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World Museum Liverpool

Description: Address: William Brown Street / Liverpool / L3 8EN / England / Telephone: 0151 478 4393 / Browse through the extensive ... more

World Museum Liverpool ... collections covering archaeology, ethnology and the natural and physical sciences.

Newest Review: ... inserting 'World' adds to its reinvention. Can't fool me that easily, but the effort was there. What's there? ----------------- Inside the Museum now boasts a new lobby with slate floors and a dangling pterodactyl or some such fossil. Glass walls and see-through lifts give it a modern and airy feel and the effort has been worth it. It rivals bigger cousins in capitals around the world. ... more

... Nearly. You see, there isn't much there really. That's its problem. To emphasis it, I can summarise in a couple of lines Space and Time on the top floor - mostly clocks, a rocket and CD-ROM based info screens. Oh and the planetarium - more in a mo. Dinos...more

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World Museum Liverpool: Liverpool Museum World thingy (780 words)
by hillcrestsan - written on 07/03/08 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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Liverpool Museum has gone through a bit of a recent renaissance. It was an integral part of my youth, like the occasional trip on the ferry across the Mersey. Something slightly grotty but 'Liverpoolish' about it. I could include graffiti and head-butting in the same sentence but Liverpudlians start moaning and going on about its lack of accuracy on the grounds that there were once about 5 kids who didn't graffiti and headbutt. To be fair, Liverpools changed a lot in the last 30 years but can't quite shake of its grimy port image. The Liverpool museum and the adjacent art gallery, along with St Georges Hall across the gardens were the few buildings in ...

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