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Emerging from Lime Street Station - whose cast-iron train shed was the largest in the world on its completion in 1867 - you can't miss St George's Hall , one of Britain's finest Greek Revival buildings. Once Liverpool's concert hall and crown courts, its tunnel-vaulted Great Hall is open to the public for monthly craft and antique fairs and for daily guided tours in summer (late-July & Aug Mon-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm), when the exquisite floor, tiled with thirty thousand precious Minton tiles, is on show. Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery on William Brown Street (Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun noon-5pm; GBP3, free with NMGM Eight Pass) houses one of the country's finest provincial art collections, with pieces dating from the fourteenth century to the present day. Major renovations have restored many of the galleries and added new space for temporary exhibitions. There's often a good range of Italian work on show, together with works by Rembrandt, Rubens and other seventeenth-century masters, but here, as in Manchester, British painting occupies centre stage. The gallery also displays exhibits from its large applied-art collection - glassware, ceramics, precious metals, and sculpted furniture, largely retrieved from the homes of the city's early industrial businessmen. Contemporary work floods the building during the John Moores Exhibition, usually held here from October of odd-numbered years to the following January. Further along William Brown Street the Liverpool Museum (Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun noon-5pm; GBP3, free with NMGM Eight Pass) has also had a major overhaul and certain sections may still be closed during your visit. What is on display is eclectic to say the least, from tarantulas to a space rocket, and it's an appealing diversity which grows on you the longer you stay. The museum had its origins in the natural history collections bequeathed by the Earl of Derby in the mid-nineteenth century, and these have subsequently been augmented by some superior fossil, natural habitat and evolution exhibits. Make time too for the Planetarium (GBP1); there's also a cafe.
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