Posts by venue: Education

5 things you may not have known about mourning in Victorian times – a guest blog by Lee Joseph Peacock

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Education   Exhibitions   Fashion   The Archives
Posted by administrator on November 9, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

In Fabricating Histories, Northumbria University, in collaboration with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, are exhibiting a collection of objects from the nineteenth century and exploring ideas around historical fashion, technology, science, literature, and art. Why is the nineteenth century… Read more

Revitalizing the Hatton – what’s happening while we’re closed

Art   Collections & Objects   Education   Exhibitions   Hatton Gallery
Posted by administrator on June 6, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

Welcome to the first in a series of blogs that I’ll be writing about the redevelopment of the Hatton Gallery, and the Offsite Programme that will be running while the Hatton undergoes its eighteen months of renovation. Hopefully as Project… Read more

It’s Alive! Riding Turbinia, 1897

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Education   Exhibitions   Local History   Maritime History   Science   Social History   Technology
Posted by administrator on December 11, 2015     Permalink     Comments (3)

It’s a funny thing, working in a museum.  You get so used to the extraordinary things around you that they sometimes seem to fade into the background.  Then, suddenly, something happens to inspire you all over again.  I come to… Read more

Wor Life Poppy Project

Art   Discovery Museum   Education   Exhibitions   Hatton Gallery   Laing Art Gallery   Local History   Segedunum Roman Fort   Social History   South Shields Museum & Art Gallery   World War 1
Posted by administrator on April 30, 2015     Permalink     Leave a comment

As part of our Wor Life project, commemorating the role of the North East in the First World War, we have been involving schools, families and community groups in creating poppies in our venues.  The poppies have been interpreted differently… Read more

Nothing But Blue Skies From Now ON! (removal of some very Yellow varnish)

Art   Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Education   Exhibitions   Laing Art Gallery   Maritime History   Science   Technology
Posted by administrator on December 22, 2014     Permalink     Leave a comment

This year as a way of coping with a sharp reduction in Museum funding we are all being asked to find new ways of raising funds. This means that for the first time (in my memory at least) our Conservation… Read more