The summer exhibition is in time for the Year of the Sea celebrations and is aimed at both adults and children with a fun theme and feeling throughout - reminding everyone there of just how how little has changed over the years.Ìý Children can get a real feeling of what is was like to play by the sea in Victorian times with the chance to dress up in traditional seaside fancy dress costumes too, create their own seaside postcards and watch Punch and Judy shows too!
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The famous art works are on loan from the Walker and Tate Britain among other leading galleries, and show scenes such as children running along the pier, families playing in rock pools with heavy dresses tucked into pantaloons and women walking along promenades looking at the activity on the beach. Sandra Penketh, head of the Lady lever Art Gallery said: "Galleries are for everybody, you don't need to know lots about art to get something out of it, they're fun, colourful and happy and make you think 'I remember doing that as a kid!'" Nearly half of the exhibition is made up of artwork by Birkenhead born artist and one of the best known seaside painters Philip Wilson Steer. Other prominent artists featured at the exhibition include Dame Laura Knight, Charles Conder, Elizabeth Forbes, Edward Atkinson Hornel, Henry Scott Tuke and Stanhope Alexander Forbes, all of which make up a nostalgic feeling of being at the seaside in Victorian and Edwardian times. As Sandra Penketh said "Liverpool has a particular affiliation with the sea, people come to the city via the sea - it's part of the character of Merseyside really." The exhibition is split into four sections: ‘Bathing and Paddling’, ‘The Beach’, ‘Nature’ and ‘The View’, and entrance is free. | 
