Manchester Cathedral is a medieval church on Victoria Street in central Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester. Although constructed over a period of 600 years, its main architectural style is Perpendicular Gothic, replete with tall windows and flat fan-vaulted ceilings. The interior of the church contains many pieces of period art, notably the medievalwoodcarvings of the Ripon Carvers. It is one of the Grade I listed buildings in Manchester.

The first recorded Christian church in Manchester was built in the 7th century. After this was destroyed by the Vikings, King Edward the Elder ordered the building of a new church near the earlier site in 923. This church was recorded in the Domesday book as St. Mary's. During World War II, a German bomb severely damaged the cathedral; it took nearly twenty years to repair all of the destruction. The cathedral became a Grade I listed building on the 25th of January, 1952.

The Royal Exchange is a Victorian building in Manchester, England. The first exchange was built nearby in 1729; this was replaced by a larger building in The interior building was rebuilt after war damage with a much smaller trading area. The building remained empty until 1973 when it was used to temporarily house a theatre company. An innovative theatre in the round was completed in 1976 and has housed the Royal Exchange Theatre since. The building was seriously damaged twice. A direct hit during World War II seriously damaged the building. Today it is one of the most favourite tourist attraction.

The Manchester Museum is owned by the University of Manchester. Sited on Oxford Road at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about six million items from every continent and serves both as a resource for academic research and teaching and as a regional public museum. The museum's first collections were assembled by the Manchester Society of Natural History, formed in 1821 with the purchase of the collection of John Leigh Philips. In 1850 the collections of the Manchester Geological Society were added. During the First World War, many local schools were used as military hospitals. In cooperation with the local education authorities, the Manchester Museum gave classes to the displaced school children. This system, which continued for 80 years, was one of the first of its kind in the country.