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Museum · Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Merseyside Maritime Museum

The Merseyside Maritime Museum is National Museums Liverpool's museum of the city's seafaring history, in a warehouse at the Royal Albert Dock.

Why go

The Merseyside Maritime Museum is National Museums Liverpool's maritime museum at the Royal Albert Dock, whose page says its collections cover the RMS Titanic, emigration, customs and borders, the transatlantic slave trade and the merchant navy. As read on 11 October 2026, National Museums Liverpool's page for the museum says it is closed for essential maintenance works ahead of a major redevelopment project, subject to funding, and offers its Old Dock Tour beneath Liverpool ONE while the museum is closed. Check the museum's page for its current status before planning a visit. This record is the museum, not its archives and library or the warehouse building that houses it.

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City

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in Merseyside, England, whose waterfront on the Mersey includes the Royal Albert Dock, opened in 1846; the Metropolitan Cathedral's history page calls mid-19th-century Liverpool a thriving port.

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