Liverpool - Merseyside Maritime Museum

The Maritime Museum in Liverpool opened its first permanent exhibition in 1986, "The Emigrants to the New World". It depicts the passage of the seven million emigrants who left the Mersey between 1830 and 1930 for the New World. During the 1840s many Irish were forced to leave their homes because of the famine, in the 1850s countless people rushed to Australia in the search for gold and around the turn of the century there were innumerable emigrants to the USA. Other exhibitions document the history of seafaring in Liverpool, beginning with the 13th C fishing village, through the heyday of the Mersey docks to the modern port development of the 20th C illustrated by model ships, authentic workshops and historic frigates outside the building.