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If you're a history buff, art aficionado, archaeology fiend, or dabbler in the sciences, our museum picks are perfect for a rainy day or afternoon excursion! Our selections center around notable collections of historical and cultural items. Many have excellent rotating displays in addition to exceptional permanent collections.
Category: Museums - Liverpool Attractions & Activities
Address: Port Sunlight Village, Port Sunlight CH62 5EQ
Within close proximity of Liverpool, this museum features a diverse collection of cultural items from Africa, Rome, Greece, and Asia. Exhibits include porcelain, sculptures, tapestries, furniture, and embroideries, and there is also a superb gathering of British paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Category: Museums - Liverpool Attractions & Activities
Address: Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4AQ
Liverpool has long enjoyed a prominent role in nautical activity, and this museum does a splendid job of relating this aspect of the city's history via interactive, audiovisual exhibits. The original models of the Lusitania and the Atlantic are located here. On-site restaurant, café, and conference room.
Category: Museums - Liverpool Attractions & Activities
Address: Old Haymarket, White Chapel, Liverpool L1 6HZ
This remarkable facility provides an informative glimpse into the preservation of art, items of antiquity, and rare treasures. Great interactive exhibits, and there's also an on-site café and gift shop.
Category: Museums - Liverpool Attractions & Activities
Address: The Colonnades, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB
The northern extension to London's renowned Tate Gallery is the site of Liverpool's most extensive collection of art and of frequent temporary exhibits. On-site café and gift shop.
Category: Museums - Liverpool Attractions & Activities
Address: Britannia Pavilion, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4AA
This multimedia museum chronicles the Beatles' career from their humble origins in Liverpool to their stormy breakup in 1970.
Category: Museums - Liverpool Attractions & Activities
Address: William Brown St, Liverpool L3 8EL
Founded in 1877, with additions made during the 1930s, this popular gallery boasts an authoritative collection of art from the 14th to 20th centuries, with sculptures, paintings, and fine art from the likes of Matisse, Rembrandt, Monet, Yeames, and Rossetti. Particularly noteworthy is Martini's "Jesus Discovered in the Temple." On-site café and...
Western Approaches Operations Centre Museum
Category: Museums - Liverpool Attractions & Activities
Address: 1-3 Rumford St, Liverpool L2 8SZ
During the 1940s, this underground facility served as a covert naval headquarters, and its present-day incarnation has done an admirable job of recapturing this important era. The facility has been reconstructed to offer a first-hand glimpse at the day-to-day operations involved in planning the British-American air-sea attack. Hands-on exhibits...
Category: Museums - Liverpool Attractions & Activities
Address: William Brown St, Liverpool L3 8EN
Merseyside's oldest and largest museum has origins dating back to 1860. Exhibits reconstruct periods past, present, and the future, with Egypt, Greece, and Anglo-Saxon England particularly well represented. A fascinating natural history sector offers a glimpse at climates ranging from rainforests to the Artic. There are also displays covering pop...
