Museum Partnerships
National Museums Liverpool has been a partner in the ecsite-uk Travelling Exhibitions Consortium, (eTEC) together with At-Bristol, ecsite-uk, Magna and W5 since 2004. The Consortium has produced three interactive travelling exhibitions, funded by the Millennium Commission through a ReDiscover grant. Eye for Colour has been produced by National Museums Liverpool for eTEC and won the 2007 Museums and Heritage Award for Excellence in the category of Best Temporary Exhibition.
First shown at the Museum of Liverpool Life, this is the first exhibition to reveal what life was like in Liverpool and the North West during the Roman period. Living with the Romans shows how the native people lived, worked and died under Roman rule. Visitors are taken back nearly 2000 years using artefacts, dioramas and models to portray a vivid picture of daily life. The tour of Living with the Romans was made possible by Partnerships’ funding for display cases.
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Merseyside Maritime Museum was one of five venues to host this installation through the British Museum’s Partnership UK programme. The tour is funded by Arts Council England with additional support through the generosity of the Dorset Foundation.
Romuald Hazoumé's La Bouche du Roi was at Merseyside Maritime Museum in 2007 as part of a year long programme of events to celebrate the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade at National Museums Liverpool.