What is the Top Floor?
Open to public visitors during programmed events, workshops and public engagements.
The Top Floor Hub is a dynamic, community-centred space for action, sharing, learning and dreaming, used by a range of changemaking individuals/groups working across the city. The hub drives forward Manchester Museum’s mission to build understanding between cultures and a more sustainable world by opening up our space and resources to support local communities taking action on the issues they care about.
The hub is centred around a shared commitment to Social Justice and Environmental Action.
We define Social Justice as a process that recognises the roots of injustice and disrupts cycles of injustice by building understanding, solidarity and collective capacity for change – taking action to rebuild a just and equitable world.
Environmental Action is about behaviours and practices that reduce our negative impact on the earth and our environment and move us towards becoming a low carbon and low waste society. This includes rebuilding and repairing human connections with the natural world, considering the equal rights of all life on earth, and reimagining how we might live with one another and the planet in a more fair and sustainable future.