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"If you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing. We don't want to be apart". John Lennon, interviewed by Howard Smith, 1969
@johnlennon
&
@yokoono
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“In My Life” was the first song that I wrote that was really consciously about my life. It was, I think, my first real major piece of work." - John Lennon
Double Fantasy - John & Yoko
#handwrittenlyrics
#Doublefantasy
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@johnlennon
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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” Grapefruit (Yoko Ono 1964) 🌟
#Doublefantasy
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John & Yoko were married on 20 March 1969. They used the publicity from their wedding and Bed-Ins to highlight their peace campaigning. We ❤️ this image of them on their wedding day.
@johnlennon
@yokoono
#DoubleFantasy
Photo David Nutter (C) Yoko Ono
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“…There was never any question about it; we had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship.” John Lennon.
50 years ago today
@johnlennon
&
@YokoOno
were married. Our new film shows how Yoko's feminism influenced their relationship. ❤️✊
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A message of peace from
@yokoono
and
@johnlennon
in the heart of Liverpool.
Be part of John and Yoko’s
#WARISOVER
campaign by downloading your own poster from
Find out more about the couple’s art and activism at
#DoubleFantasy
:
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"John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him.”
Yoko Ono, press release, 1980
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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Happy Birthday John ❤️
Join us today as we mark what would have been
@johnlennon
's 78th birthday with a free special screening of the restored, remixed and remastered films Imagine and Gimme Some Truth.
More info:
@yokoono
#UltimateImagine
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A moving and beautiful morning showing Yoko around our new exhibition, Double Fantasy.
Opens Friday 18 May.
@yokoono
@johnlennon
#DoubleFantasy
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Workers and shoppers were greeted with a Christmas message this morning from
@johnlennon
and
@yokoono
The
#WARISOVER
campaign is in Liverpool City Centre and across all
@NML_Muse
venues for the next 24 hours. ✌️❤️
@Merseytravel
@IndpndtLiv
@CultureLPool
@VisitLiverpool
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John met Yoko at her exhibition in 1966. Yoko has said she was infuriated at their first meeting, when John took a bite out of the apple she was displaying as a work of art. What followed transformed art, music & activism forever.
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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We are pleased to announce that our block buster exhibition Double Fantasy - John & Yoko has been extended until 3 November 2019. You now have more time to discover the powerful story of this iconic couple. ✌️❤️
#DoubleFantasy
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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"After all is really said and done, The two of us are really one"
John Lennon
Be moved by Double Fantasy - John & Yoko ❤️
@yokoono
@johnlennon
Photo by Keith McMillan ©Yoko Ono
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Yoko Ono will celebrate her 86th birthday on 18 Feb & to mark the occasion we will will be screening her films throughout the day. You can also drop in to hear a free curator talk on the life, art & work of this extraordinary artist.
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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Today we are displaying
@johnlennon
&
@yokoono
's WAR IS OVER campaign on the streets of Liverpool and all
@NML_Muse
venues. The message is still as pertinent as ever it was and the campaign is still alive.
#WARISOVER
#Doublefantasy
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“Thank you for making a beautiful, beautiful show. I have never seen anything like it. Only Liverpool people could do it. Now I feel like I am your family. I feel like I am home” ❤️ Amazing words from
@yokoono
at the launch of
#DoubleFantasy
OPENS TODAY 📷
@photogareth
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“I hope when people see this show they have a sense of the incredible relationship John and I had, and also the power of love. I love you John!”
Read about our visitors' heartfelt responses to the
#DoubleFantasy
exhibition:
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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Above us only blue sky today. 🕶️☀️Come and make a wish for more sunshine, peace and love. 🌞✌️❤️Double Fantasy - John and Yoko
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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"It is very important to have art which is living and changing.
Every phase of life is beautiful; so is every phase of a painting."
Yoko, 1966. Discover the amazing art and life of
@johnlennon
&
@yokoono
in our free
#DoubleFantasy
exhibition.
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#Eurovision2023
is coming to
#Liverpool
!! ✨❤️🌈 🥂 Get ready Europe, it’s going to be an unforgettable show!
@Eurovision
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Remember Love from the exhibition Double Fantasy - John & Yoko, held at Museum of Liverpool from 18 May 2018 to 22 April 2019 🤍🖤
John died on this day 41 years ago.
#JohnLennon
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The docks are going to be filled with music this weekend for
@FolkOnTheDock
A perfect time to discover the transformative musical collaboration of
@johnlennon
&
@yokoono
#DoubleFantasy
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John Lennon born
#OnThisDay
in 1940.
Remembered in our exhibition, 'Double Fantasy: John & Yoko', (May 2018 to April 2019).
