title: List of museums in Merseyside
text: # 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.
  
  To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.
  
  ## Museums
  
  | Name | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 20 Forthlin Road | Allerton | Liverpool | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, childhood home of Paul McCartney, part of the Beatles' Childhood Homes tour |
  | The Atkinson | Southport | Sefton | Multiple | Regional cultural centre for arts and cultural entertainment, includes art, local history, Egyptology and decorative art collections from the Botanic Gardens Museum and Bootle Free Library and Museum |
  | The Beatles Story | Liverpool | Liverpool | Music | Exhibition and museum dedicated to the leading 1960s group The Beatles |
  | Birkenhead Priory and St Mary's Tower | Birkenhead | Wirral | Religious | Remains and exhibits about the medieval priory |
  | Bluecoat Chambers | Liverpool | Liverpool | Art | Arts centres with exhibit galleries |
  | British Lawnmower Museum | Southport | Sefton | Agriculture | Vintage lawnmowers |
  | Croxteth Hall | Liverpool | Liverpool | Historic house | 16th century country house with Edwardian period rooms, Victorian period farm and walled garden |
  | Fort Perch Rock | New Brighton | Wirral | Multiple | Exhibits include maritime displays, military aviation, and merchant marine radio and wireless |
  | Foundation for Art and Creative Technology | Liverpool | Liverpool | Art | Arts centre for film, video and new and emerging media |
  | Garstang Museum of Archaeology | Liverpool | Liverpool | Archaeology | website, part of the University of Liverpool, artifacts from Ancient Egypt, Sudan and the Levant |
  | The Hardmans' House | Liverpool | Liverpool | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, home of photographer E. Chambré Hardman, features portraits of the people of Liverpool, the city and the landscapes of the surrounding countryside |
  | International Slavery Museum | Liverpool | Liverpool | History | History and legacy of transatlantic slavery and its contemporary relevance, located on the third floor of the building housing the Merseyside Maritime Museum |
  | Lady Lever Art Gallery | Port Sunlight | Wirral | Art | Collection includes British 18th century and 19th century paintings, 18th century furniture and Wedgwood |
  | Leasowe Lighthouse | | | |
  | Liverpool Cathedral | Liverpool | Liverpool | Religious | Includes 3-D film and interactive displays about the cathedral's architecture, history and art, its people and purpose; historic artifacts, tours of the tower and a collection of Victorian and Edwardian ecclesiastical embroidery |
  | Mendips | Liverpool | Liverpool | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 1950s period childhood house of singer/composer John Lennon of The Beatles, part of the Beatles' Childhood Homes tour |
  | Merseyside Fire Service Heritage and Education Centre | Bootle | Sefton | Firefighting | website |
  | 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, Seized! The Border and Customs uncovered |
  | Museum of Liverpool | Liverpool | Liverpool | Multiple | 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 |
  | The Oratory | Liverpool | Liverpool | Art | 19th century sculpture and funeral monuments of notable citizens, part of the Walker Art Gallery |
  | Port Sunlight Museum & Garden Village | Port Sunlight | Wirral | History | website, history of the model village built in 1888 by William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme |
  | Prescot Museum | Prescot | Knowsley | Local | website, local history, culture, clock and watch making industry, pottery manufacture, cable making and mining |
  | Smithy Heritage Centre | Eccleston | St Helens | Local | website, local history |
  | Spaceport | Seacombe | Wirral | Science | Space and space travel |
  | Speke Hall | Liverpool | Liverpool | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, black and white wood-framed Tudor manor house with Victorian rooms |
  | St. George's Hall | Liverpool | Liverpool | History | History and tours of the hall, its prison, refurbished criminal court and judge's robing room, gallery for local art and culture displays |
  | Sudley House | Aigburth | Liverpool | Art | Victorian historic house museum with art gallery |
  | Tate Hall Museum | Liverpool | Liverpool | Multiple | Part of the University of Liverpool, exhibit topics include zoology, medicine, dentistry, archaeology, engineering and oceanography |
  | Tate Liverpool | Liverpool | Liverpool | Art | Modern and contemporary art |
  | U-boat Story | Birkenhead | Wirral | Maritime | Recovered German World War II submarine and artifacts including an Enigma machine |
  | Victoria Gallery & Museum | Liverpool | Liverpool | Art | Part of the University of Liverpool, paintings, sculptures and ceramics |
  | Walker Art Gallery | Liverpool | Liverpool | Art | Collections include Italian and Netherlandish paintings from 1300 to 1550, European art from 1550 to 1900. 18th and 19th century British art, prints, drawings and watercolours, 20th century works and sculpture |
  | Western Approaches - Liverpool War Museum | Liverpool | Liverpool | Military | Restored bunker of the major operational command of the Royal Navy during World War II |
  | Williamson Art Gallery and Museum | Birkenhead | Wirral | Art | Collections include Victorian oil paintings, English watercolours, Liverpool porcelain and Della Robbia Pottery, ship models, local history |
  | 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 |
  | World Museum | Liverpool | Liverpool | Multiple | Archaeology, ethnology, natural history, geology and fossils, Ancient Egypt, space, science, coins |
  | World of Glass (St Helens) | St Helens | St Helens | Art | website, exhibits of historic and contemporary glass art, glass-making industry and history, glassblowing |
  
  ## Defunct museums
  
  * Bootle Free Library and Museum, collections now part of The Atkinson
  * Cavern Mecca, closed in 1984
  * Botanic Gardens Museum, collections now part of The Atkinson
  * 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, will reopen as a gallery in the Museum of Liverpool
  * Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum, Liverpool, artifacts now in storage
  * Museum of Liverpool Life, Liverpool, closed in 2006, collections moved to the Museum of Liverpool
  * National Conservation Centre, Liverpool, closed to the public in 2010
  * Shore Road Pumping Station, Birkenhead
  * Steamport Southport, Southport, also known as Southport Railway Museum, closed in 1999, collections now part of the Ribble Steam Railway
  * Warship Preservation Trust, Birkenhead, closed in 2006
  * Wirral Museum, Birkenhead
  