House of Memories to launch first UK community-curated dual-language digital collection for Liverpool-Yemeni community
Abdul Wase in traditional Yemeni clothing
Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund,
House of Memories – National Museums Liverpool’s multi-award-winning dementia awareness programme.
Co-created with the Yemeni community and the Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre in Liverpool, the project will be supported by collections access and research from The Fashion Museum Bath and other online UK museum Yemeni collections.
The project will expand understanding and interpretation of UK museum and community collections enabling young participants to capture, preserve and digitise familiar and untold community stories, traditions and culture linked to museum collections. A bespoke multi-language app package will be produced – the first UK dual-language digital collection created for an app – and will be supported by a Toolkit for
National Museums Liverpool to celebrate LGBT History Month online extravaganza
The exhibition will be celebrating Liverpool’s rich LGBTQ+ history.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic that is still raging on, museum exhibitions across the country are currently closed.
However, National Museums Liverpool is getting around that for LGBT History Month with an online extravaganza.
The exhibition will celebrate Liverpool’s rich LGBTQ+ history and follow this year’s LGBT History Month’s theme, Body, Mind, Spirit.
Most of the exhibitions will be starting on 1 February, but from 25 January, a beautiful House of Suarez Vogue Ball dress will be on display in one of the museum’s windows. The gown and headpiece were originally commissioned for the Liverpool River Festival in 2019, with Liverpool’s seafaring history being its inspiration.
4:05 AM MYT LONDON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Three world-famous pre-Raphaelite paintings have returned to their home at the nationally acclaimed Lady Lever Art Gallery near Liverpool in the United Kingdom (UK) after being loaned to the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. A team of experts, watched by gallery staff, had to wear masks and maintain social distance on Wednesday during the operation to restore the works to their places in the gallery, one of the collections of National Museums Liverpool (NML). Two of the returned oil-on-canvas works are by famous artist Edward Burne-Jones, who painted them in the 19th century. They are the Tree of Forgiveness, painted in 1882, and The Beguiling of Merlin, painted in 1874-1877.
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LONDON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Three world-famous pre-Raphaelite paintings have returned to their home at the nationally acclaimed Lady Lever Art Gallery near Liverpool in the United Kingdom (UK) after being loaned to the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
A team of experts, watched by gallery staff, had to wear masks and maintain social distance on Wednesday during the operation to restore the works to their places in the gallery, one of the collections of National Museums Liverpool (NML).
Two of the returned oil-on-canvas works are by famous artist Edward Burne-Jones, who painted them in the 19th century. They are the Tree of Forgiveness, painted in 1882, and The Beguiling of Merlin, painted in 1874-1877.
Wilhelm Hollitscher was the model for Hugo Dachinger’s painting on a copy of The Times in 1940. Image: National Museums Liverpool
INTERNMENT during the Second World War saw thousands of people rounded up and locked behind eight-metre-high barbed wire fences – an indiscriminate action of blanket arrests based on a person’s origin rather than action.
One man interned was a refugee from the Nazis, Wilhelm Hollitscher – and during confinement, he kept a detailed diary.
The discovery of this diary, in the archives of the Weiner Library in Bloomsbury, has prompted a new book telling the story of life in a internment camp.