Merseyside Maritime Museum Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 4AQ, United Kingdom

The Merseyside Maritime Museum is a museum based in the city of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. It is part of National Museums Liverpool and an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage.

Free entry! Open daily 10am-5pm. The Piermaster's House is open daily 10am-4.30pm.

Parking

There are three blue badge parking spaces in the car park on the left hand side of the road leading into the Albert Dock, opposite the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Building (the former Granada Television building, previously known as the Dock Traffic Office). These are about 150 yards from the main entrance to the museum. The route from this car park to the museum entrance is paved, and involves crossing one road at a pedestrian crossing.

Another four designated blue badge spaces are available in the on-street parking on the approach road, which are slightly further away from the museum building. Charges apply for parking in both these areas.

In the museum

• All sites have adapted toilet facilities, with the exception of the Piermaster's House.
• A Changing Places toilet is available on the second floor of the museum, adjacent to the 'Titanic and Liverpool: the untold story' gallery.
• Guide and hearing dogs welcome.
• Sound sticks (telephones) can assist people using hearing aids in most parts of the museum, except for some features of the Battle for the Atlantic gallery.
• Seating is available in the galleries.
• Table service is available in the ground floor café and the Maritime Dining Room on the top floor.

Group visits

If you would like to visit the museum and have specific access requirements for your group, please contact Joyce Parr  joyce.parr@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk to discuss these. We offer tactile sessions for booked groups using our handling collections including All hands on deck and Customs contraband. 

Wheelchair access

There are two ramped accesses (gradients 1:12 and 1:15) and a lift to all floors.

There is access to every floor but due to evacuation procedures we have to restrict the number of wheelchair users on each floor at any one time; as follows:

• Ground floor and 4th floor: 8 persons per floor
• Basement and 1st to 3rd floors: 2 persons per floor

Quaysides (when open) are accessible to wheelchair users, although uneven.

Unfortunately the museum ships, the Piermaster's House and some interactives in the Life at sea gallery on the first floor are inaccessible to wheelchair users.