#JohnLennon
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"We all shine on" Handwritten lyrics, art, music, film and personal objects from
@johnlennon
&
@yokoono
all on display in our world first exhibition
#DoubleFantasy
✌️❤️
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Be moved and inspired by Double Fantasy - John & Yoko. A story of creativity, activism and love. Free entry. ✌️❤️
@johnlennon
@yokoono
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We are looking great today with the sunshine on us and a bold message of peace across our windows. 😍✌️☀️ If you haven't seen Double Fantasy - John & Yoko yet you are missing a treat.
@yokoono
@johnlennon
#DoubleFanstay
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Moving, magical and motivating. Double Fantasy – John & Yoko will inspire ⭐️you and break your heart. 💔✌️
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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Explore the personal and creative chemistry of this iconic in Double Fantasy John & Yoko .
#DoubleFantasy
@johnlennon
@yokoono
#imagine
#imaginepeace
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Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
✌🏼 🕊 ❣ ☁️
#nationalpoetryday
#doublefantasy
@johnlennon
@yokoono
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It's a gorgeous day at Liverpool's Waterfront 🌞😎, a perfect time to come and make a wish. ⭐️"Amazing things will happen"
@johnlennon
@yokoono
#doublefantasy
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"I had no idea when I met this man in my gallery how everything would change… nothing was ever the same again" Yoko Ono, 2010
Image © Mark McNulty
@yokoono
@JohnLennon
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I M A G I N E P E A C E
New exhibition Double Fantasy- John & Yoko opens a week today.
Open until 10pm on 18 May as part of LightNight
#DoubleFantasy
#LightNight
#yokoono
#johnlennon
#Peace
Image:
@markmcnulty
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Come and make your wish. Amazing things will happen. Double Fantasy - John & Yoko
@johnlennon
@yokoono
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Hip hip hooray! It's our 7th birthday today. 🎂 Check out our gallery of birthday pictures which include the wonderful
@yokoono
. Who would have thought that 7 years on we would be hosting an exhibition about Yoko & John's amazing art & love for each other.
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For 24 hours
@yokoono
and
@johnlennon
‘s WAR IS OVER peace campaign will be seen on the streets of Liverpool.
Show your support for the campaign by tagging us in your pictures.
#WARISOVER
#DoubleFantasy
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Join us tomorrow to mark what would have been
@johnlennon
's 78th birthday with a special free showing of the restored, remixed and remastered films, Imagine and Gimme Some Truth.
More info:
@yokoono
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While the city packs away the glitter balls, sweeps up the sequins and our visitors pack their bags, it's nice to think our 'back to normal' looks as good as this 💕
📸
@petecarr
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If the winter months are bringing you down, come and visit Double Fantasy – John & Yoko for a heart-warming experience that will remind you that amazing things can and will happen.
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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Are you part of a choir, band, or a performer? We need your musical talents.
On 26 May we're doing a Sing-In For Peace to celebrate 50 years since the Montreal Bed-In. Come and share songs of
#PeaceAndLove
! 🎶
Further info and how you can be involved:
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"People are mostly quiet even though so much in here is about joy and peace. A love story about two people which has now lasted for over fifty years."
Thank you
@asenseofplace1
for sharing such a personal response to our exhibition
#DoubleFantasy
@johnlennon
@yokoono
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Smashed it! Today we welcomed
@nealskupski
to the museum with his Wimbledon Doubles trophy.
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Well...that was something quite special. Wiser words have never been worn ⬇️ 😁Congratulations to
@LFC
for a comeback that transcends all boundaries, not just football
#LIVBAR
#NeverGiveUp
🙏🏼
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Happy Birthday
#JodieComer
🎂 🏌🏼♀️🚫🔪😬
Find out more about this iconic
#KillingEve
costume, on display in Wondrous Place 👉🏽
#LiverpoolWondrousPlace
#Villanelle
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We are hosting a free screening of the restored, remixed and remastered films Imagine and Gimme Some Truth on the 9th of October. Marking what would have been the 78th birthday of
@johnlennon
. Image: Iain Macmillan © Yoko Ono
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If you want a memory of your visit to our
#DoubleFantasy
exhibition, this exclusive print of
@johnlennon
and
@yokoono
is available from our online shop, with every purchase supporting National Museums Liverpool!
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We ♥️these
@Johnlennon
stamps which feature a 1974 photo of John Lennon taken by the wonderful rock music photographer
@BobGruen01
for John's Walls and Bridges album. 😎
#DoubleFantasy
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Today marks 80 years since the May Blitz, a devastating week for Liverpool, when 681 planes dropped 870 tonnes of high explosives and more than 112,000 firebombs on the city.
