House of Memories is an award-winning dementia awareness programme created by National Museums Liverpool. Our team offer training, access to resources, and museum-based activities to enable carers to provide person-centred care...
Read MoreThis summer Manchester will mark the anniversary of a public pro-democracy demonstration on August 16, 1819, and its now infamous and bloody response from the authorities. In the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo (1815), such...
Read MoreAsk someone this: what is the first thing that enters their mind when someone mentions women in the Victorian era? What’s the first thing they say? High-tea and respectable society or more domestic pursuits? Adventures in...
Read MoreThe first two objects in Manchester Museum’s new exhibition Extinction or Survival? are a model of a dodo and a stuffed panda. One is extinct, of course. And the other has been brought back from the brink of extinction, thanks...
Read More“I don’t think I would have got my job without my hair.” Not many people can say that with any conviction. Michael Bolton? Sure. Limahl from Kajagoogoo? Definitely. Everyone in Bon Jovi. And the young lad who...
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