Posts by venue: Arbeia South Shields’ Roman Fort

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Royal Wedding Party

Royal Wedding Party and Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens Read more

Hoards of Treasure

Tuesday 26th April –  Monkwearmouth Station Museum Back in April, during the baking hot easter holidays I volunteered at the Hoards of Treasure drop in activity day at Monkwearmouth Museum. This activity was inspired by the coins found in the… Read more

Death of Death and Burial

We have got the chance to re-display one of the galleries in the museum, so while the site is closed for winter we have cleared the old Death and Burial Gallery. First we took out all the small objects and… Read more

The Victorian Press and the Fort

I have just been helping to choose some objects from the fort for an exhibition celebrating 150 years of the Museum in South Shields, and had to check up a bit on the history of one of the objects, which… Read more