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Welcome to the first Museum of Liverpool e-newsletter designed to keep you up-to-date with news about the UK’s largest national museum project.
Opening in 2010, the £72m Museum of Liverpool is on track and looking great. We’ve had a brilliant reaction to the building from people in the city and further afield.
It was an eventful start to 2009 when the Museum of Liverpool team welcomed Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the waterfront site. Accompanied by Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Andy Burnham, Minister for Children, Young People and Families Beverley Hughes and Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman, the PM looked around the building and heard about some of the remarkable objects going on display.
Also part of the welcoming committee were young people from the Portrait of a Nation project and the museum’s youth champions. Read our blog.
Building takes shape
Over the last year the Museum of Liverpool has risen from its muddy foundations to become a spectacular addition to the city’s waterfront. Building progress is on schedule and the beautiful Jura limestone cladding is almost complete.
The glazing is now installed including two huge picture windows, measuring 28 metres across, at either end of the building. The north window was used as a giant projection screen for the Transition event marking the end of Liverpool's reign as European Capital of Culture.
The completed building will be handed over to us later in the year to fit out the displays – although some of our larger objects like the Liverpool Overhead Railway carriage will need to move in before the building is finished!
Find out about the museum’s construction on The building page and view images on our Building the Museum of Liverpool flickr group page.
It’s your museum
During the development of the project we have consulted with more than 10,000 people to develop the displays in the Museum of Liverpool, and to make sure they reflect the aspirations of local people.
We have run public update sessions, evening debates, and we hold workshops for community and special interest groups where you can meet the content team and contribute your ideas.
We are setting up a new stakeholder group for teachers which will meet every six–eight weeks and cover all key stages of formal learning.
Find out how to get involved on our community engagement programme web page.
Access to Heritage tactile maps
We have been consulting Access to Heritage, one of the groups supporting the Museum of Liverpool, to make sure the museum is accessible to everyone.
The group’s involvement has been fundamental in developing tactile maps depicting the buildings that can be seen from the museum’s windows.
A prototype has recently been shared with designers.
Image: Access to Heritage group work on models for tactile map
Event - China at Home open day
Do you have Chinese style in your home?
We would like to invite you to bring objects made in China that you have on display in your home to an open day on Wednesday 4 March from 2-4pm at the Weston Discovery Centre in World Museum Liverpool.
The open day forms part of a research programme we are running to inform a Museum of Liverpool exhibition about China, Shanghai and Liverpool which will focus on Liverpool’s dynamic relationship with China over the years. It will form the centrepiece of the museum’s Global City gallery. Find out more on our China at Home web page.
Image: 19th century Chinese cup and saucer featuring European figures
Our City
Our City is one of our community-led projects, developed to create images for a digital map that will feature in the History Detectives gallery of the Museum of Liverpool.
Get involved by submitting your details and images of places on Merseyside that you think are notable, special or unique. Find out how to take part on the Our City web page or view the work done so far on the Our City flickr group map.
Image: ‘Cakes Galore’ special place submitted by Devan
Do you remember the Fazakerley Post Box?
The Fazakerley Post Box is one of the many objects that will be on display in the People’s City gallery.
We would like to invite anyone who remembers this child-sized post box from Fazakerley Cottage Homes to
contact our Curator, Kay Jones. To find out more go to our appeal for post box information page.
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