As we celebrate 250 years of the birth of one of the nation’s favourite painters – J.M.W. Turner – we ask how copyright law impacts on how we engage with reproductions of popular art-gallery paintings ...

Shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize 2025, Miranda describes how her creative process begins with an instinctive outpouring of drawings and written thoughts, and reveals that many of her ...

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With a background in critical psychology and Black studies, Dr Guilaine Kinouani explores the impact of racism and whiteness on the mind and body.

This was the first major painting Hunt made during his first stay in the Holy Land. He had the idea for it while researching Jewish rituals for another painting, 'The Finding of the Saviour in the ...

This was the first of the 'candlelights' - anticipating his celebrated 'Orrery' and the 'Experiment on a Bird in the air-pump' - that Wright exhibited in public. The work is a mediatation on the ...

Extended until September 28 2025 and kids under 12 go free!Immerse yourself in an exhibition that brings together art and science to explore one of nature’s most incredible creatures - the bee.This ...

This painting shows a young boy breaking stones for road mending. This was an unskilled job often given to paupers. The landscape is Box Hill near Dorking, Surrey. The painting seems to reflect the ...

Nothing is known about the private lives of the people depicted in this salesman’s dinner. However, the photograph is a rare glimpse of the interior of the Stork Hotel which stood in Queen Square. The ...

The Liverpool Overhead Railway, opened in 1893, was the first elevated electric railway in the world. It ran the length of the Liverpool docks – around six and a half miles. Although it was built to ...

Without the support of the people of Liverpool, as well as Liverpool’s national and international links, our collections would not exist. If you own a piece of local history that you would like to ...