Liverpool Museum and the Mountford building formed the major part of the NMGM 2001 redevelopment of William Brown Street. The project refurbished 1,600 sq m of historic buildings across three sites, and restored 8,000 sq m of galleries.

The key requirements were to improve the circulation through the Museum. A complete new entrance and circulation route was formed. A major upgrade of the building services necessitated new plant rooms at roof and basement levels.

The main works at Liverpool Museum included:

• Extension of the Museum by linking the lower floors of the adjacent grade II* listed Mountford building.
• Forming a new street level entrance and a six storey atrium, creating a circulation spine at the centre of the museum. Tall external mast signage.
• Restoration of the horseshoe shaped galleries.
• New plant rooms and substation to cater for extensive alterations to the buildings services.
• Underpinning of the existing walls to accommodate the lower basement plant room.
• Enhancements to the display of the museum’s collection of rare and fragile objects.
• A new Aquarium with “hands on” living laboratories.
• Creation of a virtual reality and multimedia presentation theatre known as ‘InfoWorld’.