Qualla: Manx Museum https://qualla.com/manx-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/manx-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Manx Museum https://qualla.com/manx-museum Manx Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/manx-museum/ Photo credit Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0. Rebecca Noble laid the foundation stone on Crellin's Hill and then did not live to see the building open. That was 1885. The building she put her name to was a hospital, paid for by the philanthropist and businessman she had married, Henry Bloom Noble. When the new Noble's Hospital opened on Westmoreland Road in 1912, the old one sat empty for nearly a decade. Then in November 1922 it opened again, this time as the Manx Museum, with the antiquarian Philip Moore Callow Kermode as its first director. Today it holds ten thousand years of Manx history, from Stone Age tools to TT-winning Suzukis.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/manx-museum-wp/gcsu-manx-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Manx Museum: The Museum That Wasn't https://qualla.com/manx-museum/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Smurrayinchester assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. There had been a museum called the Manx Museum before, founded by the entrepreneur and author Trevor Ashe in 1825. It has nothing to do with the current institution. The modern Manx Museum traces its origin to the Manx Museum and Ancient Monuments Act of 1886, an act of Tynwald t...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/manx-museum-wp/gcsu-manx-museum-the-museum-that-wasnt.mp3 0:06 2 full Manx Museum: Ten Thousand Years on Crellin's Hill https://qualla.com/manx-museum/ Photo credit Manx_James, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk in from the small car park and the chronology begins early. The Stone Age tools sit beside Bronze Age burials. The Viking section is one of the museum's strengths: the island was a Norse kingdom for centuries, and its slate crosses, with their tangled animal-knot carvings, a...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/manx-museum-wp/gcsu-manx-museum-ten-thousand-years-on-crellins-hill.mp3 0:06 3 full Manx Museum: Bikes and Wartime Stories https://qualla.com/manx-museum/ Photo credit Richard Hoare, CC BY-SA 2.0. Every summer, the museum mounts an exhibition on the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy and motorcycle racing, which is the closest thing the island has to a national religion. The display has included a 1970 Suzuki T500, race-prepared by Eddie Crooks and ridden by Frank Whiteway to vict...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/manx-museum-wp/gcsu-manx-museum-bikes-and-wartime-stories.mp3 0:06 4 full Manx Museum: How Many Visitors, Really? https://qualla.com/manx-museum/ Photo credit Eirik Newth from Oslo, Oslo, CC BY 2.0. In 2018, Manx National Heritage said the museum drew around 100,000 visitors a year on average. The local press disagreed. A freedom of information request from the Isle of Man Newspapers revealed the actual counted figures: 63,953 in 2015, 68,602 in 2016, and 72,661 in 2017. The...

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