Work with our expert natural history team who will share their knowledge and access to World Museum's extraordinary collections as you hone your skills in sketching, observation and communicating texture in your art. These regular still-life drawing sessions will each feature a small display of items from our natural history handling collections for you to explore as you develop your skills. All sessions will be held at the World Museum and will have very limited places to maintain a relaxed and intimate atmosphere. These sessions are self-directed and so are suitable for absolute beginners as well as more experienced artists. Basic art materials will be provided but if you would like to bring your own you are welcome to. Please note that there are limited facilities for washing brushes or palettes.

In this short course, participants will learn about one of the world’s most ancient and enduring civilizations, Ancient Egypt. This course will be hosted at Liverpool’s World Museum, which houses some of the UK’s best Ancient Egyptian collections. The course includes talks, gallery tours, behind-the-scenes sessions, real object handling, and discussions with Egyptology specialists. It's suitable for beginners and those with an intermediate understanding of Egyptology. This includes six led sessions at World Museum Liverpool and the optional visit to the museum’s closed-off antiquities stores. The course will run across six Saturday from 17 August till 21 September at 1 - 3.30pm. The optional visit to the stores will be on the afternoon of Friday 27 September. What you'll learn each week: Week One: The Geography of Ancient Egypt - We will study the natural landscape in which the Egyptians built their civilisation, as well as their relationships with neighbouring regions. Week Two: Overview of the Dynastic Period (part one) - We will cover the first 1500 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the key changes and personalities between the unification of the country about 3100 BC until the end of the Middle Kingdom. We’ll meet the builders of Egypt’s greatest pyramids, like Imhotep, Djoser, and Khufu, and Egypt’s expansionist warrior kings like Senwosret III. Week Three: The Dynastic Period (part two) - We'll discuss the development of Egypt’s New Kingdom, focusing on personalities like Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and Ramesses II. We will also cover the collapse of the empire and the end of pharaonic civilisation. Week Four: Ancient Egyptian Religion - We'll cover the complex subject of Egyptian religion and how beliefs changed over time. Discover the Egyptians' beliefs about the creation and maintenance of the world, and the attributes of Egypt’s most enduring deities. Week Five: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Practice - The Ancient Egyptians are probably best known today because of their funerary customs, leading many people to assume they were ‘obsessed by death’. This week we’ll challenge some of these notions and give an overview of the changing mortuary practices throughout Pharaonic history. We’ll discuss Egyptians' ideas of the soul, the practice of mummification, and the importance of creating a tomb for eternity. Week Six: Legacies of Ancient Egypt - In our final session, we'll explore the rediscovery of Ancient Egypt through centuries of exploration and archaeology. We'll discuss major discoveries like Tutankhamun’s tomb and consider the future of Egyptology. Participants will also get a special chance to visit the museum’s closed-off antiquities stores and interact with real objects and the curatorial team.

Join us at the World Museum for a tour of one of the UK’s most outstanding collections of Ancient Egyptian artefacts. For group bookings of 10 or more, please contact our Box Office by email at [email protected] or on 0151 478 4444 (10am-5pm). If you enjoy this tour, considerer joining us for Collections in Focus: The Pre-Raphaelites. Or, if you want to uncover Liverpool's hidden history, join us for the Old Dock Tour. All tickets are available through our website, or via our Box Office.

This session is a 45 minute calm, baby-friendly sensory session in our darkened Aquarium, designed for babies under 12 months. Enjoy glowing lights, soft blankets and bubbles in a relaxing space.

During this study day we will look at the development of pyramid building in Egypt, looking at the successes but also some of the learning curves that caused other pyramids to bend, bow, and even collapse.

Step aboard for Spotlight Day: Titanic at Liverpool’s World Museum, an immersive, one-day event exploring the story of the world’s most famous ship.

Join us for a captivating one-day deep dive into the ancient world of the Hittites, one of the most powerful and enigmatic civilizations of the Late Bronze Age.

Ancient Egypt Extra at World Museum Liverpool is a specially designed session that combines a guided tour of the Ancient Egypt Gallery with an exclusive hands-on handling experience.

A one-day workshop with Steve Compton on identifying chalcid wasps, covering their ecology and anatomy. Participants will learn to distinguish British families of these diverse, metallic insects.

This two-day workshop with David Clements will cover the identification and biology of flies in the families Tephritidae, Ulidiidae, Platystomatidae, Pallopteridae and Opomyzidae – the main families of the so-called ‘picture-winged flies’.