Sep 14, 2024 · National Museums Liverpool's museums and galleries are free to visit and are open from 10am-5pm, Tuesday to Sunday.

Our collections are among the most important and varied in Europe and contain everything from Impressionist paintings, objects from antiquity and cultures from around the world to rare beetles, social history and objects from the Titanic.

The Walker Art Gallery is famous for the world-class quality and variety of its collections. From Rossetti to Hockney, there is a diverse range of art on display including contemporary art and work from as far back as the 13th century, and our Pre-Raphaelite collections are amongst the best in the world. We hope that these highlights will help give you a …

Immerse yourself in an exhibition that brings together art and science to explore one of nature’s most incredible creatures - the bee.This exhibition is a story of 120 million years of adaptation and survival. Bees have lived on the planet since the time of the dinosaurs. They are vital to our survival, but changes to the environment and climate mean their existence is under threat.

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1: They were discovered completely by accident. The Terracotta Army was discovered on 29 March 1974 when farmer Yang Zhifa uncovered fragments of pottery when digging a well.

Alma-Tadema made his reputation in England with paintings showing the everyday life of ancient Roman society with archaeological precision. A tepidarium was a warm Roman bath, and the woman in the painting holds a strigel which was used for scraping the skin after it was soaped and oiled. This work show enormous technical skill in rendering surfaces, perhaps reflecting Alma-Tadema's Dutch origins.

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The Walker Art Gallery has one of the most important and renowned painting collections in the UK. The collection includes European Renaissance paintings, masterpieces by Rubens, Rembrandt, Turner and Stubbs, Pre-Raphaelite artworks by Rossetti and Millais, Impressionist works by Monet and Degas and contemporary works by Hockney, Wylie and the winners of the John Moores Painting Prize.

Detail from Pier Head, 1908, by Charles Cockerham (51.25.2) If you enter Liverpool city centre by train you do so either underground or in a deep railway cutting, meaning you see very little of the city until you’ve left the railway station. By road you’ll see more, but we don’t have medieval walls or gateways to mark your entrance.