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Museum of Liverpool Opened in 2011 in a landmark waterfront building, it is the UK’s first
museum dedicated to the history of a city. Visitors can explore how Liverpool’s port, its people and
its creative, industrial and sporting history have shaped the city.

Many museums and galleries are located around the Albert Dock, such as the Merseyside
Maritime Museum and International Slavery Museum, where you can find out all about the
companies, people and ships connected to this port city.

The city is home to two of English football’s top clubs. Liverpool and Everton. If you can work it,
try to go to one of their games to get a real taste of English “culture”.

Liverpool F.C. At Liverpool Football Club’s interactive museum, The Liverpool FC Story, visitors
can discover over 120 years of LFC history and explore football, past and present, with the help of
state of the art technology and never seen before displays.

Everton F.C. There’s no place quite like Goodison Park, the home of ‘The Toffees.’ There’s no
sound quite like the roar of over 40,000 blues spectators on a Saturday. There’s no atmosphere
quite like that of Everton’s ‘Grand Old Lady’ on football day. Unarguably the less well known of
the two Liverpool Premier League football teams, Everton has a strong, more local fan-base than
that of it’s rivals. It was also the first team on the block, founded in 1878 by St Domingo Church.
Everton were pioneers of football and one of the founders of the football league.

And then there’s The Beatles. No trip to Liverpool would be complete without a visit to the Beatles
Story in the Albert Dock. The Beatles Story follows John, Paul, George and Ringo from their early
beginnings to global Beatlemania and beyond. Allow several hours for your visit as there is so
much to see.

Albert Dock is also the starting point for the Magical Mystery Tour, a two-hour bus trip taking in
various Beatles landmarks, including Penny Lane and Strawberry Field.

Anyone coming to Liverpool for The Beatles should stop off at the world-famous Cavern Club on
Mathew Street in the city centre. The Beatles played there nearly 300 times, and you can hear live
music every day of the week.

Six miles out of Liverpool is Crosby Beach the
big attraction of which is Antony Gormley’s art
installation”Another Place“. It’s made up of
100 life-size human figures facing out to
sea. They are spread over a 2 miles of the
beach and stretch 1km out to sea.

According to Gormley, Another Place harnesses
the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man’s
relationship with nature.

Please note – Crosby beach is a non-bathing
beach with areas of soft sand and mud and a
risk of changing tides. Visitors should stay within
50 metres of the promenade at all tides and not
attempt to walk out to the furthest figures. You’d
also be advised to take a pair of gumboots – or
wellies as the locals call them.

More about Liverpool in Wikipedia . . .