Liverpool World Museum
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Key Info
Cost
FREE but they welcome donations, with stations to pay online or cash in various spots
Parking
Street parking – we paid for 2 hours, but you could easily spend longer there
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday 10am-4pm
Food
Café serving hot and cold food, drinks & deserts. Seperate seating for own picnic next to the bank
Café serving hot and cold food, drinks & deserts. Seperate seating for own picnic next to the bank
Park
No
No
Pram friendly
Wheelchair friendly
Toilet
Disabled toilet and baby change
Our Visit
Last visited November 2023
This week, we visited Liverpool World Museum! It was great for both boys, age 3 and 7, with plenty to explore
The first floor is an Aquarium, with hermit crabs, starfish, rays, terrapins, jellyfish, lots of tanks for the kids to look at and enjoy. There’s a little tunnel that they an climb in and get a closer look, as well as projection walls, with lots of facts and videos of sea creatures.
They have 4 large floors, with lots of different themes. There’s lift access to all floors and disabled toilets.
The return of the Gods was one of the only area’s you need to pay to go in, and its free for under 17’s and £8 per adult.
The Ancient Egypt floor was amazing! For any younger ones, just be aware there’s several mummified bodies, very graphic and our eldest was not keen on the bodies. Our youngest didn’t really understand it was a real person so he just kept on going! The floor covers over 5000 years of life by the river Nile, where you learn about the pyramids, the burial practices, reading spells and how to achieve eternal life! It had lots of artifacts and information on Egypt, but we couldn’t read them all as the kids were running around like tornado’s!
There is a floor full of different animals, all stuffed, from lions, zebras, monkeys, birds, to polar bears, wolves, artic fox. There were also rooms where you could learn about the animals and see the skulls, so you can see how they are formed. They even had drawers that you could pull out with different animals in, although I wasn’t keen on the dead hedgehog in one of the drawers.
The insect area again was good, you could keep opening drawers and there were different butterflies and creepy crawlies, some alive ones like a scorpion and spiders in tanks. There were loads of facts, and even body lice replicas!
The planetarium space was great, with an astronaut suit, rockets, and even a meteor that you could touch. It had lots of space facts, and if you wanted to watch the shows, you could pay extra to watch this. We didn’t, as there is plenty to see anyway and they like to go to the gift shop on the way out
They had their own cafe, where you could purchase food and drinks, and next door was the gift shop. We always get a magnet from everywhere we visit, so the boys picked an Egyptian themed one for only £3. They also had small plastic animal toys for 40p! so the boys got some of those.
For anyone with sensory needs, it did not feel busy at all when we visited. It’s over 4 floors and had lots of space to run around and explore. There is no structure, so you can go where ever you like and stay however long you like. Its well protected, so we weren’t worried the kids would accidentally damage anything along the way! you can touch the skulls and crystals, but everything else was behind glass.
For anyone with physical disabilities, the lift takes you to every floor and once on the floors, they are all flat, with easy access through the rooms. There is seating on every floor, as well as toilets, disabled toilets.
We really enjoy a museum, letting the kids run wild, learn about the world and it’s free! It was definitely worth the trip