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International Slavery Museum - Permanent Exhibition

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image Setting the truth free

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.

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Slavery Museum - Beyond the Boundary

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Viv-Richards-100Beyond The Boundary. 19 March 2010 - 13 February 2011. Exhibition explores cricket, culture, class and politics.
Beyond the Boundary is an exhibition of powerful and emotive photographs exploring aspects of cricket that have not been seen before. Beyond the Boundary explores the relationship between cricket, culture, class and politics and how it can be seen as a legacy of British imperialism and colonialism and, paradoxically, as a means of resistance against it.

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Maritime Museum - Shackleton's Antarctic adventure

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shackleton-endurance-composite-100Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic adventure
16 July 2010 - 3 January 2011

The epic story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition is an incredible real life tale of survival.
The exhibition features about 150 compelling photographs of the expedition's ordeal taken by ship photographer Frank Hurley
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Museum of Liverpool - Being Built

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image liverpool museumNew 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.

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National Conservation Centre - Art Merseyside

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conservation-centre-logo-100Art Merseyside
24 September 2010 - 16 January 2011
An exhibition showcasing the best artworks from the open exhibitions held throughout 2010 in the Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and Halton boroughs. This exhibition has been developed by galleries outside Liverpool (a grouping of the arts development and gallery officers from the five boroughs).
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Beatles Story Pier Head - White Feather: The Spirit of Lennon

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imageWhite Feather: The Spirit of Lennon
17 June 2009 - End of 2010 (EXTENDED)
Julian and Cynthia Lennon, in association with the Beatles Story, present the world premiere of White Feather: The Spirit of Lennon - a stunning immersive experience of a family story backed by previously unshared personal possessions.  Personal and intimate new exhibition will portray the emotional stories of the family of one of the world’s most iconic figures. 
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World Museum - Ancient Egypt

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image New Ancient Egypt Gallery now open

In the Ancient Egypt gallery at World Museum Liverpool you can journey back to the incredible world of the Pharaohs and discover the remarkable civilisation that built the Pyramids and the Sphinx.

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World Museum Liverpool - Plantastic!

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plantastic-100Plantastic!
13 February - 5 September 2010

This fun interactive science exhibition reveals the wonderful world of plants and shows how they interact with people, animals, insects and each other. The exhibition explains how we use plants in our daily lives often without realising it, and how they are essential for the world’s survival. Free entry
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