Welcome guide 1 Welcome to the Merseyside Maritime Museum and International Slavery Museum This is the entrance to the Merseyside Maritime Museum, you can also enter from the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool colonnades. This guide will help you find your way Entrance around the museum, if you have any questions please ask a member of staff to help you. Staff wear blue shirts and name badges. Fire Alarms If the fire alarm sounds please follow staff instructions and ask for assistance if required. Museum member of staff Ground Floor plan 2 GROUND FLOOR Inside the main entrance is the foyer, a meeting place for many of our visitors and school groups. From this space you can find the Quayside café, information desk, shop, lifts to all floors and a temporary exhibition space. Staff can help with any questions: Ground floor • If you have any problems in the museum. • If you want to know what events are happening in the museum. • If you are separated from a group. • If you have lost property in the museum. • You can let us know how your visit was in the Visitor Book. Information Desk Toilets These are the symbols for the different toilets you will find around the building. The symbols will either be next to the toilet or a picture on the toilet door. There are toilets near the café on the ground floor and on all floors. The changing places toilet can be found on the second floor at the far end of the Toilet signs Titanic exhibition. You can request a RADAR key from the Information desk or any member of staff. 3 Food and Drink The Quayside Café serves sandwiches, drinks and cakes and can be found on the Ground Floor to the right of the entrance to Seized! You may only eat food and drink bought in the Museum in the Café and Maritime Dining Room. There is a picnic area on Quayside Café the ground floor colonnades where you can eat your own food. There is a roof over this space but sometimes seagulls and pigeons fly in and walk among the tables. Lifts and stairs There are two lifts that go to every floor of the museum opposite the shop. There are signs outside and inside the lifts to tell you what is on each floor. Lifts Each lift has a mirror inside on the back wall. There are also stairs by the lifts which take you to the upper floors Stairs 4 Seized! To the left of the foyer is the entrance to Seized! the UK National Border Force Museum. You can find out about the work of Border Force officers at our ports and airports and how they stop smugglers. Seized! Exhibition There are weapons and objects made from real animals in this museum. These objects are all in secure glass cases. To use this entrance you must walk down some stairs into the Basement. You can also visit Seized by using the lifts. Lockers By the ground floor toilets you will find the lockers you can leave your coats, Lockers bags here if you choose. You will need a £1 coin or token which will be returned when you empty the locker. 5 BASEMENT Emigrants to the New World In this gallery there are areas made to look as though they are from Victorian times including life-like models of Victorian travellers. There is an old fashioned street and the inside of a pretend sailing ship. Both of Emigrants to the New World exhibition these areas have noises which can be quite loud. You do not have to go through these areas if you do not want to. Sometimes special events and activities take place here. Check the website for details. liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/events Learning Base B This is one of the education rooms in the museum. There are sometimes special events and activities that take place in here which you can find details of on our website or from our Information Desk. The room will be locked when no events are taking place. Basement Floor plan 6 FIRST FLOOR Lusitania: Life, Loss, Legacy exhibition This exhibition talks about the sinking of the Liverpool ship, Lusitania, during World War One. The Battle of the Atlantic and Life Lusitania exhibition at Sea galleries • Explain the vital role that Liverpool played in the Second World War. • Explores the role of merchant ships and seafarers in providing a vital lifeline for the country by carrying goods and passengers in both peace and war over the last 300 years. Sea Urchins play area Sea Urchins play area This play area is especially for children aged 5 and under. There are pictures to colour in, a trail to follow around the Life at Sea gallery and storybooks. Learning Base 1 This is an education space where special events and activities can take place. When no events are happening, a film plays about people’s memories of the waterfront in Liverpool. Battle of the Atlantic exhibition 7 SECOND FLOOR The second floor will be under development in 2020 as we create the new Life on board galleries, Titanic and Liverpool will be closed from 6 January 2020. While this gallery is closed the nearest Changing Places toilet is at TATE Titanic & Liverpool Exhibition Liverpool or the Museum of Liverpool. Second Floor plan 8 THIRD FLOOR International Slavery Museum The International Slavery Museum highlights the international importance of slavery, both in a historic and contemporary context. Working in partnership with other museums with Entrance to the International Slavery Museum a focus on freedom and enslavement, from the lifts the museum provides opportunities for greater awareness and understanding of the legacy of slavery today. It is the only museum of its kind to look at aspects of historical and contemporary slavery as well as being an international hub for resources on human rights issues. At the top of the stairs is a tactile floor plan for the International Slavery Museum showing you where everything is. There are also handsets that you can pick up and listen to. These give you the information in different languages. There is also information in braille. Third Floor plan 9 Anthony Walker Education Centre This is the education space for the International Slavery Museum. Special events and activities sometimes take place in here, please check the website for details liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/events The door will be locked when no events Anthony Walker Education Centre are taking place. Life in West Africa gallery In the Life in West Africa gallery, you will see a recreation of part of an Igbo family compound - these are traditional in Nigeria. There are also many items such as masks and instruments in the glass cases around the walls. Enslavement and the Middle Enslavement and the Middle Passage gallery Passage gallery entrance When you enter the Enslavement and Middle Passage gallery, it is slightly darker. In the middle of the space, you will see a round structure – inside here is an immersive film which shows the experience of the Middle Passage. The content of the film can be quite distressing. You do not have to walk through here if you do not want to. Legacy The Legacy gallery features reminders of the discrimination and racism still faced by Black people even after the abolition of slavery. 10 Campaign Zone The Campaign Zone is an area linked to the Temporary Exhibition Space. This can be used as a quiet space, if the door is open. Image: The National Welfare Rights Organization marching to end hunger as part of the Poor People’s Campaign, 1968. Jack Rottier photograph collection, George Mason University Libraries. 11 FOURTH FLOOR Conference and Events Suite Perfect for evening receptions, dinners, networking events, launches, and conferences. Contact 0151 478 4780 for more information. Conference and Events Suite Fourth Floor plan 12 E&E_Guide_May2017.qxp_Layout 1 07/04/2017 16:59 Page 4 FREE ENTRY * Open daily 10am - 5pm Merseyside Maritime Museum / 4 International Slavery Museum / Seized! The Border and Customs Walker Art Gallery 1 Uncovered William Brown Street, L3 8EL RoyalAlbert Albert Dock, LDock3 4A Liverpool,Q L3 4AQ 0151 478 4199 01510151 447878 44499499 World Museum 2 Lady Lever Art Gallery 5 William Brown Street, L3 8EN Port Sunlight Village, CH62 5EQ 0151 478 4393 0151 478 4136 Museum of Liverpool 3 Sudley House 6 Pier Head, L3 1DG Mossley Hill Road, L18 8BX 0151 478 4545 0151 478 4016 *All of our venues are open 10am-5pm every day except on 24, 25, 26 and 31 December and 1 January, when they are closed all day. Mossley Hill Station Cover: Rêverie (detail), 1898, Alphonse Mucha © Mucha Trust 2017. 1 We hope that you enjoy your visit If you have any questions, please ring the Information Desk on 0151 478 4499 FREE ENTRY liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/learning 13.