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Star of the show

Art   Books   Great North Museum: Hancock
Posted by administrator on April 24, 2014     Permalink     Leave a comment

A book from the Great North Museum: Hancock Library is going to be the star of an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds this year. The book which is part of the Library of the Natural History Society of Northumbria… Read more

The Berengaria visits the River Tyne

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on April 17, 2014     Permalink     Comments (2)

Over the past couple of months, work has been progressing steadily on the ‘Workshop of the World’ project. I’ve been working through the large quantity of unlisted material in the Vickers Armstrong collection and there have been lots of interesting… Read more

John Constable : Hampstead Heath with the House Called ‘The Salt Box’, about 1819

Art   Laing Art Gallery   Social History
Posted by administrator on April 11, 2014     Permalink     Leave a comment

A bright patch of colour – a man wearing a red waistcoat – pulls our eyes out to the far right of this picture, ensuring that we don’t miss the full width of this airy panorama. It shows the view… Read more

Here Comes the Sun – part 2

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Fashion   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on April 2, 2014     Permalink     Comments (2)

A guest post by Caroline Whitehead Read Caroline’s first blog post about the parasol collection at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums here. Caring for your parasol Parasols were fragile – the silk split quite easily due to the fact… Read more

Here comes the Sun

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Fashion   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on March 27, 2014     Permalink     Comments (1)

Guest post by Caroline Whitehead. We all need something frivolous in our lives now and again, and this month I’ve been working with some of the most frivolous things in Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums’ Costume & Textile Collection… Read more