International Slavery Museum

Galleries & Museums.

International Slavery Museum

Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum looks at the slave trade and its legacy and related issues, based at Liverpool’s Albert Dock in the same building as the Maritime Museum

READ →

The Merseyside Maritime Museum is a vast exhibition space over four floors of the Albert Dock looking at Liverpool’s relationship with the sea in terms of mercantilism, leisure, war and emigration. The Maritime Museum’s displays take in Liverpool’s history as a port of global significance and the ramifications of the city’s mercantile past, the Battle [...]

READ →

Sudley House

National Museums Liverpool’s most southerly outpost, Sudley House is a former mansion originally owned by yet another Liverpudlian philanthropist (see also: Lady Lever gallery). It stands in its own grounds in the pretty Mossley Hill area. The gallery has a number of rooms containing the house’s original collections of art and furniture and explains the [...]

READ →

Lady Lever Art Gallery

The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a stunning neo-classical building in Port Sunlight, the centrepiece of a village built for workers at the nearby Lever Soap factory. The gallery, along with the village, was built by industrialist and Victorian philanthropist William Lever to house his collection of art, ceramics, furniture and sculpture. The gallery remains [...]

READ →

National Conservation Centre

Liverpool’s National Conservation Centre was formerly a public venue in the city that functioned to educate visitors as to the work undertaken by National Museums Liverpool. It also hosted a series of small but excellent photographic exhibitions and permanent exhibits relating to conservation. It boasted a cafe that was named after the Eros statue that [...]

READ →

World Museum Liverpool

World Museum Liverpool went through a bit of a rebrand a couple of years ago. Back then it was called Liverpool Museum and did the usual museum things: history, natural history, geology, astronomy, old stuff. And very good it was too But the forthcoming (and now open) Museom of Liverpool, which is about Liverpool, rather [...]

READ →