Liverpool museums enjoy £19m DCMS boost for ‘major work’

This article was first published by Arts Professional.

Plans for the redevelopment of two Liverpool museums have received substantial backing in the form of a major public investment of £19 million.

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS’) funding boost, part of its Public Bodies Infrastructure Fund, will go towards work on the International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum on Liverpool’s waterfront.

The renovation of the museums will form the “cornerstone” of National Museums Liverpool’s Waterfront Transformation Project, which seeks to reimagine the area between Royal Albert Dock and Mann Island.

The International Slavery Museum will receive a new entrance “worthy of its position as the only national museum in the world dedicated to transatlantic slavery and its legacies”.

It will become the home to the National Centre for Teaching Black History, with a redeveloped floor of the Dr Martin Luther King Jr building due to be dedicated to the learning outcomes of the centre.