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Museums long ago ceased to be stuffy
rooms full of glass cases containing bits of old pottery
and fossilised bones.
Today even most conventional
museums including displays which change but over recent
years there has been a growth in industrial and "living"
museums.
Here you can learn about local heritage, get a
feel for how people lived and worked, the hardships they
endured...
Galleries listed include not just civic
galleries displaying publicly owned artworks, but also
privately owned galleries with items for sale.
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Not all the
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Birthplace of the Beatles
20 Forthlin Road, Allerton, Liverpool, L24 1YP
Book morning tours: 0151 7088574
Afternoon tours: 0151 427 7231
Infoline: 0870 9000256
E-mail:
20forthlinroad@nationaltrust.org.uk
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Former home of the
McCartney family.
This 1950s terraced house is where the Beatles
met, rehearsed and wrote many of their
earliest songs.
Displays include contemporary photographs by
Michael McCartney and early Beatles
memorabilia.
The audio tour features contributions from
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20 Forthlin Road -
Photo:
Darrin Antrobus
CCL |
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Mendips
Woolton, Liverpool
Book morning tours: 0151 7088574
Afternoon tours: 0151 427 7231
Infoline: 0870 9000256
E-mail:
mendips@nationaltrust.org.uk
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Mendips -
Photo:
Alan Fairweather
CCL |
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Childhood home of John Lennon.
John Lennon lived at Mendips with his Aunt
Mimi and Uncle George.
This was where his passion for music began and
where some of his early songs were written.
The house evokes the time he spent here during
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The Beatles Story
Britannia Pavilion, Albert Dock, Liverpool,
Merseyside, L3 4AA
Tel: 0151 709 1963 Fax:
0151 708 0039
E-mail:
info@beatlesstory.com
Web:
www.beatlesstory.com
Liverpool's world famous, multi-award winning
Beatles Story experience.
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Rodney Street
The E. Chambré Hardman Studio, House &
Photographic Collection, Liverpool
Custodian: 0151 709 6107 Booking:
01704 224112
E-mail:
59rodneystreet@nationaltrust.org.uk
Georgian terraced house – the studio and home of
the photographer E. Chambré Hardman. The
significance of the house, situated just below
the Anglican Cathedral in the centre of
Liverpool, lies in the survival of the whole. It
contains an extensive collection of photographs
– over 142,000 images – the studio where most
were taken, the darkroom where they were
developed and printed, the business records and
the rooms where the photographer, Edward Chambré
Hardman, and his wife Margaret lived from 1948
to 1988, complete with all their contents and
ephemera of daily life. The subject matter of
the photographs – portraits of the people in
Liverpool, their city and the landscapes of the
surrounding countryside – provide a record of a
more prosperous time when Liverpool was the
gateway to the British Empire and the world.
Parallel to this is the quality of Hardman’s
work and his standing as a pictorial
photographer.
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Botanic Gardens Museum
Botanic Road, Churchtown, Southport, Merseyside,
PR9 7NB
Tel: 01704 227547 Fax:
01704 224112
E-mail:
atkinson.gallery@leisure.sefton.gov.uk
Web:
www.seftonarts.co.uk
Local history and natural history displays.
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Historic Warships
East Float, Dock Road, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41
1DJ
Tel: 0151 650 1573 Fax:
0151 650 1473
E-mail:
manager@historicwarships.org
Web:
www.historicwarships.org
Experience life was like aboard a famous
warships.
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Liverpool Museum
William Brown Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3
8EN
Tel: 0151 478 4393
Web:
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
One eight of a group of museums that form
England’s only national museums group based
entirely outside London.
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Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 4BB
Tel: 0151 702 7400 Fax:
0151 702 7401
E-mail:
liverpoolinfo@tate.org.uk
Web:
www.tate.org.uk
The UK's largest modern art gallery outside
London.
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Williamson Art Gallery
Slatey Road, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH43 4UE
Tel: 0151 652 4177
E-mail:
comments@wirral.gov.uk
Web:
www.wirral.gov.uk
Free admission to a world of Victorian oil
paintings, English watercolours, Liverpool
Porcelain, and DellaBir Robbia Potter.
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World of Glass
Chalon Way East, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10
1BX
Tel: 08700 11 44 66
E-mail:
info@worldofglass.com
Web:
www.worldofglass.com
Glassware, please check with the gallery for the
latest exhibition.
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