Merseyside Maritime Museum has been awarded £200,000 to support the renovation of one of its oldest display areas.

The funding will see the creation of a major new gallery space exploring the lives of Liverpool’s seafarers with over 250 objects set to go on show.

The £200,000 from DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund will allow the display of some of the museum’s most important items for the first time and tell stories that have previously gone untold.

Items include a dolls house made in 1881 for Emily Raven, the five-year-old daughter of Captain Daniel Brocklebank of the ship Ravenswood.

It was designed and made by the ship’s carpenter during a voyage around the world and provides a reminder that families often went to sea together and travelled around the world on trading expeditions.

Janet Dugdale, director of Merseyside Maritime Museum says: “We’re absolutely delighted that Merseyside Maritime Museum has received this award of funding from DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund.

“This award will help enable us to change the oldest parts of the Museum and transform them into the Sea Galleries. This is the first step in our development plan for the Museum as we take a people-focussed, storytelling and contemporary approach to our relationship with the sea as a maritime nation.

“The museum celebrated its 30th birthday in 2016 and received more than 840,000 visitors as the leading attraction in Albert Dock, demonstrating the appeal that Liverpool’s seafaring history continues to have for people coming to the city.”

Meanwhile on the third floor, the International Slavery Museum is celebrating its 10^th anniversary this year and is marking the occasion with a programme of events and activities.

The milestone 12 months begin with Art of Solidarity (13 January – 18 June) – an exhibition of more than 30 rarely seen posters produced by the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL).

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