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Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visit Museum of Liverpool Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visit Museum of Liverpool
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are to visit the Museum of Liverpool later ahead of the opening of a new set of galleries on Friday. The Queen has officially opened the new Museum of Liverpool, ahead of the opening of more galleries on Friday.
The Queen will unveil a plaque and sign the visitors' book to commemorate the visit to the waterfront museum which opened in July. She arrived in the city by train with the Duke of Edinburgh to open the £72m museum, which opened in July.
The royal couple will take separate tours of the museums galleries including the new Great Port Gallery. The royal couple were given a 50-minute tour of the new building on the city's waterfront. The Queen then unveiled a plaque to commemorate the occasion.
They will then travel to New Brighton's Floral Pavilion for lunch. They are due to travel to the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton, Wirral, for lunch.
Phil Redmond, chair of National Museums Liverpool, said: "It really is an honour that the new museum has been chosen to take part in this visit, which will also see the royal party visiting other locations around the city. The Queen, wearing a burgundy wool coat and dress by Karl Ludvig with a matching hat by Angela Kelly, was shown around the museum by writer Phil Redmond, who is its chairman.
"We look forward to welcoming the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to the city's historic waterfront, and giving them a real sense of Liverpool, its history and its people all under one roof." "She was really interested and got engaged in a lot of things as we walked around," he said.
The Museum of Liverpool will be closed to the public all day. He added: "I had forgotten to invite her to sign the guest book and she told me 'You are supposed to get me to sign the book'."
Exhibits in the new galleries include a carriage from Liverpool's Overhead Railway and a 19th Century steam locomotive called Lion used on the original Liverpool to Manchester railway.Exhibits in the new galleries include a carriage from Liverpool's Overhead Railway and a 19th Century steam locomotive called Lion used on the original Liverpool to Manchester railway.