TODAY's post is mainly on the subject that's been occupying almost all my time over the past week or so, the new Museum of Liverpool opening, but it also covers the Dirty Dancing tour launch and some interesting arts-related links featuring photographer Mitch Epstein and Martin Scorcese, who's filmed a new documentary on George Harrison.

Finally, after 10 years of waiting the new Museum of Liverpool will open tomorrow - at least most of it will, we'll have to wait until the autumn for the History Detectives, Great Port, Kings Regiment and Liverpool Overhead Railway galleries.

I went for a tour last week and wrote this piece all about it for today's Daily Post. It was quite a strange experience walking around a museum that's intended for hundreds of visitors at any one time yet there were only a few of us in there. We had to wear yellow hard hats, fluorescent jackets and walking boots as the contractors were completing their work, even though it's far from being a building site.

IT'S Light Night tonight - an annual one night only festival where cultural venues across Liverpool stay open until after dark and organise events and activities outside their usual programming.

I'm like a big kid when it comes to going into places at hours when you wouldn't normally be there - probably goes back to late nights in my school's drama studio painting Christmas trees and making paper flowers for our ambitiously dramatic shows - so I love this sort of event.

DAILY POST photographer Gavin Trafford was granted exclusive access to the Museum of Liverpool yesterday to capture what it looks like mid-fit out.

Here are some of his fascinating pictures:

THIS is a new blog that will complement the Daily Post's in print LDP Arts pages and our online arts and entertainment section.

While I believe we do a good job of covering Merseyside's cultural venues and events - and in fact the Daily Post dedicates more pages to the arts than any other regional paper in the country outside London - there are always too many shows to write about and too many exhibitions to fit in the paper.

I'm not certainly not complaining about the wealth of culture in the city. It just means that we have to find other ways of covering it, and this blog is one of them.

As well as widening the geographical area of our coverage to events readers will be interested in across the North West and further afield, I will be sharing behind the scenes gossip and giving you a chance to share your views too.

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