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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 ...
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 ...
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.
It's time to celebrate Easter and Spring in at the Museum of Liverpool! Join us to explore our Little Liverpool gallery with some added Spring crafts, activities and fun for those aged 0 - 5 years.
Amulet in the form of a lioness headed deity wearing a wig. Only the upper part survives. Could be Bast or Sekhmet. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Surface dirt.
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.
Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard and audio-visual artist and podcaster Olivia Graham explore The Holly Johnson Story at Museum of Liverpool.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...