Explore Liverpool

The Museum of Liverpool tells the history of the city and its people in a purpose-built building on Mann Island at the Pier Head, designed by the Danish practice 3XN and opened in 2011. Its galleries cover the port, migration, sport and music, and among more than 6,000 objects they show the 1838 steam locomotive Lion.

World Museum is Liverpool's museum of archaeology, world cultures and natural science, begun in 1851 with the Earl of Derby's natural history collection and housed on William Brown Street since 1860. It holds about 15,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan and has a Bug House with live insects and a planetarium opened in 1970.

The Royal Albert Dock is a group of five dock warehouses around a water basin on Liverpool's waterfront, designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick and opened in 1846. Built of cast iron, brick and stone with no structural timber, the Grade I listed buildings now hold museums, galleries, shops and restaurants.

The Walker Art Gallery is Liverpool's main public art gallery, a neoclassical building on William Brown Street opened in 1877 and named after the brewer and mayor Sir Andrew Barclay Walker. Its collection runs from early Italian and Netherlandish paintings to Rembrandt and Degas, with a large group of Pre-Raphaelite works and 20th-century British art.

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King is Liverpool's Roman Catholic cathedral, built from 1962 to 1967 to a design by Frederick Gibberd. Its circular concrete building is crowned by a lantern tower of coloured glass above the central altar. Beneath it lies the crypt of a far larger cathedral designed by Edwin Lutyens in the 1930s and never completed.

Liverpool Cathedral is the Church of England cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, built between 1904 and 1978 to a design by Giles Gilbert Scott. With the Lady Chapel the red sandstone building is 189 metres long, and its central tower rises 101 metres; visitors can go up the tower. It stands at the southern end of Hope Street.

Sefton Park is a 95-hectare Victorian park in south Liverpool, designed by the French landscape architect Édouard André with Lewis Hornblower and opened in 1872. Paths wind around a boating lake, the Fairy Glen with its waterfalls and stepping stones, and the glass Palm House of 1896, whose corners carry statues of explorers and botanists.