It's show time in Blackpool as new museum of entertainment opens

First look inside Showtown in Blackpool, affordable art exhibition at dot-art in Liverpool, Memory Stone at The Lowry, plans for Hilbre Island

Roll up, roll up. The curtain has lifted on Blackpool’s new museum of entertainment, Showtown (All mages courtesy of Casson Mann and Showtown Blackpool ©Hufton+Crow)

The first impression of Blackpool’s brand spanking new museum of entertainment is an overwhelming sensation of the sort you experience at a fairground. Gaudy signs vie for your attention, m…