The Museum of Liverpool Life was a

Museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

, part of National Museums Liverpool, that focused on the contribution that the people of Liverpool made to national life. It closed in 2005 and was replaced by the Museum of Liverpool, which opened on 19 July 2011 and houses most of the original museum's exhibits.

Exhibitions

At the time of its closure on 4 June 2006, the museum had three galleries: ''City Lives'' explored

's cultural diversity, ''The River Room'' described life alongside the

River Mersey The River Mersey () is in North West England. Its name derives from Old English and means "boundary river", possibly referring to its having been a border between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. For centuries it has formed part ...

and ''City Soldiers'' was an exhibition about the King's Regiment. Previous exhibitions had been ''Mersey Culture, from Brookside to the Grand National'', ''Making a Living'' and ''Demanding a Voice''.

External links

Liverpool Museums
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