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The Manchester Lamps celebrates the city’s rich history of innovation and community.

Inspired by the famed Sir Robert Peel quote, ‘What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow’, this public art sculpture honours Manchester’s industrial past whilst optimistically looking towards the future.

The artwork is centred around five playfully oversized domestic lamps that invite interaction and engagement with this key public space in the city centre. Each of the five installations marks a significant local historical innovation, its time period echoed by the lamp’s distinctive design style; Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Victorian, mid-century and contemporary.