The staff here were really friendly and made our visit very enjoyable. The museum itself has a few interesting things but overall it's disappointing. There is just so much that could/should be there that's missing. It felt a bit like a bargain basement Hard Rock Café. It was also relatively expensive to get in.

First and last visit , thought it was overpriced and the guy looking after the guitars was terrible. This was supposed to be an interactive experience but he was rude to our children about handling the guitars! First thing they weren’t breaking them and if you’d shown any interest in helping how to use the booths etc and secondly why have as you put it “ expensive “ guitars out if they are not supposed to be used We were told it was a fun interactive experience for the whole family- it wasn’t

Firstly, it's one floor, no more no less, so when you walk in, your first view is pretty accurate for size Secondly the exhibits are better than they first appear with plenty of unique and historically important pieces on display from one of Noel's guitars, a dress worn by Dusty Spri gfield to Lemmy's boots. There's not an abundance, but what they have is a level above your average Hard Rock Cafe. Oh and the hologram of Boy George singing us a song...inexpected bonus! Entertaining yes, different yes, overpriced yes.

For quite a hefty admission price we were slightly underwhelmed by what was on offer. The central exhibits we faced when entering where ABBA on one side and the Ukraine Eurovision winners outfits on the other side. The central big screen was showing the history of the Eurovision song contest.. this entrance really lowered expections of what would be a British music experience.Things picked up when we we found the interactive Gibson corner where you could try your hand with numerous guitars and an electronic drum kit, listening through headphones as you did so.there is very little or nothing or lots of our music icons that i was expecting to see(Rolling Stones, Freddy Mercury,Tom Jones, Elton John, Cliff Richard and the Beatles) that has been popular for decades. Overall the experience to our group seemed to be an in-coherent collection of random costumes/memorabilia in nice display cabinets and fancy building.

We had read several reviews about how this place hadn't lived up to expectations so we tried to go with an open mind. The entrance fee was £19 pp. There were several displays covering various decades and genres - punk, glam rock etc (why nothing on Disco?) and had items donated from celebrities etc. Of course some of the items were interesting but overall we too, left a little disappointed. £19 felt too much, £15 maybe. At least the cafe seemed fairly good VFM.

Due to poor weather we decided to give one of the museums a go, as we aren’t particularly museum people we thought the BME would be best suited to us. It cost us £38 (£19 each) for our visit and to be fair we were slightly disappointed with the whole experience. It’s set in one room and we were advised to work our way round chronologically. Quite a few of the interactive exhibits weren’t working and the others were a bit hit and miss when we tried them. There were some interesting bits and pieces but we also found that there were a few replicas rather than original items which was disappointing. We were told you could take photos as long as a flash wasn’t used but you couldn’t really get a decent picture due to reflections and the lay out. Whilst there, a school party were also visiting and many were just running round chasing each other and had no regard for those who were trying to read the exhibits and kept bumping in to us, there didn’t seem to be any staff supervising. This also meant that all the instruments you could try in the jamming section were all in use by the kids so we literally walked straight through this section as they were all queuing up to play. We completed the whole place in about 1/2 an hour and left really disappointed. The Museum of Liverpool is not much further along the waterfront where we spent a couple of hours for free.

So let's get the price thing done first. This costs too much. Should be more like £14 and £12 for concessions. I realize that they have a top locations and that won't come cheap. But £19 per person for one room of music history is a bit much. Now on to the good stuff. It is a huge room of music merobilla. If your are not that interested you can wiz round it in half an hour. If you want to spend more time you can get into it at a deeper level. They don't actully have that much desplay stuff really but they do make up for it with lots interactive multi media which work well. It also has nice decor and good lighting. At the end of your tour you can go and play actual instruments for as long as you like. There is also a small gift shop and a very nice cafe.