List of museums in Merseyside

This list of museums in Merseyside, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Name	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
British Lawnmower Museum	Southport	Sefton	Agriculture	website, vintage lawnmowers
Merseyside Fire Service Museum	Waterloo	Sefton	Firefightin	website, open by appointment
Merseyside Maritime Museum	Liverpool	Liverpool	Maritime	Shipping, trade, local ties to the RMS Titanic, RMS Lusitania and RMS Empress of Ireland, Battle of the Atlantic, life at sea, smuggling and contraband gallery
Museum of Liverpool	Liverpool	Liverpool	Multiple	New museum to opened in 2011, city's history, culture and social history, art, costumes, decorative art
North West Museum of Road Transport	St Helens	St Helens	Transportation	Vintage buses, also classic cars, trucks and fire engines
Prescot Museum	Prescot	Knowsley	Local	website, local history, culture, clock and watch making industry, pottery manufacture, cable making and mining
Shore Road Pumping Station	Birkenhead	Wirral	Technolog	Currently closed, Victorian pumping station with steam operated beam engine
Western Approaches - Liverpool War Museum	Liverpool	Liverpool	Military	Restored bunker of the major operational command of the Royal Navy during World War II
Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre	Liverpool	Liverpool	History	Early 19th century network of tunnels and exhibits about their builder
Wirral Transport Museum	Birkenhead	Wirral	Transportation	Displays of buses, trams, cars, motorbikes and motor accessories, and a model railway layout

Defunct museums[]

HM Customs & Excise National Museum, Liverpool, collections now a gallery in the Merseyside Maritime Museum
King's Regiment (Liverpool) Museum, Liverpool, formerly part of the Museum of Liverpool Life, closed in 2006, ^[1], will reopen as a gallery in the Museum of Liverpool
Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum, Liverpool, artifacts now in storage^[2]
Museum of Liverpool Life, Liverpool, collections moved to the Museum of Liverpool
Wirral Museum^[3], Birkenhead

References[]

↑ http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museums/0000000056-King-s-Regiment-Museum-Collection.htm King's Regiment Museum Collection, Army Museum Ogilby Trust, accessed 5/6/10
↑ http://www.liverpoolscottish.org.uk/ Liverpool Scottish Museum Trust, accessed 5/6/10
↑ http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100009/200070/1017/content_0000527.html Wirral Museum, "now closed to the public", public access by appointment only, Accessed 5/4/10

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[1] ttp://www.armymuseums.org.uk/museums/0000000056-King-s-Regiment-Museum-Collection.htm King's Regiment Museum Collection, Army Museum Ogilby Trust, accessed 5/6/10

[2] ttp://www.liverpoolscottish.org.uk/ Liverpool Scottish Museum Trust, accessed 5/6/10

[3] ttp://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100009/200070/1017/content_0000527.html Wirral Museum, "now closed to the public", public access by appointment only, Accessed 5/4/10

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