Qualla: Museum of Liverpool https://qualla.com/museum-of-liverpool en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/museum-of-liverpool-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Museum of Liverpool https://qualla.com/museum-of-liverpool Museum of Liverpool: Introduction https://qualla.com/museum-of-liverpool/ Photo credit Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0. On a Tuesday morning when the museum is quiet, you can stand on the upper gallery floor and look out through Buro Happold's vast cantilevered window at the Three Graces and the Mersey, and behind you, on a plinth, is a steam locomotive built in 1838. The Lion is one of the oldest surviving steam locomotives in the world. She starred in the 1953 Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt. The museum she lives in opened in 2011, built on a vacant site at Mann Island for £72 million by the Danish architects 3XN, and tells the story of Liverpool through 6,000 objects spread across 8,000 square metres of exhibition space. The building has been called many things since it opened -- some of them rude -- but inside, the city's history is laid out with genuine love.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/museum-of-liverpool-wp/gcmz-museum-of-liverpool-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Museum of Liverpool: Mann Island https://qualla.com/museum-of-liverpool/ Photo credit Guillaume Baviere from Uppsala, Sweden, CC BY 2.0. Mann Island sits at Pier Head, between the Royal Liver Building and the Albert Dock, on ground reclaimed when the original tidal inlet called the Pool was filled in during the eighteenth century. By the late twentieth century it was a wasted strip of car parks and access roads at...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/museum-of-liverpool-wp/gcmz-museum-of-liverpool-mann-island.mp3 0:06 2 full Museum of Liverpool: Four Themes https://qualla.com/museum-of-liverpool/ Photo credit Julius (User:Juliux), CC BY-SA 3.0. The permanent collection is organised around four core themes. The Great Port tells the story of how the Mersey estuary became one of the world's busiest trading harbours, from the small medieval borough King John chartered in 1207 to the era of the Cunarders and the container te...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/museum-of-liverpool-wp/gcmz-museum-of-liverpool-four-themes.mp3 0:06 3 full Museum of Liverpool: The Memorial and the Murder https://qualla.com/museum-of-liverpool/ Photo credit Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0. The People's Republic gallery contains harder material. The Hillsborough memorial — a permanent installation honouring the 97 Liverpool fans who died in the crush at the FA Cup semi-final on 15 April 1989 — was unveiled here in 2011 and has become a place of quiet pilgrimage. The...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/museum-of-liverpool-wp/gcmz-museum-of-liverpool-the-memorial-and-the-murder.mp3 0:06 4 full Museum of Liverpool: Lennon's Glasses, Yoko's Tribute https://qualla.com/museum-of-liverpool/ Photo credit Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Beatles material is unavoidable and the museum handles it with the right amount of pride. John Lennon's spectacles, his school report card, his original lyrics to several songs, are on display in the Wondrous Place gallery. Paul McCartney's piano is here. There are stage outf...

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