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Remembering Concepcion Picciotto
Protestor Tent outside the White House, Washington DC. Copyright Lee Karen Stow Photographer Lee Karen Stow talks about her continuing work on the Poppies: Women and War project – something which you...
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National Museums and Wellbeing Week
Museums can enhance feelings of wellbeing This week is the first ever ‘National Museums and Wellbeing Week’. Visiting museums and participating in the arts has been shown to alleviate stress, combat...
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‘Women on The Waterfront’ weekend for International Women’s Day
Liverpool Roller Birds’ A team, Sisters of Mersey, skate out before a game. Image by Taut Clothing. Our ‘Women on The Waterfront’ weekend on 5 and 6 of March will showcase local women’s achievements...
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Women of the Vietnam War
1st LT Diane Carlson Evans at a hospital in Vietnam, 1968. Courtesy of Diane Evans Photographer Lee Karen Stow will travel to Washington DC soon as part of the continuing Poppies: Women and War....
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Outer appearances
Buddhist monks dress with conformity to help a simple and meditative life In modern society many of us try no to make too many assumptions about people based on what they look like, and doing so is a...
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Harris Jonas takes a look at our Japanese swords
Harris (left) taking in the history of the blades with Mark (right). This week we had a visitor to the Japan collections. Ethnology volunteer Mark Jones tells us about it here. “In a blog I wrote back...
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Merseyside’s oldest skeleton gets a facelift
‘Leasowe Man’ as reconstructed by Facelab from his skull We’re delighted to have a brand new computer-generated 3D model of the face of Merseyside’s oldest skeleton on display in the Timeline in the...
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Reel Stories: what makes a Liverpool film?
Image copyright Jamie Reid Reel Stories has got our visitors talking. Be it reminiscing over old films, vowing to finally find time for that classic they’ve never seen or just stunned that a Hollywood...
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Remembering Nelson Asu
Working on the Pride and Prejudice project I often encounter things that I find familiar, like a bar, or a band. Just as often I find out stories that I had not heard before, some funny, some shocking,...
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Romans in springtime at the Museum of Liverpool
Check out the free events at the Museum of Liverpool Come and enjoy our free, fun family-friendly activities inspired by the Roman treasures of Cheshire display in the Museum of Liverpool atrium. Click...
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Picture Palaces of Liverpool
The Reel Stories exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool focuses on original film posters and memorabilia to celebrate Liverpool’s role in films over the past 60 years. Alongside this, the exhibition...
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Why do we treasure Treasure?
The Roman Treasures of Cheshire, on display at the Museum of Liverpool until 19 June, are two examples of deliberately buried hoards of precious objects – hidden for safekeeping and never collected....
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House of Memories Armed Forces Days
Army themed memory suitcase For the last few months I’ve been working on a very exciting new project in connection with the Museum of Liverpool’s award winning House of Memories. The programme has...
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Hillsborough tributes join Museum of Liverpool collection
Artist Christian Hook and actress Sue Johnston with the painting Two new objects, which have recently joined the Museum of Liverpool’s collection, have gone on display to mark the 27th anniversary of...
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Bainbridge Island’s Japanese American community
Depiction of a girl on the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial © Lee Karen Stow As part of her ongoing research for the Poppies: Women and War project, photographer Lee Karen Stow...
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Talks, tours and performances for 75th anniversary of the May Blitz
1940s role-players Next week is the 75th anniversary of the May Blitz, the peak of the bombing of Merseyside during the Second World War. From 1-7 May 1941 the region endured the most concentrated...
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Bootle’s May Queen
Edna May Fairweather, 1931 You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow ’ll be the happiest time of all the glad new-year,— Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest,...
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Remembering victims of the May Blitz, 1941
Mirror featuring image of Peter Johnson, aged 15 Here at Museum of Liverpool, we receive many generous, interesting, and often poignant donations of objects to our collections. Recently, we were...
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The one and only: Lady Seanne
Working in a museum it isn’t that often that you see a familiar face pop up from out of the collections, but whilst I was busy doing research for the Pride and Prejudice project I got the feeling I was...
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We’re 30!
If you’re from Liverpool, you’ll know that the museums and galleries in this city have been around for a long time…165 years to be precise! However, we can still lay claim to celebrating our 30th...
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