A new skating exhibition has rolled in at the Lancaster Maritime Museum. The free display, ‘Get Your Skates On!’ will run until Wednesday 2 August. The display will tell the history of the popularity of roller skating and highlight the enthusiasm for roller skating in Lancashire. Julie Bell, head of […]
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The opening hours of Lancaster Maritime Museum will change for the summer this month. From Saturday 27 May until Tuesday 31 October the museum, based at the former Custom House on St. George’s Quay Lancaster, will open from 10am until 4pm each day. This will replace the current opening hours […]
Lancaster Maritime Museum changes opening hours
The Museum of Wigan Life will be transformed into a contemporary art and music venue for a special night of digital art installations, dance and sound. The popular ‘Museums at Night’ event returns with a twist on Friday 19th May, showcasing culture in a new light. After dark, the museum […]
Arts and culture takes over local museum
The Museum of Wigan Life will become only the fourth museum in the UK to play host to a prestigious exhibition produced by Manchester Museum from April 29th. Animal Mummies Uncovered arrives later this month, offering a fascinating insight into the world of Ancient Egyptian animal mummification. This myth-busting experience […]
Award-winning Egyptian exhibition coming to Wigan!
Hirst, Tillmans and Shonibare feature in a new exhibition at the Walker A new exhibition at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery will ask whether art can help us to see things differently. Transparency, an Arts Council Collection National Partners exhibition, runs from 24 March to 18 June 2017 and showcases work […]
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Merseyside Museum commemorates Six Day War anniversary Merseyside Maritime Museum is looking for former seafarers who were on a stranded ship on the Suez Canal between June 1967 and June 1975, to attend a special 50th anniversary reunion at Merseyside Maritime Museum on Thursday 1 June. 14 merchant ships were […]