News (page 6)
15 January 2024
National Lottery Open Week 2024 - find out about free activities on offer
As part of National Lottery Open Week (9-17 March 2024) our museums and galleries are offering a variety of events, for free, to visitors who show a National Lottery ticket or scratchcard on entry.
14 January 2024
Tyne & Wear Archives to mark Holocaust Memorial Day this January
Two free events on Wednesday 24 January 2024 will explore North East Jewish heritage.
12 January 2024
Laing Art Gallery artworks on display at 10 Downing Street
Nine artworks from the Laing collection will be on display for one year
09 January 2024
Calling all venues for The Late Shows 2024
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The Late Shows, is calling out to venues to sign up to take part in the 2024 event.
09 January 2024
Spark your imagination with the Hatton Gallery winter-spring 2024 exhibitions programme
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Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery is excited to unveil a captivating lineup of exhibitions for winter-spring 2024, including works by internationally acclaimed Latvian American artist Vija Celmins.
08 January 2024
TWAM Enterprises Ltd seeking new commercial manager
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) Enterprises Ltd is looking to appoint an experienced and dynamic commercial leader with a good understanding of operating successful commercial activity within a museum, charity or heritage environment.
19 December 2023
2024 Exhibition and Event Highlights
What's coming up at our museums and galleries across Tyneside in 2024
14 December 2023
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums celebrates win at North East Culture Awards
The award recognises the highly successful partnership between Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery and Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon Museum and Distillery in Wooler.
05 December 2023
The Late Shows 2024 – dates confirmed for NewcastleGateshead’s annual culture crawl
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On Friday 17 and Saturday 18 May 2024 one of the biggest events in Newcastle and Gateshead's cultural calendars returns.
27 November 2023
Help museums give children and young people the very best start
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums is aiming to raise £10,000 as part of The Big Give Christmas Challenge, which runs from 12 noon, 28 November - 12 noon, 5 December 2023.
17 November 2023
Practising Mindful Practice – new podcast resource for heritage professionals launches
Practising Mindful Practice is a new podcast resource for museum and heritage professionals interested in developing mental health and addiction recovery programmes.
15 November 2023
Discovery Museum features launch of Science Museum Group’s new research project
Newcastle’s Discovery Museum is the first in the UK to showcase the Science Museum Group’s cutting-edge research project ‘The Congruence Engine’, by exploring unknown stories from Newcastle’s industrial history through specially made films.
14 November 2023
South Shields Museum & Art Gallery reveals new exhibition
A mini exhibition of Vince Rea artworks is unveiled at South Shields Museum & Art Gallery.
23 October 2023
200 days before its 200th birthday, the National Gallery shares details of ‘National Treasures’ exhibitions across the UK – including J.M.W. Turner’s ‘The Fighting Temeraire’ at Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery
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The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle will be mounting a major exhibition with Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire (1839) as the centrepiece, exploring themes of industry and nostalgia, with education and outreach workshops contributing to an intergenerational project thinking about memory and heritage.
20 October 2023
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums seeks a new Audit Committee Chair and Independent Member
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM), which manages nine museums and galleries across Tyneside and the Archives for Tyne & Wear, is seeking a new Chair and a new Independent Member to join its Audit Committee.
05 October 2023
Ways to play - October half-term 2023 events at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
At a time when everyone is conscious of rising costs, Tyneside’s museums are continuing their award-winning partnership with Tyne and Wear Metro to offer a range of high quality, low-cost family events this October half-term.
25 August 2023
Matt Rugg: Connecting Form
Connecting Form is the first major retrospective of the work of Matt Rugg (1935 – 2020), a highly regarded British sculptor and teacher who was at the forefront of radical changes in art education in the UK during the last three decades of the 20th century.
14 August 2023
Time is running out - we need your pledges
Help us kickstart our campaign to give children and young people the best start
25 July 2023
Curators seek Tyneside people who use electric cars, solar panels or heat pumps for new exhibition
Curators at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum are seeking Tyneside people who use an electric car, have solar panels on their home, or have an air source heat pump installed, to feature in the museum’s next exhibition.
24 July 2023
Museums, Health & Social Care Symposium - speakers and workshops announced
Update - 11 August 2023: We regret that the Museums, Health & Social Care Symposium has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Ticketholders have been contacted and will receive a full refund. We are looking to reschedule the event to spring 2024, with details announced on the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums website in due course.
