Liverpool museums – Current exhibitions at World Museum Liverpool.
This short exhibition also ends on Sunday 1 November 2009.
Threads of Life – quilts and arpilleras that speak out
17 October 2009 – 1 November 2009
To celebrate the Guinness Liverpool Irish Festival, we will be hosting this beautiful exhibition of textiles, brought together by curator Roberta Bacic. The pieces were created by a variety of community groups and individuals, who have used their craft to express their thoughts and feelings.
The exhibition comprises a number of traditionally crafted quilts from Ireland and England, covering topics such as community, daily life and family. Some of these pieces were created by women directly affected during the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and demonstrate both their feelings of loss and their hope for peace within their community.
The exhibition also contains a selection of arpilleras (pronounced “ar-pee-air-ahs”); three-dimensional appliqué textiles from Latin America. The pieces here on display are from Chile and Peru, with most of the Chilean pieces coming from the times of the country’s dictatorship (1973 – 1990.) Many of these textiles depict the experiences of people living during that difficult time and reflect their determination and courage.
For an extensive archive on this subject, visit www.cain.ulst.ac.uk/quilts
The Guinness Liverpool Irish Festival runs from 16 October – 1 November 2009. For more information about events throughout the city visit the Liverpool Irish Festival website.
Photos by Colin Peck and Martin Melaugh
Should be interesting…
Thursday 15 October 2009 18.30 – 21.00
Blank Slate B3 Media Night
World Museum Liverpool – Treasure House Theatre, level 1
Blank Slate is a UK-wide digital short film scheme nurturing the next generation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic filmmaking talent.
Want to get involved?
Enjoy the screenings then meet the organisers and find out all you need to know.
Over 18s.
To book email
sam.turner@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
This excellent Liverpool music exhibition ends on November 1st, we must go and see it again.
THE BEAT GOES ON
…for one more month!
One of Liverpool’s most popular attractions born out of the city’s Capital of Culture year, is drawing to a close at World Museum.
From the Beatles to the Zutons, the 40s to the present day, Liverpool continues to be a top 10 hit and The Beat Goes On exhibition which runs until 1 November 2009, has been wowing visitors with an unforgettable experience throughout its 16 month run.
About half a million people have visited The Beat Goes On since it opened in July 2008, and with the closing date just around the corner visitors only have one month left to come along and sample the city’s musical delights.
The first exhibition of its kind to explore the city’s musical identity in its entirety, The Beat Goes On displays hoards of memorabilia to reveal a rich musical heritage and vibrant music scene which continues to produce success stories and leave its mark across the globe. Continue reading ‘Last Chance to See The Beat Goes On’
Mike McCartney was at the Beat Goes On exhibition in the World Museum Liverpool today to launch his ‘mini ’60s’ show of 4 of his photographs. There’s 2 pictures of his brother Paul McCartney with John Lennon rehearsing in the Cavern and 2 pictures of Mike’s own group the Scaffold. These and some others from Mike’s collection will be moving onto the new Museum of Liverpool when it opens in late 2010.
Liverpool museums – Escape from the mummy’s tomb! | Egypt game | World Museum Liverpool.
I can never be bothered with games so haven’t gone beyond the first page but here’s something to pass the time, especially for the kids apparently.
An exciting new game on the National Museums Liverpool web site gives players the opportunity to see if they are expert Ancient Egypt explorers.
At first Escape from the Mummy’s Tomb! may seem easy but there’s a catch … players have to watch out for a scary mummy on the loose.
Contestants help to unlock the mysteries of Ancient Egypt after discovering the tomb in Beni Hasan. Inside are nine incredible objects that are thousands of years old.
Escape from the Mummy’s Tomb! is inspired by the fascinating new Ancient Egypt gallery at World Museum Liverpool featuring 1,500 exhibits from the museum’s world-class collections.
The new ancient Egypt section opened at the World Museum on Friday and, no doubt, will be very popular with the public. Apart from all the mummies and coffins there are some excellent displays of smaller items of jewellery, pottery, ornaments etc. Amazing how well the vibrant colours have lasted for thousands of years.
Pictured here is the curator, Ashley Cooke, standing between the base and top of one of the coffins – a clever idea, I certainly had a go at that. Continue reading ‘New Egypt Gallery at World Museum Liverpool’
Yes, I know. Just like looking in a mirror isn’t it? Not for me though, obviously, as I had a shave this morning and anyway this is a female chimpanzee. One of 30 large (2 metre high) photographs of apes in the World Museum Liverpool titled ‘Face to Face’ by the artist and photographer James Mollison. They are in the large room on the 2nd floor.
They are mainly orphans, victims of the illicit trades in ‘bushmeat’ and live animals. Many were suffering physical and emotional trauma when they were rescued.
There are Bonobos, Chimpanzees, Gorillas and OrangUtans, all very human-like and similar but with their own characteristics. I must admit I got a bit tired as I moved on to see more and more of these giant passport style photos staring at me. But interesting none-the-less.
At World Museum until March 26th 2006
I went to the World Museum Liverpool today to meet Barbara Hind who’s photographs of Buddhists and worshippers in Mongolia are on show.
Originally from Knotty Ash, Barbara visited Mongolia 16 times between 1994 and 2001. The result of her extensive travelling is a group of photographs, providing an intimate portrayal of everyday life for Mongolian Buddhists.
Mongolia suffered under Stalinist repression in the 1930s when 20,000 Buddhists were killed and 500 temples destroyed. Buddhism only started being openly practiced again in 1991.
The photographs, which are rich in colour and texture, include scenes of monk ordination, the call to morning worship and Tibetan language classes. These wonderful depictions of daily routines avoid any kind of posed or clichéd shots. Instead Barbara has created images that show enormous respect for the people who are her subjects as well as a gripping insight into an intriguing culture.
The photographs from Mongolian Buddhism have previously been on show at the National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaanbaatar in 2001, where Barbara became the first westerner to be invited to display her work. This unique exhibition provided the local people, whose lives Barbara had documented, the chance to see the photographs for themselves. They have also been exhibited in Japan and Canada and will, no doubt, go on to several other places.
Barbara says: “The Mongolian Buddhist images have grown out of my personal association with the monasteries and nunneries I have visited.
Through my photographs I try not only to represent my own experience of seeing other people’s worlds but to also try and evoke the people’s experience in those worlds”.
The exhibition is in a separate room on the 2nd floor and runs until October 2nd.
Visitors to Mongolian Buddhism can also see World Museum Liverpool’s own comprehensive display of Buddhist artefacts from Asia in the World Cultures gallery, which includes an evocative Tibetan Buddhist shrine.
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