Iconic designs by Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant and Laura Ashley are being showcased in a new display celebrating costume, jewellery and decorative objects made by female designers. Creating Visions: ...

The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway on 15 September 1830 was a momentous event in the history of travel and transport. In the dim and distant past I wrote my MA dissertation on the ...

Registers of fishing vessels and individual cancelled register papers of such vessels, including many from Southport and the Wirral.

The Americas collections number nearly 9000 artefacts, ranging from pre-Hispanic material to the work of leading contemporary First Nations/Native American artists. Here are some highlights from our ...

When you arrive at the Museum of Liverpool you are greeted by a line of superlambananas near the entrance. These bold sculptures have been delighting and confusing visitors since the museum first ...

From the Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, volume 1: Booth Line. After a business apprenticeship with Lamport and Holt and then as a leather merchant, Alfred Booth, with his brother ...

This story is taken from Arthurian Legend, which was the artist’s favourite subject. Merlin had fallen in love with Nimue (also called Nimiane, Vivian or Vivien). She profited from his infatuation by ...

This painting is a product of the early phase of the British movement to abolish the transatlantic slave trade during the 18th and 19th century. Its dominant image is that of an enslaved African, set ...

Densely packed court housing in a state of severe dilapidation in the St. Anne Street area is clearly shown in this model. The 124 three-storey houses had been built prior to 1828. The majority were ...

Rossetti had a life-long interest in the Italian poet Dante. This painting shows an episode from the 'Vita Nuova'. In it Dante dreams that he is led by Love to the death-bed of Beatrice Portinari, the ...

'The Kingston Brooch' is the largest known Anglo-Saxon composite brooch. With its fine zoomorphic filigree, narrow bead and twisted-wire rim decoration, inlaid with blue glass, white shell and ...

This apocalyptic vision, inspired by Thomas Campbell’s poem of 1823 describing a future world in which only one human being is left alive, shows a deserted city divided from the rocks to the right by ...