World Museum
Grand museum of world cultures, ancient Egypt, natural history and space, rebuilt after wartime fire.
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This guide to World Museum on Liverpool's William Brown Street follows the people who worked inside it during and after the Blitz of May nineteen forty-one, from the director on duty that night to a curator of antiquities named Elaine Tankard. It asks what a museum's staff do when their building and much of their collection are gone. Along the way you'll meet a seal called Sammy, an army officer and his wife with ties to Tibet, and an exhibition staged in the gallery next door.
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