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This is probably the final exhibition at the National Conservation Centre and has been cut short as National Museums Liverpool restructure to cope with the recently announced cuts in funding. There have been many excellent exhibitions here in recent years, [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-18. ‘New Romantics in Cagney’s Club’ 1981 photograph by Francesco Mellina in ‘Sound and Vision’ Conservation Centre 1 May – 31 August 2009 Atmospheric images of Liverpool’s youthful and exhilarating post-punk era feature in this [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-24. Lewis’s 5th Floor: A Department Story by Stephen King at the National Conservation Centre, 26 February – 30 August 2010 One of my favourite’s from the excellent exhibition of photographs of the deserted 5th [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-37. ‘Old Lady by Candlelight’ photograph by Stephen Shakeshaft ‘Liverpool People’ at the Conservation Centre 18 September 2009 – 24 January 2010. One of about 70 wonderful photographs of Liverpool people taken by the former [...]
A great shame. The National Conservation Centre has hosted many excellent exhibitions, mainly photography ones which would otherwise have struggled to find a venue as well as the recent Art Merseywide art exhibition (which closes on Sunday 12 Dec). Good [...]
Several big exhibitions end this week, don’t miss this one. Doors close on Lewis’s Fifth Floor Farewell to Lewis’s event to be held on Sunday 29 August 2010 Following the closure of Liverpool’s oldest department store at the end of [...]
A storey of photography Liverpool photographer’s first solo exhibition reveals secrets and hidden iconic design of city store A new exhibition featuring images taken in Liverpool’s oldest department store Lewis’s, opens this Friday 26 February 2010 at the National Conservation [...]
Competition winners see their picture hung in gallery Competition winners Abby Hewitson and Laura Johnson today saw a picture of themselves hung in the National Conservation Centre, making them part of the exhibition Sound and Vision: Music and Fashion photographed [...]
Sound and Vision – Music and fashion photographed by Francesco Mellina, Liverpool, 1978-82 National Conservation Centre 1 May to 31 August 2009 Free admission This exhibition of some 60 photographs is a great snapshot of the Liverpool club scene and [...]
The photographer Francesco Mellina gave another talk about his exhibition at the Conservation Centre last week and many of the people who featured in the photographs came along. Including these four former New Romantics who Francesco snapped in Cagney’s in [...]
Stephen Shakeshaft on becoming a trainee photographer from National Museums Liverpool on Vimeo. This is an excellent exhibition of photographs by the former picture editor of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. When you go to see it (which you [...]
Events & activities at National Museums Liverpool. In this informal talk Arnold Lewis of the Jewish Historical Society will tell you all about the history of Liverpool’s oldest department store. Date: Thursday 4 March 2010 Time: 12noon Venue: National Conservation [...]
The gallery at the National Conservation Centre closed at the end of 2010 but the great conservation work continues and earlier this week they took delivery of this delightful watercolour sketch by James Tissot. After being cleaned up, remounted and [...]
Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2004) at the Conservation Centre until September 18th 2005. The international competition, organised by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine aims to reward the best wildlife photographers from across the world. Their photographs [...]
