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Army of tourists see Terracotta


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WHAT ELSE TO SEE AT NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF LIVERPOOL


� Double Fantasy – John & Yoko (until April 22 2019)


The Museum of Liverpool tells the story of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their own words


� Tales from the City (until March 31 2019)


This exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool explores Liverpool’s LGBT+ stories to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act


� Titanic & Liverpool: the untold story – Open daily, this exhibition is at Merseyside Maritime Museum


� Leonardo da Vinci – A Life In Drawing (February 1-May 6 2019) Twelve drawings will go on display at the Walker, as part of a nationwide commemoration of the 500th anniversary of da Vinci’s death.


� Charles Rennie Mackintosh (March 15-August 26 2019)


This exhibition at the Walker gallery will present about 200 objects in the ‘Glasgow Style’ of Mackintosh and his contemporaries.


28 TravelGBI | July-August 2018


A blockbuster exhibition at Liverpool’s World Museum boosted the city’s economy by £20 million in the first half of 2018. Samantha Mayling reports from Merseyside


or more than 2,000 years, an underground army of life-sized terracotta warriors guarded the tomb of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang. A chance discovery in 1974 revealed


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this mysterious empire – and now objects from one of the world’s greatest archaeological discoveries can be seen in Liverpool. Called China’s First Emperor and the


Terracotta Warriors, it opened in February at the World Museum – part of National Museums Liverpool (NML). It has become the most popular


exhibition NML has ever held, with about half a million people expected to visit throughout the exhibition’s run, which ends on October 28. The exhibition has also helped NML


report record visitor figures, as the group’s eight venues welcomed 3.3 million visitors for 2017-18, up 9% on 2016-17.


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� STAYING VISITS Furthermore, an estimated 36% of visitors to NML museums are on staying visits from outside the city region. NML estimates the Terracotta


Warriors exhibition has already driven around 65,000 staying visits to Liverpool and a wider contribution to the local economy of more than £20 million in its first three months. The 2017-18 season was also a very


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