National Museums Liverpool news

National Museums Liverpool has received planning approval to redevelop the International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum into one museum telling Britain’s maritime history and its ... More

Sir Nick Varney has been revealed as the headline speaker at this year's VAC. Taking place on 5 October at the QEII Centre in London, ... More

The winners of this year's Museums + Heritage Awards have been revealed, with the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World ... More

Adjaye Associates and Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) have been named as the preferred bidders to lead the design of a £57m redevelopment of the International ... More

British architecture firm Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) have won a competition to draft a master plan for Liverpool's historic waterfront district. Situated in the ... More

The winners of the Museums + Heritage Awards were announced in London last night (15 May), with museums large and small being honoured and Sir ... More

In a year of ups, downs, loops and scoops, Attractions Management looks back at some of the biggest stories to hit the headlines, giving possible ... More

The famed Terracotta Warriors, which were on show at the World Museum Liverpool, generated £78m (US$99.9m, €87.8m) towards the local economy during their eight-month stay ... More

Laura Pye has been named director of National Museums Liverpool (NML), with the current head of culture for Bristol City Council to take up her ... More

The winners of this year’s Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence have been announced, with shortlisted projects celebrated and recognised across the museums, galleries, heritage ... More

A highly anticipated exhibition of Terracotta Warriors, carefully transported from China’s Shaanxi Province, will launch in Liverpool this Friday (9 February). The 2,000-year-old treasures, which ... More

The Museums Association (MA) has named Maggie Appleton as its new president, with the RAF Museum CEO set to take up the role in April. ... More

The winners of this year’s Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence have been announced, with shortlisted projects celebrated and recognised across the museums, galleries, heritage ... More

A pilot programme by National Museums Liverpool (NML) created to improve dementia care will soon be rolled out across the UK after great success during ... More

David Fleming, director of National Museums Liverpool (NML), has said that modern museums need to act as “agents of social change”, evolving from their more ... More

MuseumNext has unveiled its lineup of speakers and events for its annual European conference, this year taking place across Dublin, Ireland. Starting on Monday 18 ... More

The University of Leicester in the UK has unveiled what will be the world’s first Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) related to museum studies. Working ... More

The £72m Museum of Liverpool, which opened in July, has revealed that it will open its new ground floor Great Port area and a first ... More

National Museums Liverpool (NML) has launched the new £72m Museum of Liverpool - one of the largest new-build museum developments in the UK for more ... More

The new £72m Museum of Liverpool - one of the largest museums to be created in the UK for more than 100 years - is ... More

The opening of the new £72m, 3xN-designed Museum of Liverpool - scheduled for the spring of this year - has been delayed until July. The ... More

Liverpool's National Conservation Centre will close its doors to the public on 17 December as a result of government spending cuts, it has been announced. ... More

Figures released by the National Museum Directors' Conference show that this summer saw a record number of visitors to the UK's national museums. More than ... More