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Museum of Wigan Life

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Museum of Wigan Life
Museum of Wigan Life. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

About

The Museum of Wigan Life is a public museum and local history resource centre in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The nineteenth-century listed building is by the noted architect Alfred Waterhouse. It originally housed Wigan Library, where George Orwell researched his book The Road to Wigan Pier in 1936.

The museum works with other museums in Greater Manchester as part of the Greater Manchester Museums Group (GMMG).

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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