The Museums That Make Us: Liverpool

Immigration has been part of Liverpool's story for centuries. As a port city communities from all over the globe settled there, but it was the Irish immigration, particularly during the time of the famine, that had the most dramatic impact. As Neil MacGregor discovers, the Museum of Liverpool has chosen a Jewish butcher's shop to illustrate that it wasn't just Irish Immigrants who made the city their own. Galkoff's green tiled frontage was a familiar sight to many Liverpudlians, including the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture and Sport Nadine Dorries. It now has a permanent place in the museum, along with stories from the Galkoff family who ran it and the many people living in the neighbourhood of Pembroke Place