Museum of Liverpool

The Museum of Liverpool is one of the group of national museums in the city that includes the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum. It covers topics from prehistoric archaeology to The Beatles. It opened on the historic waterfront as the Museum of Liverpool Life in 1993 and moved in 2011 to a new building conceived by the Danish architects 3XN. The ground-floor displays focus on the industrial revolution and the commercial impact of empire. The collections related to transport range from handcarts and cranes used in the docks to the Lion steam locomotive built in Leeds in 1838 for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Public transport is represented by vehicles from the Liverpool underground, the overhead railway that served the docks and the street tram system. Cars manufactured at Liverpool include a Liver Phaeton made by William Lea in 1900 and a 1963 Ford Anglia. The social history collections include many objects related to working life in the port and its industries.