What's on at North East Museums

August
2026

LEGO® and K'Nex Creation Building

Discovery Museum

17 Aug

Get your thinking caps on and invent with LEGO® and K'Nex

Power the Future: Wind Workshop

Discovery Museum

18 Aug

Build a wind turbine blade to power electricity

Discover a Story

Discovery Museum

19 Aug, 26 Aug

Stories and crafts for ages 3 - 5

two children hold up their creations and smile

Time Travel Club - with The National Archives

Discovery Museum

20 Aug, 27 Aug

Family crafts using The National Archives collections as inspiration

Codes, Puzzles & Robots

Discovery Museum

25 Aug

Explore binary code and control a Sphero robot

Black-and-white historical photograph of six community members standing on a grassy field in front of an industrial site. A woman in the foreground holds a document aloft, while others stand with raised joined hands.

Talk: Clean Air - the Jennie Shearan Archive

Discovery Museum

27 Aug

Jennie's grandson talks about campaigner Jennie Shearan - with an Archive tour

Summer Garden Trail

Discovery Museum

Until 31 Aug

Spot the hidden vegetables to be entered into a prize draw

Peter Rabbit™: Tales on the Tyne

Discovery Museum

Until 14 Sep

Hop, skip and jump into an art adventure.

colour posctard from 1914 showing the Swing Bridge over the River Tyne

Swing Bridge 150

Discovery Museum

Until 20 Dec

A small display charting 150 years of the Swing Bridge over the River Tyne

a crwod of men and boys outside Boldon Colliery in 1926

Strike!

Discovery Museum

Until 17 Jan 2027

Marking 100 years since the General Strike

1940s pictures, women at sewing machines Distinctive Clothing

Jewish Industrialists on the Team Valley

Discovery Museum

Until 31 Jan 2027

Display exploring the impact Jewish light industries had on the development of the Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead

Things That Go

Discovery Museum

Until 28 Feb 2027

A new family exhibition to launch the new Special Exhibitions gallery

A grainy 1990s photo of a family smiling

From Bosnia to Tyneside

Discovery Museum

Until 28 Jul 2027

Discover the story of one family's journey escaping the Bosnian War and building a new life on Tyneside.

Steam to Green: A North East Energy Revolution

Discovery Museum

Until 5 Sep 2027

Discovery Museum's exhibition and event programme exploring the story of energy in the North East