Exhibition in Liverpool

In September our pop-up exhibition reached Liverpool where it remained on display for a month in the foyer of the Maritime & International Slavery Museums on Albert Dock. The Museum had nearly 44.000 visitors throughout the month, including more than 3,000 who attended the Museum’s Border Force Open Day on 14 September, and the exhibition proved very popular.

Alayna Ellis, Curator of Border Collections at National Museums Liverpool said, “It was a real pleasure to host this display, it relates so well to the themes that the Maritime Museum will be developing as part of the Waterfront Transformation Project. The display provided a broad cross section of well-researched personal stories, specific to people migrating to and from the north-west of England, reminding us that migration has always happened and is part of the human condition. Each story reflects an individual person travelling in the hope of improving their life, and the impact on that person can be life changing.”