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New My House of Memories ‘Irish connections’ app content
Irish dancing dress The House of Memories team is celebrating St Patrick’s Day with the release of a special new theme featuring Irish related objects for the My House of Memories app. Liverpool is a...
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Roller-skating Victorians
The research undertaken into the history of Pembroke Place, as part of the Galkoff’s and Secret Life of Pembroke Place project is throwing up some exciting and quirky aspects of Liverpool’s history! As...
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Easter fun at National Museums Liverpool
Hop over to our museums and galleries for some free fun activities during the holidays! William Brown Street is filled with fun activities this Easter. Come along and celebrate Easter early at the...
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Easter holidays at Museum of Liverpool
Kids at play in 1950s. Image © Karl Hughes ARPS 1901-1979 courtesy of Suzanne Lawton For some of you you’re half way through it and for others it’s about to start but in either case the words school...
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The legacy of LGBT visibility at National Museums Liverpool
The Gang by Catherine Opie “LGBT history is everyone’s history and we’re proud to tell it”, says Charlotte Keenan, Curator of British Art at the Walker Art Gallery. Here, she blogs about National...
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50 years of Mersey Sound
‘The Mersey Sound’ is a collection of poems by Liverpudlian poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri. It was hugely successful when first published 50 years ago in 1967. Fueled by the craze...
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Walton Child Star – A life less ordinary
“She was extremely charismatic, headstrong and passionate” Josephine tap toe dancing on drum Anne Hutchinson, 2016 For International Women’s Day we are featuring these wonderful items, which tell the...
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Happy 300th Birthday, Bluecoat!
Bluecoat courtyard Throughout this year there is an impressive series of events across the city to celebrate 300 years of one of Liverpool’s most cherished (and oldest) buildings, Bluecoat. Today...
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Guest blog: Yan Preston on her work, ‘Now and Before’
Yihao, student and amateur footballer, Wyncote Sports Grounds, Liverpool, 2016 © Yan Preston. As part of Look/17 Yan Preston’s ‘Now and Before’ is on display on Museum of Liverpool‘s media wall and...
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Bootle man, Arthur Procter VC, honoured in new memorial
Arthur Herbert Procter This morning there was a ceremony at the Freemason Hall in London, to unveil a memorial commemorating the 64 freemasons who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World...
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Spring into the bank holiday weekend at National Museums Liverpool
Those three little words we all long to hear – bank holiday weekend! This year it feels a little more special as the bank holiday is actually on 1st May – May Day – an opportunity to say goodbye to the...
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Clothing out of the closet
Punk bondage suit “Clothes, fashionable or otherwise, and whether we realise it or not, almost always have a message”, says Senior Curator of Art Galleries, Pauline Rushton. “They ‘speak’ to others of...
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A Prospect of Liverpool
Visitors to the Museum of Liverpool marvel at Ben Johnson’s ‘Liverpool Cityscape’. This is the latest fabulous piece of art in a long line of views of Liverpool which capture the developing town/city...
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Buy memory resources from the new House of Memories online shop
A Liverpool-themed Memory Box available to buy from the House of Memories online shop. We’re delighted to be able to share our new, accessible House of Memories online shop where you can purchase House...
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Remembering the Liverpool Carters
Anthony, the great-grandson of Liverpool carter, Cornelius Hart contemplates the May Day decorations he helped to make. On Saturday 6th May 2017 we held our annual ‘Remembering the Liverpool Carters’...
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Felix Scott: a Victorian life
Clockwise from left: Felix Scott’s Royal Navy Record of service (source: the National Archives); HMS Charybdis, 1870; HMS Tamar, c1880 Today we have a guest blog from Jamie Calladine, a volunteer...
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Dementia Awareness Week 2017 at National Museums Liverpool
Image © Robin Clewley This week (15 – 21 May) is Dementia Awareness Week – an annual event organised by Alzheimer’s Society as an opportunity for everyone across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to...
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Half-term highlights
Half-term is fast approaching and National Museums Liverpool has a fantastic range of activities to keep the little ones busy. At World Museum step back a few thousand years in the new ancient Egypt...
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50 is the magic number!
The Beatles display in our Wondrous Place gallery. Image © Mark McNulty We’re only days away from the first of Liverpool’s celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the release of the seminal album ‘Sgt...
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Betty and her cookery books
Betty with part of her cook book collection Whilst having a stand at the Granby Street Market, I was lucky enough to meet Betty Vandy and try some of her amazing food. I told her about the Sankofa...
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