Museum of Liverpool
at Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool , L3 1DG United Kingdom
Address and contacts of Museum of Liverpool
Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool L3 1DG
United Kingdom Email
Description
The Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, is the newest addition to the National Museums Liverpool group having opened in 2011 replacing the former Museum of Liverpool Life. National Museums Liverpool intention is for the new venue to tell the story of Liverpool and its people, and reflect the city’s global significance. The museum is housed in a new purpose-built building on the Mann Island site at the Pier Head.The museum, designed by architects 3XN and engineers Buro Happold, was expected to cost £72 million and provide 8,000 square metres of exhibition space, housing more than 6,000 objects. There are also plans to have flexible spaces that regularly change to enable National Museums Liverpool to show more of their collections.ExhibitionsExhibits from the entirety of National Museums Liverpool's collections are used for the Museum of Liverpool's displays. They tell the story of the city through items from collections of costume and decorative art, entomological and botanical collections and objects representing social and urban history, as well as oral testimonies, archaeological material and photographic archives.On 27 February 2007, steam locomotive Lion, star of the film The Titfield Thunderbolt, was moved by road from Manchester to Liverpool after being on loan to Manchester while the new museum was under construction. Some conservation work took place prior to it taking pride of place in the new museum.
Opening time
- Mondays: 10:00- 17:00
- Tuesdays: 10:00- 17:00
- Wednesdays: 10:00- 17:00
- Thursdays: 10:00- 17:00
- Fridays: 10:00- 17:00
- Saturdays: 10:00- 17:00
- Sundays: 10:00- 17:00
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Summary
Museum of Liverpool is Liverpool based place and this enity listed in Community & Government category. Located at Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront L3 1DG. Contact phone number of Museum of Liverpool: 0151 478 4545
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