All National Museums Liverpool venues will be closed from 4pm on Wednesday 4 November 2020. The restrictions are expected to remain in place for at least a four-week period, until Wednesday 2 December. Please find out more and read our FAQs
on this page.
While our museums and galleries are closed, you can still engage with us online via our website and social media and view highlights from our digitised collections online.
Museum with a wide variety of collections including:
- 50,000 artefacts from across the ancient world including Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Anglo-Saxon.
- The herbarium currently contains around 400,000 specimens, the great majority being pressed dried mounted specimens.
- Ethnology collection ranking among the top six collections in the country and is made up of around 40,000 objects.
- Over 40,000 fossils as well as extensive rock and mineral collections.
- An extensive horology collections containing over 12,000 items and are of international significance.
- Physical collection containing several significant items from the Liverpool Royal Institution and Bidston Observatory.
- The zoology collection made up of around 1.2 million specimens of invertebrate and vertebrate animals.
World Museum is also a venue for
Meet Me At The Museum, a dementia-friendly drop-in sessions for older people.
- How can I access this service?
- Closed temporarily from 4 November 2020
- When is this service open?
- Closed temporarily from 4 November 2020
- How much will it cost me?
- Free entry
- Disabled access
- Wheelchairs are available to borrow. All toilets are wheelchair accessible. Limited number of blue badge parking spaces on William Brown Street, outside the museum. The road surface is cobbled.
- What groups of people is this for?
- The general public
- What age groups is this for?
- Any age
- What areas of the city is this for?
- People from anywhere in the city
Contacts
Liverpool World Museum, World Museum, , L3 8EN
- All Enquiries
- 0151 478 4393
