Liverpool Sights

  1. Albert Dock

    Liverpool's biggest tourist attraction is Albert Dock, 2.75 hectares of water ringed by a colonnade of enormous cast-iron columns and impressive five-storey warehouses that make up the country's largest collection of protected buildings, and now a World Heritage Site. A fabulous development programme has really brought the dock to life; here you'll find several outstanding museums and an extension of London's Tate Gallery, as well as a couple of top-class restaurants and bars.

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  2. Beatles Story

    Liverpool's most popular museum won't illuminate any dark, juicy corners in the turbulent history of the world's most famous foursome - there's ne'er a mention of internal discord, drugs, Yoko Ono or the Frog Song - but there's plenty of genuine memorabilia to keep a Beatles fan happy.

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  3. Combined Headquarters of the Western Approaches

    The Combined Headquarters of the Western Approaches, the secret command centre for the Battle of the Atlantic, was abandoned at the end of the war with virtually everything left intact. You can get a good glimpse of the labyrinthine nerve centre of Allied operations.

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  4. Fact Media Centre

    Proof that Ropewalks has more to offer than just booze and bars, this media centre - whose acronym stands for Foundation for Art & Creative Technology - showcases film and new media such as digital art.

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  5. Merseyside Maritime Museum

    The story of one of the world's great ports is the theme of the excellent Merseyside Maritime Museum and believe us, it's a graphic and compelling page-turner. One of the many great exhibits is Emigration to a New World, which tells the story of nine million emigrants and their efforts to get to North America and Australia; the walk-through model of a typical ship shows just how tough conditions on board really were.

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  7. National Conservation Centre

    If you've ever wondered how art actually gets restored, you'll get your chance at this terrific centre, which is unconventionally housed in a converted railway good depot. Hand-held wands help tell the story of the processes involved, but the real fun is actually attempting a restoration technique with your own hands.

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  8. Tate Liverpool

    Touted as the home of modern art in the north, the Tate Liverpool gallery features a substantial check-list of 20th-century artists across its four floors as well as touring exhibitions from the Mother Ship on London's Bankside. But it's all a little sparse, with none of the energy we'd expect from the world-famous Tate.

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  9. Walker Art Gallery

    Liquid brown eyes, luscious long hair and an enigmatic smile... No, we're not talking George Harrison circa 1965 - we're talking about all those Pre-Raphaelite beauties on show at Liverpool's superb Walker Art Gallery. Visual treats include Rossetti's Dante's Dream , Millais' Lorenzo & Isabella and Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience .

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  10. World Museum

    Natural history, science and technology are the themes of thes sprawling World Museum, whose exhibits range from birds of prey to space exploration. It also includes the country's only free planetarium.

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