In brief

The Museum of Liverpool, which opened in July, is to unveil four galleries this month: the Great Port, which charts the history of the city’s docks; the History Detectives, which features a 38-metre travellers’ timeline; the City Soldiers; and the Liverpool Overhead Railway. Meanwhile, the museum has been named as “one of the greenest museums on earth” in a CNN documentary.


The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry is offering a new watercolour (above) by Turner Prize nominee George Shaw as a competition prize in a bid to “get Coventry creating”. Entrants are required to create a work of art depicting a Coventry landscape. The gallery is hosting a free exhibition of Shaw’s paintings until 11 March 2012.


Work has begun on the Irish World Heritage Centre based in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester. The venue, scheduled to open by summer 2012, will house the Irish Diaspora Museum, which will tell the story of Irish emigration through a series of thematic displays. The new building is modelled on an ancient Irish ring fort.


The Timespan Museum and Arts Centre in the Scottish Highlands is using social media to gather accounts of women’s resistance during the Highland Clearances. The project marks the fact that 2013 is the 200th anniversary of the clearances in the Strath of Kildonan. Museum without Walls will use Facebook, Twitter, a new website and a smartphone app.