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The Peter Moores Foundation has aimed to 'open doors' and introduce people to new horizons through a wide range of initiatives and practical support - embracing practising artists, students, communities and visitors to art galleries and museums.

In 1993 the Foundation bought Compton Verney House in Warwickshire, to create a gallery in which art is presented without the usual air of solemnity. The gallery opened in March 2004.

The Peter Moores biennial contemporary art exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool from 1971 to 1986, gained an international reputation. The Foundation also funded a bursary in fine art at the University of Ulster in Belfast, supported the Great Georges Project in Liverpool (the first community arts project of its kind) and continued its support for practising artists, most notably, Boyle Family.
The Foundation contributed substantially to The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court (opened - December 2000 and pictured right). The new court has transformed the physical experience of visiting the British Museum, one of the most popular museums in the world, with a collection spanning two million years of human history which receives about 5.5 million visitors annually.

The Foundation has enabled the Museum to expand its work in presenting Asian culture, supporting an exhibition of Hindu art, loaning several rare Chinese archaic bronzes, prior to these going on permanent display at Compton Verney and funding the cleaning and conservation of the Museum's collection of Japanese swords, which were shown in the BM's "Cutting Edge" exhibition from November 2004 - May 2005.
The Tidal Series 1969 - Boyle Family
14 studies of the same carefully selected square of the beach at Camber Sands. Each 150 x150cms.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade Gallery, Liverpool, opened at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in 1994. It was initiated by Sir Peter Moores to foster discussion about the heritage and true history of the slave trade, a subject previously rarely confronted fully by white or black people. The overwhelming success of this project led to the development of the International Slavery Museum which opened on the same site in August 2007.
31 July 2010  
The Guardian
'Liverpool's new slavery museum embodies an approach to the past that moves beyond the tired old reparations debate; the International Slavery Museum's commitment to challenging the legacies of slavery is so important.'
The Observer
'It is an exemplary museum display. Such harrowing material cannot be called beautiful, but it is fascinating and thought-provoking.'