Posts by venue: Arbeia South Shields’ Roman Fort

The Wagon Sheds finished and open!

After three years in the planning and creation, the Wagon Sheds were opened to the public on 22 October. One week later, on 29 October 2011, they were officially opened by former Sunderland MP and current Chair of the Heritage… Read more

The Winners! The Renaissance North East Volunteers Awards 2011

We celebrated our volunteers and staff who support volunteers in style at the Renaissance North East Volunteers Awards 2011 last weekend, at the Great North Museum:Hancock. The standard of nominations were exceptionally high this year and the judges had some very… Read more

David Horsefield

We’re fast approaching our annual volunteer awards in November of this year. David won an award for his Outstanding Contribution to Customer Care last year after volunteering with us for over 8 years across all of our venues. I asked David, a… Read more

Tell us what you think of our blog!

We’d love to find out more about what you think of the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums blog – what you like and dislike, and how you think we could improve. Please click here to complete a short online… Read more

Loading Gauge found to be unsafe and is removed from site for conservation works.

When the recent landscape improvements at Monkwearmouth Station Museum uncovered the loading gauge to full view again, thoughts turned to conserving both it and also the railway signal. (Read more in my previous blog post here). Appropriate repairs and a… Read more