Liverpool Museums
01-19-2010, 02:00 PM
http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/graphics/beatles_stage.jpgStPeter's Church Hall Stage where John Lennon and Paul McCartney met in 1957
As we highlighted on yesterday’s blog, National Museums Liverpool is part of 350 museumsand institutions across the country to have teamed up with the BBC for A Historyof the World project.
The BBC revealed yesterday a list of 10objects (http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/liverpool/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8458000/8458957.stm) chosen to tell a history of Merseyside and its place in the world. Fiveof these objects are part of National Museums Liverpool’s collection, and each willbe featured on BBC Radio Merseyside over the next two weeks.
Tony Snell’s breakfast programmeyesterday (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001rshn) revealed the first object to be StPeter’s Church Hall Stage (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/beatles/misc/stage.aspx), and our curator of contemporary collecting Paul Gallagher, canbe heard telling the story of the stage and its place in history.
Who’d have thought that in 1957, the stage would provide the meeting point for theworld’s greatest song writing team, and signal the beginnings of the ‘Fab Four’?
The stage was most recently on display in TheBeat Goes On (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/exhibitions/thebeatgoeson/resource/) exhibition which told the story of Liverpool’s musical heritageat WorldMuseum (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/), and will be on display at the new Museumof Liverpool (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/)when it opens in Spring 2011.
More... (http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/TheStageIsSet.aspx)
As we highlighted on yesterday’s blog, National Museums Liverpool is part of 350 museumsand institutions across the country to have teamed up with the BBC for A Historyof the World project.
The BBC revealed yesterday a list of 10objects (http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/liverpool/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8458000/8458957.stm) chosen to tell a history of Merseyside and its place in the world. Fiveof these objects are part of National Museums Liverpool’s collection, and each willbe featured on BBC Radio Merseyside over the next two weeks.
Tony Snell’s breakfast programmeyesterday (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001rshn) revealed the first object to be StPeter’s Church Hall Stage (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/beatles/misc/stage.aspx), and our curator of contemporary collecting Paul Gallagher, canbe heard telling the story of the stage and its place in history.
Who’d have thought that in 1957, the stage would provide the meeting point for theworld’s greatest song writing team, and signal the beginnings of the ‘Fab Four’?
The stage was most recently on display in TheBeat Goes On (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/exhibitions/thebeatgoeson/resource/) exhibition which told the story of Liverpool’s musical heritageat WorldMuseum (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/), and will be on display at the new Museumof Liverpool (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/)when it opens in Spring 2011.
More... (http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/TheStageIsSet.aspx)