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Post by Frenchie on Apr 22, 2009 22:14:25 GMT 1
From the Army Museums Ogilby TrustThe Museum of Liverpool Life and the King’s Regiment Museum will close on 4th June 2006. A new museum is being built on the site and will reopen in early 2009. A selection of World War I related regimental items will be displayed in late 2010 with the opening of the main Regimental Gallery planned for late 2011. It will house new displays of the King's Regiment. Until then some of our artefacts will be on display at temporary exhibitions through the city. As details of these become known they will be published on the Museum’s website at www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/about/capitalprojects/ museumofliverpool.asp Archive inquiries should be sent to the Regimental Headquarters at rhq@kings.army.mod.uk
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Post by Eric Roper on May 8, 2009 15:43:41 GMT 1
KING’S REGIMENT MUSEUM COLLECTION Most of you are aware that National Museums Liverpool is the curatorial authority of the King’s Regiment Museum Collection, which was displayed, until recently, in the Museum of Liverpool Life situated at the Pier Head. A new building, The Museum of Liverpool, is now nearing completion and meetings are now being held between curatorial staff and members of the King’s Regiment Museum Advisory Committee to progress the new displays. The committee members currently involved are Professor Donald Richie (Chairman of the King’s Regiment Museum Trustees), Colonel Martin Amlôt and myself (Chairman of the King’s Regiment Museum Advisory Committee). The new Museum of Liverpool will open in 3 stages, starting in 2010. The displays will be in two parts, one concentrating on WW1, the other telling the history of the Regiment over its 320 plus years. The new displays will be designed to include an element of the soldiers’ and families’ stories and link them, where possible, to objects, diaries, letters etc. The museum curator for the King’s Regiment, Karen O’Rourke, and I hope to come along to an Association meeting at Townsend Avenue and talk about the new displays and show some images of what the museum will be like, but in the meantime we are asking if any of you have the sort of stories and/or linked objects that you think may be of interest. We are particularly interested in the period from today to as far back as the 1950s as this is fairly sparsely covered in the current collection. If you think you can help please get in touch with me, with a brief outline of what it is you have, so that we can progress this part of the collection. KEITH HASTIE E-mail khastie@talktalk.net Tel 07976 405 184 Or via Eric Roper - at his usual contact address
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