Back on the 30th April 2007, work started on construction of the new Museum of Liverpool, which replaces the former Museum of Liverpool Life to provide more floor space for the 300,000+ visitors that passed through its door every year.
Now, nearly three years on, the museum construction is entering its final stages, with a planned opening in 2011.
Representing the history and culture of the city, the Museum of Liverpool aims to raise the social history museum concept to an international level.
Being the birthplace of The Beatles, it will inevitable have a popular culture twist to it, but social, historical and contemporary issues will also play a big role in the future of the new museum.
It will also create the space to house the National Museum Liverpool’s collection, which is currently in storage, as well as being the largest newly built museum in the UK in the last hundred years.
The Museum of Liverpool will be free to visitors, building on Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2008, containing more than 6,000 objects. One of them had better be a yellow submarine. That’s all I’m saying.
