towards a building that would encourage collaboration teaching laboratories, lecture theatres, teaching year – attracting the latest big-name and up-and- music venues, plus meeting rooms for societies study areas, computer clusters and group rooms. the sun’. between research groups. rooms and the Stopford Library. coming bands. and clubs..

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