The children’s gallery is intended as a dreamscape, which visitors can explore through interactive displays and exhibits.
Despite the size of the immense x-shaped building, the structure avoids - as far as possible - the use of interior support columns. This is to ensure the building will be open and accessible.
The long-running project has been beset by funding problems and controversy and David Fleming, Director of National Museums Liverpool, described the experience as akin to having to run the Grand National. He said: “Having cleared the final hurdle, we’re now on the home straight.”
The new museum will replace the original Museum of Liverpool Life, which shut in 2006. It will house 10,000 objects from the National Museums Liverpool collection. Many of these items were not previously on display because the Liverpool Life building was too small.
