International Slavery Museum To Open

Liverpool’s new International Slavery Museum will open on 23 August – Slavery Remembrance Day. “This unique and thought-provoking museum explores the slave trade and Liverpool’s involvement, while addressing issues such as freedom, identity, human rights, racial discrimination and cultural change,” says National Museums Liverpool. The new museum replaces the Transatlantic slavery gallery, and is the first phase in its three-stage development encompassing ‘Life in West Africa’, ‘Enslavement and the Middle Passage’, and ‘Legacy.’ The museum includes a walk-in audio-visual display to graphically illustrate the appalling conditions on slave ships. Opening times Thursday 23 and Friday 24 August, extended opening hours of 9.45am to 7pm. The museum will open early from 9.45am to 5pm from Saturday 25 August to Tuesday 28th. From Wednesday 29 August it will open dialy 10am-5pm, excluding Christmas Day, Boxing Day and News Year’s Day.

New Anfield Stadium Revealed

Having been away on holiday, I was sorry to miss the revelation of Dallas-based HKS’ architects’ design mock-ups for the new stadium. As I said in the previous post, the design promised to be something quite exceptional, and so it has proven. Hopefully, work will now start on the stadium by the end of this year, with completion set for 2010.