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Science and Industry Museum to vacate lease on Air and Space Hall Avro Shackleton. Photo: Science Museum Group. MANCHESTER .- The Science and Industry Museum and Manchester City Council announce today that the museum will no longer lease the historic Lower Campfield market hall building which houses the Air and Space Hall. This hall, which is closed due to the extent of repairs needed, and many of the objects within it, formed Manchester City Council s Air and Space Museum, which opened in 1983.The Air and Space Hall was originally taken on by the North Western Museum of Science and Industry in 1985 due to the disbanding of Greater Manchester Council’s Air and Space Museum, before transferring to the Science Museum Group in 2012.

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