Museum Of Liverpool Life, from Maritime Museum dry dock, with Victorian street gaslamp, Merseyside, England, UK, L3 4AD

The Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, tells the story of Liverpool and its people, and reflects the city's global significance. It opened 2011 as newest addition to the National Museums Liverpool group replacing the former Museum of Liverpool Life. The museum is housed in a new purpose-built building on the Mann Island site at the Pier Head. History Further information: Museum of Liverpool Life The museum, which was designed by architects 3XN and engineers Buro Happold and built by Galliford Try at cost of £72 million, provides 8, 000 square metres of exhibition space, housing more than 6, 000 objects. It has flexible spaces that regularly change to enable National Museums Liverpool to show more of their collections. It was opened to the public on 19 June 2011. in January and February 2017, the museum was closed for two months for essential works . From 10 to 12 December 2021, the museum hosted the G7 summit of foreign ministers.