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Stormy times

Art   Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Education   Exhibitions   Local History   Military History
Posted by administrator on June 6, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

With the Exhibition of Siege and Storm at Discovery Museum came a rather challenging conservation job. This is how the painting came into the studio. some areas had had varnish removed and the canvas had started to detach from the… Read more

John Alfred Charlton Deas

Collections & Objects   Education   Social History
Posted by administrator on May 6, 2011     Permalink     Comments (2)

Making collections as accessible as possible, is what Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums strive for. A pioneer in this field was Charlton Deas, a former curator at Sunderland Museum. From 1913, John Alfred Charlton Deas, organised several handling sessions for the blind, first… Read more

Remember Sunderland The Way It Used To Be

Collections & Objects   Education   New Media
Posted by administrator on April 12, 2011     Permalink     Comments (3)

With a vast collection of photographic material, it is impossible for museums to show all of them at once. Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens have an intriguing collection of photos varying in subject and content, which I have had the… Read more

Young Volunteers as Cultural Ambassadors

Education   Volunteering
Posted by administrator on August 31, 2010     Permalink     Leave a comment

Here in the Volunteering team at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums a new project is underway to inspire young people (aged 19-25) to become cultural ambassadors in the region. The project mygames (powered by v) is inspired by the… Read more