#MayBlitz
#BlitzedLiverpool
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We had a amazing day during the kids takeover day. Thanks to the museum for giving us full control....we had so much fun. Ending our day with our favourite quote from Double Fantasy
#OverandOut
#KidsinMuseums
#TakeoverDay
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OPENING SOON: An exhibition which explores the creative chemistry of
@johnlennon
&
@yokoono
, whose deep & powerful love for one another was expressed through their art, music, film and ongoing Imagine Peace campaign.
#DoubleFantasy
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"Linda’s Hillsborough quilt is an act of love and remembrance for the 97 victims of the Hillsborough disaster"
Ahead of the reopening of the Wondrous Place gallery, artist, Linda Whitfield came to the Museum to add Andrew Devine's name - the 97th victim of Hillsborough. 1/3
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For
#InternationalCatDay
did you know
@johnlennon
was a life-long cat lover? As a young boy he named his pet cat Elvis.
#DoubleFantasy
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Happy Birthday Liverpool - 815 years looks great on you 😍
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“Nobody has got a top floor like the Museum of Liverpool, because nobody has got our history”
Did you catch our starring role in
#DoctorWhoFlux
last night? Filming took place earlier this year with
@johnBishop100
. Watch the spectacular opening scenes👇🏾
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Happy Birthday to our beautiful, passionate and utterly unique city! Liverpool is 811 today! 🎂 We're celebrating all week. Find out more on the blog:
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“I don’t know if it’s because he was born on the same day as me which, that in itself was quite strange – he was born on October 9th – which I was – so we’re almost like twins.”
New blog to mark
@johnlennon
and Sean's birthday:
@yokoono
#UltimateImagine
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Our beautiful Sefton Park was opened
#OnThisDay
in 1872, ‘for the health & enjoyment of the townspeople’ 💛🌳🍂🌷
We’ve raided our collections to bring you this 🧵& celebrate this very special space in the city 💕
Image:
#SeftonPark
circa 1910-30
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“A simple love story perhaps, but the context was the tectonic plates that were shifting in 1966.”
@suzanne_moore
on Double Fantasy - John & Yoko
@yokoono
@johnlennon
#DoubleFantasy
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Very proud to add this new scarf to an already impressive display in Wondrous Place 🧣💪🏾👇🏾
@LiverpoolFCW
ended their season with a brilliant win of the FA Women’s Championship 🏆
#LiverpoolFCWomen
#LFCW
#LFC
#YNWA
#RedTogether
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‘Oh no Ringo!’
We’re sure had they been able to send us a birthday greeting the Fab Four would have been a tad more professional than this bunch 😆✌️🏾
#MuseumofLiverpool10
@ringostarrmusic
@PaulMcCartney
@johnlennon
@GeorgeHarrison
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If you want a memento of your visit to our
#DoubleFantasy
exhibition, this exclusive print of
@johnlennon
and
@yokoono
is available from our online shop, with every purchase supporting
@NML_Muse
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Happy birthday to the city we love to call home. Liverpool you are looking fab-u-lous for an 816 year old.
🥳🎂🎁🎈🎉
📷 Ant Clausen
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Double Fantasy - John & Yoko opens tomorrow.
From the intimate to the iconic, the world-first exhibition tells the story of the couple's personal and creative relationship, through unmissable objects and artworks.
#DoubleFantasy
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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We love this ❤️ It’s a message that still resonates today. You can see objects from John and Yoko's Montreal Ben-In For Peace in our free exhibition Double Fantasy - John & Yoko. ✌️
@yokoono
#DoubleFantasy
"All we are saying is give peace a chance"
#OnThisDay
, July 4th 1969, the Plastic Ono Band released Give Peace A Chance, John's first solo single.
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We asked for you to join us in this special moment in the midst of the wonderful madness of
#Eurovision
and you absolutely answered!
Thank you Liverpool 💛💙
#HelpUkraineSong
#UnitedByMusic
#eurovision
#Eurovision2023
#YNWA
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We’re so sad to wake up to this news this morning. Paul O’Grady - thank you for Lily, the side-splitting laughs, the barriers you smashed and sharing Birkenhead with world 💔
"Magnificent" and "a unique talent" - amongst the tributes to Merseyside-born entertainer, Paul O'Grady, who has died suddenly at the age of 67.
Read more here:
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1/4 “Don’t dip in if you can’t see Jim!” James Clarke was an incredible man. A hero by any standard and a legend in Liverpool. James saved many locals from drowning in the Mersey and the docks, and taught countless others to swim.
#Hero
#BlackLivesMatter
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We opened Double Fantasy: John & Yoko 526 days ago.. and now there are only 4 days left to catch it.
