Liverpool Museums

The Liverpool’s Museums began circulating specimens to schools for educational purposes; panoramas and habitat groups were used to facilitate interpretation. Just to mention some of them: Liverpool Museum, Merseyside Maritime Museum, World Museum Liverpool, the Boat Museum, Prescot Museum, British Lawnmower Museum and Wirral Museum among others venues.

All museums open from 10am to 5pm every day except 24 December (close at 2pm), 25 and 26 December and 1 January.

Merseyside Maritime Museum

The Merseyside Maritime Museum forms part of National Museums Liverpool and an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. It was opened in 1980 and is based in the Albert Dock, specifically it occupies warehouse block D, along with the Piermaster’s House, Canning Half Tide Dock and Canning Graving Docks.

The shipshape is contained in four floors of fascinating galleries, it’s collections contains over two million objects related to seafaring, navigation, astronomy and time measurement and it reflects the international importance of Liverpool as a gateway to the world, including its role in the transatlantic slave trade and emigration and the merchant navy.

The recent gallery open in 2008 tells the stories of the most famous and most tragic ships in history – the Titanic, Lusitania and Empress of Ireland, which had strong links with Liverpool and its people. People learn about the vital role that Liverpool played in the campaign of the Second World War in the Battle of the Atlantic gallery. The Mersey Maritime Museum also includes maritime paintings, colourful posters from the golden age of liners and even some full sized vessels.

Aquarium – Liverpool World Museum

At the beginning was called Derby Museum and contained a natural history collection that it just occupies two rooms in a building on Duke Street. Rapidly the museum increases its visitors and the building was too small to accommodate the crowds. William Brown a wealthy Liverpool merchant offered to provide the land and finance to create a museum with fashionably neo-classical style, called William Brown Street and close to St George’s Hall. Its botanical and zoological collections increased but during the war it was inevitably affected, with many objects being moved away from the city centre for safety and an incendiary bomb which destroyed the museum in 1941.

In spite of everything and with the years the museum’s collections continue to grow and reopening in April 2005. Nowadays the refurbished museum combines historic treasures from entire world with the latest interactive technology to make an unbeatable family day out. Its visitors have been fascinated by beautiful galleries and the latest interactive and technological facilities. Due to receive the name 'World Museum Liverpool' seemed appropriate to actual characteristics.

These new galleries include World Cultures; the Bug House with giant animatronics including a two metre house-fly and live vivariums of scuttling insects, the new Aquarium has a dedicated learning and activity space, the Weston Discovery Centre and the Clore Natural History Centre.

The International Slavery Museum is located in Liverpool’s Albert Dock, opened on 23 August 2007 and explores historical and contemporary aspects of slavery. The dynamic museum includes displays about the legacy of transatlantic slavery and addresses issues such as freedom, identity, human rights, reparations, racial discrimination and cultural change.

Working in partnership with other museums with a focus on freedom and enslavement, the museum provides opportunities for greater awareness and understanding of the legacy of slavery today.

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