The Beat Goes On

The Beat Goes On, a four-year project exploring the popular music history of Merseyside, resulted in an exhibition staged at World Museum Liverpool, which ran for 15 months and attracted 478,188 visitors. Led by Sara Cohen and Marion Leonard, the project was based on a partnership with National Museums Liverpool (NML) and the exhibition was curated by Marion during a secondment to NML. Among the many diverse exhibits were 200 items from the IPM Collections and Mapping the Beat, a digital interactive installation produced by Sara and Brett Lashua and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and English Heritage. The exhibition was accompanied by The Beat Goes Online, an online resource produced by a team of IPM staff and research students, and the book The Beat Goes On edited by Marion Leonard and Rob Strachan.  Read more here...