Students unite to create exhibition

AN Inheritance: 500 School Children Curate Collection For Children Of The Future

- PREVIEW: STEVE COOKE

HIGHLY recommended, innovative project sees Year 5 pupils from schools across Greater present an exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery as part of this year's MIF featuring objects and advice for the children of 2125.

Key representatives from the city will attend a special ceremony promising to safeguard the collection and show the exhibition again in 100 years' time.

Hundreds of schoolchildren from across Greater Manchester have worked together to present An Inheritance at Manchester Art Gallery (July 4 - November 2, 2025).

The exhibition features a collection of objects, advice and knowledge as a gift for the children of Manchester 2125 and is an invitation to think about the legacy we leave behind and what it means to be a good ancestor.

Offering insight into what young people feel about the world we live in, the space also offers visitors the opportunity to add their own advice to the collection.

The project has been led by artists Andy Field, Beckie Darlington and Rosabel Tan, who spent over 18 months visiting schools in every borough of Greater Manchester to deliver a series of workshops to pupils.

Each school has contributed advice from the pupils and an item from the world we live in today for the children of the future, including a football, pot of honey and set of Uno cards.