Posts by date: February 2016

John Franklin – The mystery of the Polar explorer

My name is Emily Needle and I am a 3rd year History student at Newcastle University. I’m on a Placement in the Great North Museum: Hancock Library and this is my second Blog Post.  I have been researching the famous… Read more

Exhibition Explorers at the Shipley – what our youngest visitors can teach us.

Last week our exciting new project Exhibition Explorers began. Sixteen children aged 1 and 2 and their grown-ups joined us to embark on an exciting six month journey of discovery, finding new ways of enjoying galleries and museums together. This project is focused on… Read more

Growing our family offer

I’m really excited to have developed two new offers for Early Years, both of which are free and fairly flexible for people to drop into: Magic Carpet is a special artist-made bag that folds out into a creative playmat. It comes complete with… Read more

The Platinum Programme – working with local care homes

I run The Platinum Programme here at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums. The programme aims to engage people over the age of 55 with museum activities. This includes inviting people into our various venues via our Culture and Cake… Read more

Exhibition Explorers – new adventures ahead!

As we approached the end of the pilot of Creative Baby! it became apparent to me that the offer for Early Years really needed to grow along with the rapidly expanding Early Years audience we’d attracted. The response to Creative Baby!… Read more