Once at the heart of world commerce, the former Albert Dock Traffic Office is being redeveloped into a new entrance pavilion for the International Slavery Museum (ISM) in a National Museums Liverpool project which aims to make the docklands a centre for excellence in the study of black history.
Liverpool to put role in transatlantic slavery under spotlight in £58m revamp project Former Albert Dock Traffic Office to be redeveloped into a new entrance pavilion for the International Slavery Museum.
The £58m revamp of ISM promises partnership with the community throughout, building on the legacies of teacher, feminist and anti-racism activist Dorothy Kuya, who was instrumental in ISM being founded, and Eric Scott Lynch, the civil rights campaigner and trade unionist who first began doing slavery history walks in Liverpool in the 1970s, long before the city formalised acknowledgment of its role.
Another bridge will join Canning Dock with Albert Dock, linking ISM, the Maritime Museum and the Museum of Liverpool more easily.
Michelle Charters, head of International Slavery Museum, said the story of transatlantic slavery was “integral” to the story of Liverpool and its maritime history, adding: “We have to tell the truth.
