Port Sunlight Museum & Garden Village

Escape for the day to Port Sunlight, an amazing garden village with a fascinating history just waiting to be discovered.

Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 by William Hesketh Lever for his Sunlight Soap factory workers, providing a standard of living much higher than many other industrial settlements of the time. The village, located on the Wirral Peninsular nestling between Chester and Liverpool, is simply breathtaking.

An ideal place to start your visit to this magnificent village is Port Sunlight Museum. The museum offers a unique insight into the way of life for the very first villagers and workers of Port Sunlight during late Victorian and Edwardian times.

Within the museum:

Watch ‘Sunlight Spirit’, a film show set in 1914
Meet life size models of the visionary, William Hesketh Lever and the principal architect, James Lomax-Simpson
See real village memorabilia
Explore a large scale model of the village with an interactive touch screen
Design your own Port Sunlight house or soap packaging using our hands – on interactives
Enjoy our exhibition panels with information about what it was like to live and work in Port Sunlight.
Recreated ‘Port Sunlight’ kitchen parlour room
Lever Brother’s Employee Excursion’s Display – early 1900s Blackpool

Please contact tghe museum for details about our package deals for groups and tours of the Village.