Merseyside Maritime Museum is in a former bonded warehouse, part of the historic Albert Dock on the banks of the River Mersey. The museum, opened in 1980, tells the story of one of the world's greatest ports and the people who used it.
The museum's collections reflect the international importance of Liverpool as a gateway to the world, including the city's role in the transatlantic slave trade and emigration.
The Maritime Archive and Library contains one of the finest collections of merchant shipping records in the UK.

At Merseyside Maritime Museum you can:
» retrace the steps of the nine million emigrants who left Liverpool between 1830 and 1930 for new lives in America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
» learn about the vital role of merchant ships in World War Two's Battle of the Atlantic
» investigate the moving history of transatlantic slavery
» travel back in time on board the pilot boat Edmund Gardner to World Cup Final day 1966 (Easter - October only)
» discover the opulence of the Titanic and the Lusitania, floating palaces of the Edwardian age

"Meccano: Twentieth Century Toys is a special summer exhibition across the two sites of Museum of Liverpool Life and Merseyside Maritime Museum and runs until 28 October 2001. For more details www.museumofliverpoollife.org.uk/meccano