News (page 7)

20 July 2023

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums wins ‘Uniquely North East Award’ at Charity Awards

Four people accepting an award at a ceremony.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM), the organisation that manages some of the most popular venues in the region, won the Uniquely North East award at last night’s North East Charity Awards.

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11 July 2023

Ways to Play is back for summer

Ways to play logo
This summer families are invited to enjoy a great value day out across museums and galleries on Tyneside.

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10 July 2023

Journalist and former MP appointed Chair of regional museum group

Chris Mullin new Chair of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Strategic Board

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28 June 2023

Great North Museum: Hancock shortlisted for national Family Friendly Museum Award

The Great North Museum: Hancock is vying against four other museums in the Best Medium Museum Award category.

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27 June 2023

Rarely seen works on show in Hatton Gallery for a limited time

Sir George Clausen RA, Head and Shoulders of a Young Woman, about 1900, pencil on paper. Laing Art Gallery
'Works on Paper' which will run for a limited time from Saturday 1 July 2023 - Saturday 5 August 2023, consists of extremely light-sensitive works on paper from the sixteenth century to the present day.

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12 June 2023

Museums, Health & Social Care Symposium – early bird tickets on sale

Museums and health
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.

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06 June 2023

Celebrating Refugee Week 2023 in Newcastle and Gateshead

Refugee Week
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) has worked alongside local organisations to bring together a programme of free activities, with highlights including circus, theatre, art and creative writing workshops.

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25 May 2023

North East links to Indentured Indian labour now on permanent display at Discovery Museum

2. Mrs Patricia Sudaishna Poinen's family who were transported to Trinidad as Indentured labourers
A new permanent display in the Story of the Tyne gallery at Discovery Museum which explores the North East region’s links to Indian Indentureship is now on display.

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19 May 2023

Ways to Play – May half-term events at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Ways to Play
This May half-term, families are invited to enjoy a great value day out across museums and galleries on Tyneside.

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18 May 2023

Stephenson Steam Railway Launches Crowdfund Campaign.

Woodland Walk Campaign with green background asking for donation
Stephenson Steam Railway Museum launch crowdfund campaign to redevelop an area of unused scrub land, into a haven for wildlife and a place where the local community can connect with nature.

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15 May 2023

Tyneside prepares for a big weekend of late-night culture

The Late Shows
The Late Shows – Tyneside’s annual free after-hours culture crawl – returns for its 15th edition this weekend, on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 May.

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10 May 2023

Countdown begins for ‘National Treasure’ J.M.W Turner painting to go on display

A painting by William Turner which shows the final journey of the ship as it is towed along the river Thames by a modern paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap.
It is exactly one year until Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire (1839) will be on public display at Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery, from 10 May until 7 September 2024.

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18 April 2023

Inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels

Members of the Creative Calligraphy standing on stairs in museum
The exhibition, Inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels, has been created by a group of talented amateur calligraphers, who are part of two groups who meet weekly at Mortimer Community Centre in South Shields.

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13 April 2023

Game character created by visual development studio Atomhawk features in a new fantasy adventure experience

"end-of-level boss” game character
Game character created by visual development studio Atomhawk features in a new fantasy adventure experience at the Great North Museum: Hancock.

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03 April 2023

Seeking a new Chair for Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Strategic Board

A woman standing with a portrait, a woman with a cup of tea, a woman and child playing with lego, 2 woman looking at objects in a case, a man standing with a steam engine, a woman and young girl looking at a sculpture
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) is inviting applications for a Chair to lead its Strategic Board

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31 March 2023

Full line-up announced for The Late Shows

The Late Shows yellow and black banner on Gateshead quay with Swing and High Level bridges in the distance
Event listings go live for NewcastleGateshead’s annual culture crawl

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29 March 2023

Award-winning partnership offering value family days out extended

Ways to Play
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 events.

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20 March 2023

South Shields Museum & Art Gallery secures Museum Estate and Development funding

South Shields Museum building captured from highstreet
South Shields Museum & Art Gallery secures £540,000 of funding from the Museum Estate and Development fund, which will go towards essential museum maintenance and infrastructure works.

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13 March 2023

Coatsink sponsor new fantasy adventure experience at the Great North Museum: Hancock

Myth Quest logo
The Great North Museum: Hancock is excited to announce a partnership with Gateshead based, Coatsink who are supporting its new interactive exhibition, Myth Quest: Monsters and Mortals.

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07 March 2023

Celebrating 16 exceptional women in north east England in museum trail display on tour

Portrait of Steph Edusi
A museum display celebrating exceptional women from north east England developed at Discovery Museum is going on tour to celebrate International Women’s Day (8 March).

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