Qualla: World Museum https://qualla.com/world-museum 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/world-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: World Museum https://qualla.com/world-museum World Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/world-museum/ Photo credit Beno1000, CC BY 2.5. Stand in the central atrium of the World Museum and you can see six floors stacked on top of each other: live insects below, ancient Egypt above, a planetarium higher still, dinosaurs and meteorites and Aztec codices arranged around a sky-lit well that climbs to the roof. The museum on William Brown Street started in 1851 with one man's natural history collection and now houses one of the great municipal collections in England - approximately 15,000 Egyptian antiquities, a top-six ethnological collection in the country, more than 40,000 fossils, and the only known specimen of a bird called the Liverpool pigeon. Entry is free.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/world-museum-wp/gcmz-world-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full World Museum: The Earl's Animals https://qualla.com/world-museum/ Photo credit John Bradley, CC BY-SA 3.0. The museum began with the natural history collection of Edward Smith-Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby - a man who kept the largest private menagerie in Britain at his Knowsley estate east of Liverpool. When Stanley died in 1851 he left the collection to the town: 20,000 birds, mam...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/world-museum-wp/gcmz-world-museum-the-earls-animals.mp3 0:06 2 full World Museum: The Mayer Egyptians https://qualla.com/world-museum/ Photo credit Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1867 a Liverpool goldsmith and antiquarian named Joseph Mayer donated over 5,000 Egyptian antiquities to the museum. Mayer had bought up pieces from the great early-nineteenth-century Egypt collectors - Henry Salt, Joseph Sams, Lord Valentia, Bram Hertz - and displayed them in...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/world-museum-wp/gcmz-world-museum-the-mayer-egyptians.mp3 0:06 3 full World Museum: The Night the Bomb Fell https://qualla.com/world-museum/ Photo credit The original uploader was Chowells at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. In May 1941, at the height of the Liverpool Blitz, an incendiary bomb fell on the museum. The building burned to a shell. The Egyptian galleries, the physical sciences gallery, the gallery of economic botany, almost all of it - gone. Not everything was lost. Large parts of the co...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/world-museum-wp/gcmz-world-museum-the-night-the-bomb-fell.mp3 0:06 4 full World Museum: Bug House, Planetarium, and the Last Liverpool Pigeon https://qualla.com/world-museum/ Photo credit User:Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0. The current World Museum is designed to be navigated by children. The Bug House - opened during the 2005 refurbishment - displays living colonies of leaf-cutter ants, scorpions, and tarantulas under glass. The Weston Discovery Centre lets visitors handle natural-history specimens...

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