Posts by venue: Discovery Museum

Bringing the North East’s engineering heritage back home

Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on January 30, 2013     Permalink     Comments (3)

I’m pleased to report that the ‘We Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project is complete. The Sunderland shipyard records we held at the start of the project in June 2011 have all been catalogued. The nine shipyards covered by the project… Read more

Model Visitors

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History
Posted by administrator on November 30, 2012     Permalink     Comments (7)

I met a lovely couple the other week.  They’d phoned to make an appointment and then travelled up from Down South especially to see one of our ship models, the ss Newton Ash.  We have over 600 ship models in our collection… Read more

Bye Bye Fashion Works

Discovery Museum   Fashion
Posted by administrator on November 26, 2012     Permalink     Leave a comment

Since this is my first blog post on the TWAM website I thought I’d write about something I cared a lot about and that is the deinstallation of the Fashion Works gallery on the second floor of Discovery Museum. Popular… Read more

Preparations for a new permanent gallery at Discovery Museum

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Exhibitions   Local History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on October 30, 2012     Permalink     Comments (1)

Discovery Museum was recently awarded a grant from the government and The Wolfson Foundation charity to refurbish one of our permanent galleries. It was the second highest award given out across the country! Find out more here   Preparing for… Read more

Discovery Museum welcomes home World War One objects

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Social History
Posted by administrator on October 11, 2012     Permalink     Comments (4)

At the end of a discussion with Mr Richardson and his wife at Discovery Museum today I found myself quite emotional! We had spoken a few times on the phone to arrange this meeting. For years Mr Richardson had been… Read more