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Work Experience Report
Below, James tells us all about his work experience with our Decorative Arts department. Over to James… “I’m James and I’m a Year 10 student at King David High School in Liverpool. I spent a week on...
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Sylvia, volunteer extraordinaire, shortlisted for Merseyside Woman of the Year
The Education team at the Walker Art Gallery are pleased to announce that their nomination for the Merseyside Women of the Year Awards has been shortlisted – none other than Sylvia Jones! Celebrating...
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Join Louise for a workshop…
Louise helping young visitors with their crafts One of our hard-working volunteers tells us about her role: “Hi, my name is Louise McClelland, and I’ve been volunteering at Sudley House for 2 years....
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Two tonnes of pots to wash
Volunteers who helped wash two tonnes of excavated pottery. At the end of March, the Museum of Liverpool’s Field Archaeology Unit spent two weeks excavating a site in Rainford. Rainford Tennis Club,...
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Well done James and George!
James and George. Ben Whittaker, Curator of Port History, has some exciting news to share:- “Congratulations to two of our longstanding volunteers on the Edmund Gardner Pilot ship, who have been...
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Documenting Japan
Mark examining a blade from the Hibbert collection It would be very difficult for us to document the many thousands of objects we have in our collections without the help of our volunteers. Mark Jones...
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Investigating an Ainsdale shipwreck
Surveying the site of the shipwreck Mark Adams, Senior Archaeological Project Officer at the Museum of Liverpool’s archaeology department, has been uncovering a mystery hidden by the sand on a nearby...
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‘Buddy days’ for family carers and volunteers
You may have heard about our highly successful ‘House of Memories’ dementia awareness programme, which has reached more than 7000 health, housing and social care workers. We’re really excited about...
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Caldies Big Dig
Calderstones Mansion House The Museum of Liverpool’s archaeologists are busy preparing for our next dig, and this one’s a ‘big dig’ at Calderstones Park! We’re working with The Reader Organisation to...
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Caldies Big Dig – an update from the park
Jeff Speakman, Assistant Curator of Regional Archaeology working with Calderstones Big Dig volunteers. Liz Stewart, Curator of Archaeology and the Historic Environment and the archaeology team from the...
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Harris Jonas takes a look at our Japanese swords
Harris (left) taking in the history of the blades with Mark (right). This week we had a visitor to the Japan collections. Ethnology volunteer Mark Jones tells us about it here. “In a blog I wrote back...
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Free national dementia workshops for family carers
Carers discover a vintage hairdryer © Pete Carr Sunday, 11 September 2016 marked National Dementia Carers’ Day, which recognises the important contribution family and informal carers make by caring for...
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Celebrating our archaeology volunteers
Volunteer Sophie Flynn starting to clean a hoard of Roman coins The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary recording scheme for archaeological objects found by members of the public. Every...
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Pembroke Place – read all about it!
Today we have a guest blog from Lucy Kilfoyle, a researcher in the History Department at the University of Liverpool. Lucy is leading a team of volunteers investigating historic newspapers as part of...
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Four funerals and a wedding
Aerial view of Pembroke Place c1930s © Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine An amazing team of volunteers have been delving into historic archives to reveal some of the secrets of Pembroke Place as...
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Galkoff’s and the Secret Life of Pembroke Place update
Galkoff’s butcher’s shop today – behind protective hoarding. Image courtesy of LSTM The Galkoff’s and the Secret Life of Pembroke Place project team, along with 24 volunteers have been delving into the...
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Sir Francis Seymour Haden: Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, No 1 (1870)
Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, No 1 (1870), by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Walker Art Gallery As a volunteer at the Walker Art Gallery, I have been helping Exhibition Curator, Alex Patterson, to digitise...
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Volunteer helps uncover the secret life of Pembroke Place
Liz Stewart and Susan Bennett Volunteers are an integral part of National Museums Liverpool, and without them, important work would not be able to take place. This month, I had the pleasure of meeting...
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Volunteer spotlight: Randa Craig
Volunteers are an integral part of National Museums Liverpool, and without them, important work would not be able to take place. As part of the volunteer spotlight series we are meeting up with...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Amani Magdoubi
Volunteers are an integral part of National Museums Liverpool, and without them, important work would not be able to take place. As part of the Volunteer Spotlight series I am meeting up with...
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