Tyne & Wear Archives
@TWArchives
Archives for Tyne & Wear, covering Newcastle, Gateshead, N Tyneside, S Tyneside & Sunderland. A few of us tweet.
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'Newcastle’s Laing Gallery has built an ambitious and moving exhibition around The Fighting Temeraire' ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Guardian
Turner: Art, Industry & Nostalgia - see it in Newcastle at the Laing Art Gallery from 10 May - 7 September 2024.
Part of National Gallery's Bicentenary.
Tyne & Wear Archives is 1 of 10 venues in NE England managed by TWAM Museums.
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Does anyone know of anybody who traded in their Green Shield stamps for a Kenwood Chef or Chefette? If so, Alice Naylor would like to hear from you.
Photo Tyne & Wear Archives
The Bucket Dredger No.9, built in 1923 and operated on the River Tyne. 🌊Dredgers have improved the safety of coastal navigation and made deep water ports and shipbuilding facilities of unprecedented scale!
Courtesy of Discovery Museum & Tyne & Wear Archives
👉🔗youtu.be/W4ecy09ijNc
Thank you to LRF Heritage & Education Centre and Dr Sam Willis for these amazing films - we present, the model of the Baikal. With an amazing story to go with it, too. Please watch:
📸 new Discovery Museum #Maritime innovation in #miniature next week 📸 Watch #ship models come to life!
The entire playlist 👉👉 ow.ly/7rU350RjIUj
Lovely event at Great North Museum: Hancock today to celebrate all 9 TWAM Museums venues being awarded Museum of Sanctuary status. Great to have our Multaka volunteers here too and leading tours of the museum in different languages.
Discovery Museum Tyne & Wear Archives #DidYouKnow we hold over 300 records belonging to the Mauretania? Explore our collection 👉hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-librar…
RMS #Mauretania 🚢
At the time of her launch she was the largest moving structure in the world and won two Blue Riband in the first 2 years of service! Filmed in collaboration with Discovery Museum & Tyne & Wear Archives 📽️
Watch this incredible model come to life 👉youtu.be/wPq18QKE4ck
Two tickets left for tomorrow's 'North East Inventors – Highlights from the Archives' event with Tyne & Wear Archives - ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/newca…
A special #Maritime Innovation in Miniature video dropping Monday 😯📹
In collaboration with Discovery Museum & Tyne & Wear Archives
We're forming a (paid) community group to steer how to share more diverse stories in the museum. We're seeking people from ethnically marginalised families in the Newcastle/Tyneside area to help us.
Please email [email protected] or visit bit.ly/3TQde4B
📢 Fantastic news for Discovery Museum - just over £3 million in grant funding announced today for repairs to the roof above the Great Hall. Thank you Department for Culture, Media and Sport Arts Council England
This year we're *open* on Bank Holiday Monday 1 April - you've even more of an opportunity to see the charming Spirit of Invention from The National Archives here in Newcastle!
Victorian inventions to contemporary creations, with LEGO & origami too.
FREE
discoverymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/spiri…
As part of Discovery Museum event programme for the new *Spirit of Invention* exhibition from The National Archives - join us for a chance to see documents and images from North East inventors, and a behind-the-scenes archives tour too!
16 April - book here: twarchives.org.uk/whats-on/north…
Today our new exhibition Spirit of Invention opens at 11am, created by The National Archives - and their first ever touring exhibition.
Be the first to see charming Victorian patents & contemporary inventions like a self ventilating top hat!
See it today on ITV News Tyne Tees
