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Can we afford Liverpool's cultural heritage? 4 Jul 2013 | 06:52 pm
Pier Head, part of Liverpool's UNESCO World Heritage Site I have been working this week on a Report for the Mayor of Liverpool, Cllr Joe Anderson, on the city’s cultural heritage – the nature of it, ...
Liberty scarf from the QE2 2 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
Scarf, accession number MMM.2007.24 Here's a sneaky preview of a new display at Merseyside Maritime Museum, from Head of Organics Conservation, Tracey Seddon: As we have no textile conservators I ge...
Should we charge international visitors? 28 Jun 2013 | 07:50 pm
Simon and I being filmed for The One Show Simon Calder, the travel writer and broadcaster, interviewed me for The One Show last week because of the growing public interest in the impact cuts in gover...
Mi Smarthouse at Museum of Liverpool 28 Jun 2013 | 02:15 pm
The Mi Smarthouse kitchen is full of fantastic gadgets Have you ever locked yourself out of the house because you forgot your key? What about leaving the bath running and flooding the bathroom, or ....
Triumph of Fortitude 27 Jun 2013 | 06:19 pm
Here's an update from Tracey Seddon, Head of Organics Conservation: This is my first blog for a good while so I should introduce myself. I am Tracey Seddon, Head of Organics Conservation for National...
High Seas not SW19 26 Jun 2013 | 06:46 pm
A game of deck tennis on board Araguaya, Royal Mail Line, 1924 (MAL reference DX/1201) Well it's not quite the green grass of Wimbledon, but a lack of space isn't going to put off these tennis player...
Pre-Raphaelite Festival 24 Jun 2013 | 08:59 pm
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 'Dante's Dream', Rossetti, 1871 With 'The Drawing of Edward Burne-Jones' now open at the Lady Lever Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite art is some ...
Do you remember Liverpool’s courts? 21 Jun 2013 | 07:28 pm
Copyright Mark McNulty Liz Stewart, exhibition curator for archaeology and historic environment at the Museum of Liverpool, would like to hear from anyone who can remember what Liverpool's court hous...
Talking the talk, walking the walk 14 Jun 2013 | 09:29 pm
2013 Walk for Freedom Hello, It has been a varied month since my last blog. It was a pleasure welcoming Garvin Nicholas, the High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago at the end of May for a tour o...
Two tonnes of pots to wash 11 Jun 2013 | 08:01 pm
Volunteers who helped wash two tonnes of excavated pottery. At the end of March, the Museum of Liverpool’s Field Archaeology Unit spent two weeks excavating a site in Rainford. Rainford Tennis Club, ...
