Anthony Walker Education Centre at International Slavery Museum

State of the art learning facility dedicated to murdered teenager Anthony Walker.

National Museums Liverpool announced today that the new International Slavery Museum will include a state of the art learning facility dedicated to murdered teenager Anthony Walker.

The Anthony Walker Education Centre will provide a space for specially created education sessions about the legacy of racial intolerance left behind by the transatlantic slave trade.
Eighteen-year-old Anthony was killed in McGoldrick Park, Huyton in July 2005.

The International Slavery Museum will open in Liverpool on 23 August 2007, Slavery Remembrance Day, a day that commemorates an uprising of enslaved Africans on the island of St Domingo (modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in 1791. Designated by UNESCO, the date was chosen as a reminder that enslaved Africans were the main agents of their own liberation.

Schools, colleges, local communities and the general public will be able to take part in a range of programmes including workshops, lectures and debates.

Anthony’s mother, Gee said “I’m grateful that the museum has decided to name one of its learning centres after Anthony. He would be incredibly proud. I have been lucky enough to have a preview of the museum and believe it is an incredibly vital local resource. It’s essential that we all learn from the past in order to build a better and more harmonious future. It is the goal behind the charitable foundation established in Anthony’s name and the museum itself.”

Paul Khan, Director of Learning at National Museums Liverpool, said: “There is a synergy between the aims of the Anthony Walker Foundation and the International Slavery Museum in tackling the history of transatlantic slavery and its continuing legacy of racism and discrimination. In naming the centre we will help to keep Anthony’s name at the forefront of people’s minds and it will be associated with something that will have a positive impact”.

The museum will feature new dynamic and thought-provoking displays about the story of the transatlantic slave trade. The museum will include new displays about the legacy of transatlantic slavery, and will address issues such as freedom, identity, human rights, racial discrimination and cultural change. The museum will also seek to address ignorance and misunderstanding by looking at the deep and permanent impact of slavery and the slave trade on Africa, South America, the USA, the Caribbean and Western Europe. 

The displays will include an interactive music desk, which will chart the origins of today’s popular music from the transatlantic slave trade, a Ku Klux Klan outfit, and a wall dedicated to 70 key Black achievers, past and present.

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