Museum of Liverpool, Liverpool

Overview

The new £70m Museum of Liverpool is a brand new national museum located on Liverpool's famous waterfront. The museum, currently under construction on Liverpool's Pier Head, next to the Three Graces, occupies one of the city's most prominent locations, visible from both the river and the city.


It will be an exceptional learning and community resource as well as a high quality contemporary public building, providing unprecedented access to more than 6,000 objects from the vast wealth of collections held by National Museums Liverpool, many of which have never previously been on public display. The 8,000 m² family visitor attraction, due to open in 2011, should attract 750,000 visitors a year.

Exhibition Design

The museum's exhibitions will tell the social, economic and cultural history of the city and its people.

Redman Design is creating several of the museum's galleries: People's City, Port City, Liverpool Overhead Railway, History Detectives and City Soldiers.

Key exhibits featuring in these galleries include Lion - an 1838 steam locomotive, an original third class railway carriage suspended above the gallery at its working height, and a model of the Catholic Cathedral by architect Edwin Lutyens.

For more on the project visit: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/