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The Winners! The Renaissance North East Volunteers Awards 2011

Arbeia South Shields' Roman Fort   Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Exhibitions   Great North Museum: Hancock   Hatton Gallery   Laing Art Gallery   Regional Resource Centre   Segedunum Roman Fort   Shipley Art Gallery   South Shields Museum & Art Gallery   Stephenson Steam Railway   The Archives   Volunteering
Posted by administrator on November 21, 2011     Permalink     Comments (2)

We celebrated our volunteers and staff who support volunteers in style at the Renaissance North East Volunteers Awards 2011 last weekend, at the Great North Museum:Hancock. The standard of nominations were exceptionally high this year and the judges had some very… Read more

The Tyne Regatta of August 1843

Art   Discovery Museum   Exhibitions   Local History   Maritime History   Social History
Posted by administrator on November 4, 2011     Permalink     Comments (9)

  A few months back TWAM acquired an interesting group of items relating to one of the early Tyne Regattas, held in August 1843.     For a modest sum we purchased a silver cup that was awarded to the… Read more

Recent developments on the ‘We Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Social History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on October 24, 2011     Permalink     Comments (6)

It’s been an exciting past month on the Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project. For one thing I now have a ‘glamorous’ assistant, Colin Boyd, who will be working part-time with me for the next year. Colin has worked in the shipbuilding… Read more

David Horsefield

Arbeia South Shields' Roman Fort   Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Exhibitions   Great North Museum: Hancock   Hatton Gallery   Laing Art Gallery   Segedunum Roman Fort   Shipley Art Gallery   Social History   South Shields Museum & Art Gallery   Stephenson Steam Railway   The Archives   Volunteering
Posted by administrator on October 3, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

We’re fast approaching our annual volunteer awards in November of this year. David won an award for his Outstanding Contribution to Customer Care last year after volunteering with us for over 8 years across all of our venues. I asked David, a… Read more

Hair Rollers and Horseshoes

Discovery Museum   Great North Museum: Hancock   Segedunum Roman Fort   Social History   Volunteering
Posted by administrator on September 27, 2011     Permalink     Leave a comment

I’m currently preparing to present at the Culture Shock conference at the end of September and feeling rather nostalgic. Looking back at some of the stories that the volunteers from Culture Track created I’m so impressed with the work that… Read more