17 Best Museums In Merseyside

Yes, provided you stay on one bank. The city-centre group sits close enough together that Museum of Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery and Victoria Gallery and Museum can be treated as one afternoon with a break in the middle. Port Sunlight Museum is on the other bank and belongs to a different plan, so pair it with the village around it rather than with a second museum.

Because the records follow what a place does rather than what it calls itself. Royal Liver Building 360 and Liverpool Beatles Museum sit under Sightseeing, and Liverpool FC Stadium Tour & Museum under Sports and Activities, even though all three appear on this list. The label matters to a parent because a tour runs to somebody else's pace, while a gallery lets a child set their own.

Point them at the ones with a physical thing at the centre. A stadium, a tower with a view and a wartime command centre all give a child something to walk through and look up at, rather than cases to file past. Walker Art Gallery is the opposite proposition and works better with an older child, or with a younger one who has already run about somewhere else that morning.

Less than in most counties, because every one of the seventeen carries an indoor flag. What the weather does change is the walking between them. Merseyside museums cluster near the water, so a wet, windy day makes the gaps between buildings the unpleasant part of the day rather than the visits themselves. Park once and choose things you can reach on foot.