Posts by date: July 2011

Bronze Age Burial

Archaeology
Posted by administrator on July 28, 2011     Permalink     Comments (1)

A request came in from Newcastle University to look at the human remains from the Bronze Age that we have in our collections for a project on Bronze Age burials. This required having a detailed look at some of the… Read more

Recent discoveries from the Sunderland shipbuilding archives project

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Maritime History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on July 21, 2011     Permalink     Comments (32)

I am delighted to announce that work has started on the ‘We ‘Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project. This is the first in a series of blogs that will report on the project’s progress and highlight any exciting discoveries I make.… Read more

Why put a compass up a pole?

Art   Maritime History
Posted by administrator on July 11, 2011     Permalink     Comments (24)

Not to help the dancers find their way! Over the past year I’ve been working with the Sunderland ship model and ship portrait collections. In that time I’ve become unnaturally interested in a feature of some Sunderland-built ships from the… Read more

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

Arbeia South Shields' Roman Fort
Posted by administrator on July 7, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

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

Museums don’t just collect the ‘old stuff’…

Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Science
Posted by administrator on July 7, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

My colleague Graham Bradshaw is currently managing a project called Science & Society. The aim is to accession objects into the collection that reflect the important role science plays in our lives today. Following discussions with our colleagues over the… Read more