Robert Hope-Jones and the Electric Organ Museum Part 2 Project 2025 Oliver Mills Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool | UK This thesis project started with a desire to reconnect modern-day Birkenhead with its extensive historical legacy; work which has already started with such bodies as the Wirral Transport Museum, the volunteers of Birkenhead Priory, and the Wirral History & Heritage Association. However, many of Birkenhead’s historical claims remain elusive. Who today knows that the theatre organ saw conception in Birkenhead? This is the focus of the programming: to devise an ELECTRIC ORGAN MUSEUM, in homage to the local Victorian telephone engineer and electric organ pioneer Robert Hope-Jones, who sparked an international musical and electromechanical revolution from his workshop in Argyle Street.The project addresses the opportunities in making full use of existing buildings on the site, and in particular, the potential in populating such bizarre and remarkable man-made spaces as a road tunnel ventilating station for a new function. The whole development relies on its interface with the surrounding existing attractions which surround the shared yard to the North. Since the museum’s subject remains a continually- evolving concern, the museum’s scope is extended towards a vision for the future, culminating in an ambitious electroacoustical installation in the former ventilating station. Tutor(s)