Prescot Museum — Attraction in Knowsley

Since Knowsley Council started to pick on its Culture and Leisure department for cuts, rather than cutting the salaries of it's executives who earn more than the Prime Minister and the Cabinet; Prescot Museum is now a shadow of it's former self having been moved from it's original location to share with the library. It has now been reduced to a handful of sorry exhibits that explain nothing about the proud history of a town that has been left to rack and ruin by a local government administration that favours...

A very concise display of local history, interesting but limited to a few pieces of what is a complex hidtory. However there are lots of information boards scatered around the shopping area that elaborate on some aspects of the towns history. Its free so no real complaints and I got to see more of the town than I expected. Its a shame that the old museum had no close, but the organisers of the museum have done a great job of maintaining the essence of a museum, with such...

You can't really call it a museum. It's the sort of display you may expect to find in a school corridor. Unfortunately lack of visitors to the old museum probably made it an easy decision for the accountants and so we got what we deserve - a few glass cases in a one stop...