Posts by venue: Discovery Museum

Toys in the TWAM Collections – guest post by placement student Gemma Ashby

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum
Posted by administrator on August 30, 2017     Permalink     Leave a comment

I’m a Museum Studies student on placement here at Discovery as part of my Masters course. Some of the work I have been doing has involved looking at the presence of women and girls within the TWAM collections, in particular… Read more

On Placement at Discovery Museum – guest post by placement student Gemma Ashby

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Local History
Posted by administrator on August 30, 2017     Permalink     Leave a comment

My name is Gemma Ashby and I have just completed a work placement at the Discovery Museum. I am currently a postgraduate student at Newcastle University, working towards my MA in Museum Studies, which I will graduate from in December… Read more

Rainbow Stories at Northern Pride 2017

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   The Archives
Posted by administrator on August 3, 2017     Permalink     Leave a comment

TWAM have just completed a 1 year project with Historypin.org collecting life stories, photos and digital oral histories with older people. The project is called Historypin Connections and can be found here – www.historypin.org/en/connections-tyne-wear. My colleague Clara had links with a… Read more

Things to do in north east museums and galleries this summer

Arbeia South Shields' Roman Fort   Discovery Museum   Great North Museum: Hancock   Hatton Gallery   Laing Art Gallery   Must-see Museums   Segedunum Roman Fort   Shipley Art Gallery   South Shields Museum & Art Gallery   Stephenson Steam Railway
Posted by administrator on July 13, 2017     Permalink     Comments (1)

  The pick of the best summer events from Must-see Museums There are lots of things to keep the kids entertained over the school holidays at Tyneside’s museums and galleries. We’ve rounded up our pick of the best to help… Read more

Improving access to our shipbuilding collections

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Social History   The Archives   World War 1
Posted by administrator on June 19, 2017     Permalink     Comments (1)

The shipbuilding collections at Tyne & Wear Archives are widely recognised to be of outstanding historical significance. They have attracted international research interest and back in 2013 were given official recognition through their addition to the UK Memory of the… Read more