Museum and Exhibition Visits

I have visited Port Sunlight Museum near Liverpool. The museum situated in the village that was originally created for people who worked on the soap factory of the Lever Brothers company that invented a technology of making soap out of Palm Oil instead of using the animal fat. Village has got a school, a theatre, an Art gallery, a nice park with a fountain, some museums and a church. The Architecture of  houses for factory workers is beautiful, the colourful flowers planted along the streets and gardens give such a warm atmosphere. Some houses were built in Flemish style, with bricks imported from Belgium. In the museum and Art Gallery are represented samples of soap, sculptures of factory workers, paintings, ceramics, jewellery and a lot more. I am really fascinated with posters that were designed for advertising the company with very impressive combination of colours and characters. The video film about William Lever was demonstrated in the museum. William Lever was born on 19 September 1851 at 16 Wood Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England. He was a figure with great reformative ideas in terms of employing women, creating a friendly and comfortable atmosphere for villagers by designing the accommodation for workers ,schools and Art gallery for education ;and taking care for those who retired by giving a pension and organising a health care. Although Lever believed that a workforce that enjoyed decent living conditions would be more productive and as such building housing at Port Sunlight made commercial sense, the project was also a genuine endeavour to raise living standards for the working classes. Lever himself described his hope that the company would “build houses in which our work-people will be able to live and be comfortable. A keen art collector, Lever travelled all over the world and liked to show the villagers the art he collected. William Lever personally supervised planning the village, and employed nearly thirty different architects.The one of the biggest companies The “Lever Brothers” still successful nowadays and supplies the world with products. Some Photographs taken by me represented below: