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Liverpool in Cinema
Liverpool in Cinema The Liverpool Small Cinema is hosting a two day programme of screenings and discussions this weekend, which ask us to think about Liverpool old and new through film. Organiser...
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There’s no place like Garlands!
This morning we opened a new display – There’s no place like Garlands! – celebrating the iconic Liverpool nightclub, to coincide with Liverpool Pride, 30-31 July. About a year ago, I’d just started...
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We’re shortlisted for the City of Liverpool Business Awards
National Museums Liverpool is up for the Best Customer Focused Business accolade at the City of Liverpool Business Awards tonight. The annual Awards are a celebration of the thriving business...
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Summer Fun at National Museums Liverpool
Children activity Join free family activities this summer National Museums Liverpool has a fun-filled summer of events and activities for the whole family to enjoy across all of the venues. Mini...
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Centenary of the Somme battles: Attacking Guillemont
Medals and badge of Sergeant Herbert Lawrenson, displayed in the Museum of Liverpool. Herbert (pictured below), from Smithdown Road, served with the 20th Battalion and was killed on 30 July. His body...
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National Museums Liverpool has Pride!
I remember my first Liverpool Pride, back in 2010. I was finishing off my university year and I stumbled across it quite by accident. Needless to say I had an amazing time and funnily enough I will be...
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Somme centenary: the third attack on Guillemont
This map shows the position of the Territorials and 1st Battalion (marked in blue), in the third attack on the village. The arrows show their proposed movement to their objective lines. In the early...
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Somme centenary: the battle for Guillemont continues
Guillemont Road Cemetery, where many King’s Regiment soldiers are buried As night fell on 8 August 1916, a few of the men from the 1st Battalion had escaped the attack and found their way back to the...
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Love our Liver birds
Life-sized Liver bird looking out of our window We know them so well. They appear all around the city, sometimes in the most unexpected of places. They have become part of the fabric of the place, so...
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Museum of Liverpool reaches Window with a View finals
View from The People’s Republic in Museum of Liverpool. Image Ant Clausen We are thrilled to have won the regional competition and now be the North West’s entry for the UK’s Best Window with a View....
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Lunt Meadows opens to visitors
The nationally important Lunt Meadows prehistoric hunter-gatherer settlement has been under excavation for the last few years in a wetland nature reserve managed by the Wildlife Trust. Recently, the...
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A friendship was forged and history was made.
St. Peter’s Church Hall stage Sometimes there is no mistaking which objects belong in a museum’s collection. The object may not be particularly old. It needn’t be ornate or fragile. It might look to...
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The making of the cityscape
I was honoured to be among the first people to see the astounding views from the Museum of Liverpool’s second floor windows. I visited the building when it was still a building site, and the windows...
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Galkoff’s – find out more and get involved!
Galkoff’s butcher’s shop today – behind protective hoarding, courtesy of LSTM We will be holding a public engagement event at the Museum of Liverpool on Sunday 18 September, 2-4pm, open to anyone who...
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University of Liverpool lecture series at the Museum of Liverpool
Museum of Liverpool Dr Claire Jones of the University of Liverpool tells us more about a series of lectures this month at the Museum of Liverpool which explore the histories of helping others in a...
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Somme centenary: the final attack on Guillemont
Guillemont after the September 1916 Somme battles On 3 September 1916, after four unsuccessful attacks on the village of Guillemont, the British Army, as part of a wider push, launched another assault....
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Museums are dementia experts
House of Memories © Robin Clewley September 2016 marks World Alzheimer’s Month, an international campaign to raise awareness of dementia and challenge stigma. Here in the UK, National Museums Liverpool...
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Free national dementia workshops for family carers
Carers discover a vintage hairdryer © Pete Carr This Sunday, 11 September marks National Dementia Carers’ Day, which recognises the important contribution family and informal carers make by caring for...
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Celebrating our archaeology volunteers
Volunteer Sophie Flynn starting to clean a hoard of Roman coins The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary recording scheme for archaeological objects found by members of the public. Every...
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Happy birthday Merseyside Archaeological Society!
South Castle Street excavation, 1976 Merseyside Archaeological Society (MAS) celebrates its 40th anniversary this year! In the winter of 1975-1976 local archaeologists, both professional and voluntary,...
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