Part of National Museums Liverpool
This collection of Roman sculpture is the largest collection of classical sculpture in Britain outside the British Museum.
Explore more than 1300 antiquities online including mummies, coffins, sculpture, jewellery, and papyrus.
Online exhibition exploring damage from the bombing of the museum on 3 May 1941.
Ancient Cypriot antiquities from a major excavation at Kouklia in the 1950s.
Nigerian travelling equipment sold to World Museum in 1860 by former enslaved African, Selim Aga.
From Antiquities to Zoology, over 1.7 million internationally significant artefacts and specimens.
80,000 objects from across the ancient world including Egyptian, Nubian, Greek, Roman, Cypriot, Mesopotamian and Anglo-Saxon collections.
The herbarium currently contains around 400,000 specimens, the great majority being pressed dried mounted specimens.
The collection is made up of around 40,000 objects from Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
The geological collection at World Museum contains over 40,000 fossils as well as extensive rock and mineral collections.
The horology collections are extensive, containing over 12,000 items and are of international significance.
The collection contains several significant items from the Liverpool Royal Institution and Bidston Observatory.
The zoology collection is made up of around 1.2 million specimens of invertebrate and vertebrate animals.
What colour should the sand be? This was just one of the many things we had to think about when installing the pit burial case for the new Ancient Egypt gallery.