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Spend time together as a family this Easter getting creative and making memories - as well as something special to take home with you. Join our team of creative facilitators during the spring school ...
Through a series of events, the Museum of Liverpool is looking to explore what makes Liverpool a ‘global city’ and how its history and culture have been shaped by, and continue to influence, the world ...
Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard and audio-visual artist and podcaster Olivia Graham explore The Holly Johnson Story at Museum of Liverpool.
This episode explores Homotopia, the UK’s longest-running LGBTQIA arts and cultural festival, which champions queer visibility, creativity, and community. Guests include Bev Ayre, Danny Kilbride, Joan ...
Modern impression of the underside of a heart scarab The impression is of a hieroglyphic text (9 lines) written very small, painted over with red colour. Other side is plain. Broken into seven pieces.
The Adoration of the Magi (or kings) was a popular religious subject showing the magi bringing gifts to the newborn Jesus. This painting shows the Holy Family in a grand architectural setting, rather ...
Get (really, really) close to our collections as we celebrate the marvellous Microscope on the 12th of April 2025. Join us in the Clore Natural History Exploration space (on Level 2) from 10:30 – 3:30 ...
The herbarium contains around 98% of the British and Irish native flora and covers a time-span of over two hundred years. It includes the collections from J. H. Balfour (1808-1884) and G. C. Druce ...
Forgery of a stela with low relief decoration including hieroglyphs within cartouches. The plaque imitates an Egyptian stela: at the top is a 'cavetto'-cornice with the palm-fronds marked in fine ...
A. & R. Brown Ltd (later Archibald Brown Ltd) of 18-22 Porter Street, Liverpool, specialised in carrying out coppersmithing and brass founding for a wide range of industrial plant including sugar ...
Take a look at each of the key characteristics that define the Art Deco movement, with some stunning examples from National Museums Liverpool’s Decorative Art collection.
The Huxley Hoard is a collection of Viking silver that was buried for safekeeping, but was never retrieved. The 21 bracelets and one ingot were discovered near Huxley in Cheshire in 2004. The hoard is ...