Museum Partnerships
Albert Dock Traffic Office, future home of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery
This is a partnership between the University of Liverpool and the National Museums Liverpool. The aim of the Centre is to contribute to greater understanding and informed debate about the transatlantic slave trade and its many legacies in an interdisciplinary way. The Centre develops research initiatives as well as learning events and outreach programmes with communities, schools, volunteers, life long learner and the general public. Full details and list of events.
The Hittite and Aegean Gallery at Liverpool Museum (as was) before the Blitz bombing.
The partnership bid between the Antiquities Department at World Museum and the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) at the University of Liverpool, to the Arts, Humanities and Research Council has been successful. The grant will cover for a 3 year PhD student to research The Lost Hittite Gallery: John Garstang and Turkey. The student will be jointly supervised by National Museum Liverpool’s Head of Antiquities and Professor Alan Greaves at University of Liverpool.
For the purposes of developing content for this 2008 exhibition, Dr Marion Leonard, lecturer at the Instute of Popular Music, was seconded in 2005 as the lead curator. The Institute of Popular Music will be using part of its grant from the Landscape and Environment programme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council to create an interactive map for the exhibition, linking music and Liverpool's urban environment.
Since October 2005 a group of University of Liverpool academics has been running an interdisciplinary research seminar with input from National Museums Liverpool curatorial teams. As a result of this collaboration the Eighteenth Century Worlds Centre was launched in May 2007. The centre's inaugural conference was on Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool and coincided with this major exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery (17 November 2007- 24 February 2008).