and the Second World War.
=== Cultural institutions ===
The university's Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire is a World Heritage Site and home to the 76-m Lovell Telescope. Other cultural institutions at the university include the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, the Whitworth art gallery and the Manchester Museum. The special collections at the John Rylands Library, and the entire collections at the Whitworth and the Manchester Museum are designated under the Arts Council England's Designation Scheme as being among the "pre-eminent collections held in museums, libraries and archives across England".
== Organisation and administration ==
=== Faculties and schools ===
The University of Manchester is divided into three faculties: biology, medicine and health; science and engineering; and humanities.
==== Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health ====
The faculty is divided into the School of Biological Sciences, the School of Medical Sciences and the School of Health Sciences.
Biological sciences …