Pete Carr Photo

Writer & Photographer

As the sun sets the red brick Maritime Museum glows orange against a blue sky. The dock water is calm.

Merseyside Maritime Museum gallery update

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The 2nd floor of the Maritime Museum in Liverpool was recently renovated. New ideas, new displays, new objects to learn about. There are interesting displays about the Titanic and its connection to Liverpool and others looking at life on board ships. I was commissioned to photograph the renovation.

I really enjoy this sort of work. As an autistic person I sometimes find it hard to concentrate in a gallery due to all the voices and people moving around. I’ve found a way of combatting that is by using a camera as it shrinks my world down to whatever is in the viewfinder. My ADHD side is constantly going “Ooooh what’s that?” and it wants to explore. I get to learn, explore and produce work that helps a good client.

Victorian red brick building in late afternoon light. There is a sign on it saying "Merseyside Maritime Museum".
Inside a museum gallery. It has a red brick ceiling. There are mannequins inside the display window wearing various clothes that you might find on a cruise liner in the early 1900s.
Models of ships stacked up in a display cabinet ranging from tiny to the size that requires two hands to carry. The larger ones are sailing ships while the smaller are tankers, cargo containers and cruise ships.
Gallery floor view showing objects looking at life on board ships. In the centre is a women's uniform in white.
A very large model of the Titanic in a display case. It is about 3 meters wide.
Close up view of a model of the front of the Titanic cruise ship.
Various dinning and table centre piece objects coated in gold that would be used in first class dinning areas on a ship.
A large model of the Titanic reflected in the windows of the cabinet.
Inside a gallery about Liverpool and ships. There are lots of different cabinets with various objects inside them.
A close up view of an art deco styled piece of art. It depicts an archer possibly relating to astrology.
Outside the Merseyside Maritime Museum people walk past a large anchor.
Outside the corner of a red brick museum in Albert Dock, two people wearing a red coat and the other a blue coat walk along the cobbled street.
Looking at the side of the Maritime Museum as the sun sets through the top of the large anchor resting outside it.

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