The International Slavery Museum is now open to the public. Based in the Merseyside Maritime Museum at Liverpool's Albert Dock, it explores both the historical and contemporary aspects of slavery. The museum addresses the many legacies of the slave trade and tells stories of bravery and rebellion amongst the enslaved people. These are stories which have been largely untold.

'Hello Sailor' - Gay life on the ocean waves.
Until mid January 2009 (closing date to be confirmed)
Hello Sailor! looks at life on board passenger and merchant ships from the 1950s to 1980s, a time when homosexuality was illegal and for gay men there were few places to be safe.

'Magical History Tour'
Until September 27 2009
Liverpool’s fascinating 800-year history from fishing village to Second City of the British Empire and into the modern era is explored in a major exhibition at Merseyside Maritime Museum.

New Museum of Liverpool is under construction

The new Museum of Liverpool will be one of the world’s leading city history museums, setting the global benchmark for museums of its kind and raising social history as a museum discipline to an international scale.

Featuring over 60 images from the archives of Stewart Bale Ltd, a photographic practice based in Liverpool, the display spans a period of great change for the city.

SEIZED! Revenue & Customs Uncovered
New gallery opens at Merseyside Maritime Museum

The Beatles! Backstage and Behind the Scenes at CBS!
April 4 to August 15 2008

The exhibition documents the whirlwind few months of 1964 when the Beatles took America by storm and changed pop music for ever.

BIG BANG!
27 June 2008 - 22 September 2008
Free entry

A ground-breaking experiment‚ which could unlock some of the biggest mysteries of the universe‚ is explored in 'BIG BANG! Celebrating the World’s Largest Physics Experiment'.

RESPECTacles
14 May 2008 - 17 August 2008

RESPECTacles is Liverpool's artistic response to the events of the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities, in particular to the images of the mounds of spectacles discovered in Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp on its liberation.

The moving exhibition was first succesfully held at Liverpool Town Hall earlier this year to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

The Beat Goes On
12 July 2008 to 1 November 2009

From The Beatles to The Zutons, Liverpool is a city buzzing with musical talent and The Beat Goes On will be a celebration of Liverpool’s edginess, energy and creativity.