Things to do and places to visit every single day of the week!
...at the Walker Art Gallery:
- Create your own art with Big Art for Little Artists, learn and have fun
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Dress up as characters from paintings and pose on a throne
- Read books, Listen to stories, watch videos and play with puppets
- Chill out in the mood room - exploring sounds associated with colour.
- Use Big Art as a starting point to explore the rest of the gallery's amazing works of art.
- Free entry!
Where?
The Big Art for Little Artists gallery is on the ground floor of the Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL.
Open daily 10am - 4.30pm
...at the World Museum
- Marvel at the Ancient Egypt gallery, with objects over 6000 years old including mummies
- Handle objects from World Museum Liverpool's collections at the Weston Discovery Centre
- Get hands on at the award-winning Clore Natural History Centre. You can touch a hippopotamus skull, examine an exotic tropical butterfly or hold a mammoth tooth.
- Visit the Bug House, with real live colonies of bugs!
- Find out fishy facts without getting your hands wet in the aquarium
- Blast off on a spectacular journey through space and time, learning about the Universe around you on the way at the Planetarium.
- Free entry!
Where?
World Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EN.
Open daily 10am - 5pm.
...at the Maritime Museum:
- Drop in to the Sea Urchins play area for families with young children aged 8 and under.
- Join in with free maritime-themed activities
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Dress up as a lobster, a mermaid, a sailor or even a pirate for some seafaring adventures - without ever leaving dry land!
- Free entry!
Where?
First floor, Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4AQ.
Open daily 10am - 5pm
...at Lady Lever Art Gallery:
- Have fun with an Artbase Trolley with materials for dressing up and drawing.
- Keep little minds busy with children's work sheets
- Explore the fascinating galleries with gallery trails.
- There are grassy areas around the Lady Lever Art Gallery which can be used for a picnic and a run-around on a nice day
- Free entry!
Where?
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Lower Road, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5EQ.
Open daily 10am - 5pm.
...at
Sudley House:
- Revert to you own childhood in the special Childhood and Small World rooms, with a Noah's Ark, dolls' houses and other toys to play with.
- Stretch your legs or bring a picnic in the big garden
- Tearoom staff are happy to warm bottles
- Free entry!
Where?
Sudley House, Mossley Hill Road, Liverpool, L18 8BX.
Open daily 10am - 5pm.
...at the Bluecoat:
- Explore Tins are available to borrow every day. Explore Tins are selection boxes of fun family activities that you can do while exploring the galleries.
- Learn along the way with creative experiments and find new ways of enjoying art together.
- Relax and enjoy the wonderful courtyard garden.
- Free entry!
Where?
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX.
Open daily 10am - 6pm
..
The Dream:
- This piece of public art from Liverpool Biennial has recently been on TV - why not come and see the real thing?
- Marvel at the dramatic new sculpture of a girl's head staring out across the hills. She's 20 metres high!
- Panoramic views for miles around
- Attractive woodland area with plenty of leisurely paths and picnic spots
- Spot buzzards and kestrels, rabbits, hares and partridge
- Free entry!
Where?
Sutton Manor Colliery Site, Sutton Woodland, Jubits Lane, St.Helens, Merseyside, WA9 4BB
Daily!
...Turning the Place Over:
- Another piece of public art from Liverpool Biennial, this is a building which turns itself inside out.
- Why not get off the train a stop early (at Moorfields station) to see this mind-boggling sculpture? It will only take a few minutes to watch, but you'll remember it for years!
- Free to view!
Where?
Cross Keys House, Opposite Moorfields station, Liverpool City Centre.
Daily! (It runs in daylight hours.)
...Another Place:
- One of the most famous of Liverpool Biennial's public art works
- 100 cast-iron life size sculptures - have fun spotting them all.
- Beach location, ideal for fun activities such as bird watching, flying kites, walking, picnics.
- There's also a children's play area is situated onsite, near the South Road access point and close to the main car park near the lake.
- Free!
Where?
Crosby Beach, Liverpool, Merseyside L23
Daily!
Visitors to Another Place are advised to consult tide times beforehand (www.seftoncoast.org.uk) and not to walk out onto the sand further than 50 metres from the promenade.
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