Liverpool City Centre Accommodation

World Museum Liverpool, Site of the Popular City Planetarium

Cultural Centre Liverpool, Clustered around St George's Hall

Liverpool Open Top Tour Bus calling in at The World Museum

Queensway Tunnel Entrance built 1934 near the World Museum, distinctive modernist architecture of Herbert J Rowse

World Museum Liverpool, National Museums Liverpool UK

The World Museum Liverpool sits in the heart of the city centre near the station and next door to the Walker Art Gallery. The eclectic mix of galleries in this vast museum including natural history, ethnology, the popular free Planetarium and the Space and Time Gallery can easily fill a whole fun packed family day out. This Liverpool Museum is internationally renowned for its collection of fossils and Egyption artefacts and these prized collections are further boosted by the museum's now cutting edge technology and wide range of interactive hands-on exhibits which bring the Natural World alive for children.

World Museum Liverpool, William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EN. Tel. 0151 478 4393.

World Museum Liverpool

The vast World Museum Liverpool sits in the heart of the city centre near Lime Street Station beside the Walker Art Gallery. Interactive hands on family fun blends well here with an internationally renowned collection and cutting edge technology. The World Museum Liverpool specialises in archaeology, the physical and natural sciences, ethnography and has a popular in-house free planetarium.

The archaeology and ethnography exhibitions come largely from collections deposited by the Liverpool goldsmith Joseph Mayer in 1867. The collection includes many unique ancient Egyptian artefacts and Oriental decorative arts. Natural World exhibits include an aquarium, Bug House, the Clore Natural History Centre with hands-on exhibits focusing on the world of animals, plants and rocks and a Botany and Zoology collection. The World Cultures exhibit is ethnology focussed, with four main areas Africa, the Americas, Oceania and Asia. The Egyptian collection is a particular highlight.

The key attraction at this museum is the Planetarium, taking you through a brief exploration of each of the planets and moons which form part of our solar system. Find out more about why life on Earth is able to exist, what makes Jupiter look stripy, evidence of water ice just 3 metres below Mars' surface - and why spacecraft landing on Venus won't last more than an hour before being crushed by the intense pressure.

The fossil collection held by the World Museum Liverpool is one of the UK's best, and includes over 40,000 fossils. The focus of the collection is Britain, with specimens strategically and chronologically arranged, making the journey of discovery on the origins of the Earth accessible and easy to follow. A further extensive collection of Rocks and Minerals are also within this exhibit space.

The Planetarium at The World Museum Liverpool

The free to enter Planetarium within The World Museum Liverpool is understandably still one of the museum's most popular attractions.

Get ready for a spectacular journey through space and time. Great fun and simultaneously highly educational, shows guide you through the formation of the Solar System and animated guides to all the planets, the Earth's moon, The Sun source of all light and energy on Earth and what exactly are Asteroids, Meteors and Comets.

Public shows at the Planetarium last around 30 minutes and shows through the day are often differently themed including topics 'A Tale of Two Planets', 'Wonders of the Solar System' and 'Sunshine'. Public Shows run Monday to Friday: shows at 2.30, 3.15 and 4.05pm. Saturday & Sunday: shows at 1.15, 2.15, 3.15 and 4.05pm. Checkout the World Museum's webguide right for further details on Educational Shows.

Just outside the Planetarium sits the Space and Time Gallery. (Third Floor). The Space Quiz book (aimed at Primary School age children) helps bring this gallery alive for younger children.

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