Don't miss this powerful exhibition of love, art and music :
#throwbackThursday
#DoubleFantasy
@johnlennon
@yokoono
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Thank you for your pictures
@StBellarmine
. Looks like you've had a great day at
#DoubleFantasy
❤️
@yokoono
@johnlennon
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A world-first, Double Fantasy John & Yoko featured personal objects alongside art, music and film produced by both John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The exhibition was a moving exploration of the iconic couple’s personal & creative chemistry 🕊️☮️💕
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Very sad to hear of the passing of Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer whose early shots of The Beatles helped turn them into icons. Our condolences to her loved ones. She is pictured here in a moving photo from our collection with then boyfriend Stuart Sutcliffe.
#AstridKirchherr
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💥 From Beatles suits to one of Jodie Comer’s iconic Killing Eve costumes - Wondrous Place, our gallery which celebrates Liverpool’s incredible creative expression and influence, is BACK - reopening 26 November 🎉
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Leroy Cooper, a photographer, writer and activist whose love for Liverpool and the L8 community emanated from his work. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
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The landmark Hillsborough Justice Campaign shop has recently been knocked down. Thanks to the committee we have been able to save some key items for the city. These important objects tell the story of the resilience and determination of the campaigners.
@HJC_Official
@IanByrneMP
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#onthisday
in 2011, the Museum of Liverpool opened. It was built to reflect the city's global significance through its unique geography, history and culture. We can't wait to welcome visitors back inside so we can continue to tell the world about this incredible city! ❤️
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Today we remember the 96 people who lost their lives in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, the courage and spirit of the families they left behind and all those affected by the tragedy.
You’ll never walk alone.
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Make a wish and I'll let it come true for you
Tra-la-la-la-la
love, yoko
#DoubleFantasy
#WishTree
@MuseumLiverpool
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Today we remember the 225 Liverpool men who lost their lives on the First Day of the Somme
#Somme100
@IWM_Centenary
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We’re sad that Eurovision is over, but Kay our curator is still milking it!
Yes, Mel Giedroyc’s actual viral butter churn from the
#Eurovision2023
grand final is one of the Eurovision items we’ve collected to mark this incredible moment for our city, as hosts on behalf of Ukraine
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Today at 3:06pm we will observe a minute’s silence in memory of the 96 Liverpool supporters who lost their lives in the Hillsborough tragedy
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There are lots of free things to see and do at the Museum of Liverpool this weekend. Check out what’s on. 😊
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During an air raid in Sept 1940, two people were sadly killed in this shelter in Stevenson Street, Wavertree.
In this thread we take a look at the heartbreaking images of Liverpool during the Blitz, next to the the same streets today, with the help of
@keithjones84
🧵 1/4
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As we return
#backtowork
, we're spreading unwavering peace and love to all those needing it right now. The beautiful quote from
@yokoono
says 'think peace, act peace, spread peace, imagine peace.' ❤️🧡💚💜💙🤲🏻
#SriLanka
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Wow! We are absolutely made up to win the Best Large Museum award in the
@kidsinmuseums
#FamilyFriendlyMuseum
Awards 2023. This is a wonderful recognition of all our fantastic staff who offer such a warm Liverpool welcome to families every day.
The Best Large Museum winner is
@MuseumLiverpool
!
It impressed our judges again by being family friendly all round, from great facilities to helpful staff. They enjoyed displays of children’s artwork & contemporary issues. Little
#Liverpool
was a big hit!
#FamilyFriendlyMuseum
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Amazing night for Liverpool at
@BAFTA
A special congratulations to
#JodieComer
and
@CathyElizaTyson
for picking up awards for their extraordinary performances in ‘Help’ 👸🏽👸🏼🏆✨
Explore Liverpool on the Stage & Screen in our Wondrous Place gallery
#Baftas2022
#BAFTAS
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Our staff have all got behind the
#WARISOVER
campaign today. If you are in the Museum, take a selfie with one of our placards, which are in the languages most spoken by our visitors, and send your festive message of peace. ✌️❤️🎄
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It's the news we've all been waiting for! We are reopening our doors, along with
@SlaveryMuseum
and
@MerseyMaritime
on 19 August! Entry is still free, but you will need to pre-book tickets before you visit. Booking opens on Friday . See you soon ❤️
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Thinking of this Liverpool legend and his family & friends today 💗
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That sky - our river 🥰
The perfect end to an afternoon listening to stories about our beautiful coastline with
@bbcmerseyside
Listen again -
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We won!! Thanks to everyone who voted. We are thrilled to be the winner of
@myglazing
's Window with a View!
#itsliverpool
#wwav
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