Western Approaches Museum 2025
Walk through hidden rooms and discover the stories locked in the wartime bunker that protected the tactics and secrets of the British Armed Forces plotting to bulwark the Western Approaches and aid the Allied victory. The Map Room has remained exactly how as it was left when the doors were closed on 15th August 1945.
Contacts
Operator: Big Heritage
Address: 1-3 Rumford Street Exchange Flags Liverpool Merseyside L2 8SZ
- Telephone: 0151 227 2008
- Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- Website: View website
Open Days & Times
Daily 1000-1800. Visit website or facebook for more details and advance booking.
Travel
- By Bus: various
- By Rail: Liverpool Lime Street / 0.5 miles
Facilities
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Glimpse the documents and tools the forces used to monitor enemy convoys and inform the British government of their findings whilst keeping their intelligence secret from the enemy, including one of only two surviving wartime phones which had a direct connection to the war cabinet in London.
See where commanders and WRNS and WAAF personnel worked every day and night in the Map Room, the nerve centre of the Battle of the Atlantic. Here they monitored convoy routes and vital shipping lines, and pin-pointed enemy locations on a huge map laid across the table; total accuracy was necessary to enable the Royal Navy to contact and destroy the enemy.
NOTE: New Wren Museum opening on 26th May.
