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Would you Adam and Eve it!

Art   Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Exhibitions   Science   Shipley Art Gallery   Technology
Posted by administrator on August 24, 2017     Permalink     Comments (2)

The Shipley Art Gallery is currently celebrating its centenary and as part of the Centenary Exhibition some of the star objects have been displayed. I was asked to examine the painting by Joachim Wtewael called The Temptation of Adam and Eve.… Read more

Rainbow Stories at Northern Pride 2017

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Posted by administrator on August 3, 2017     Permalink     Leave a comment

TWAM have just completed a 1 year project with Historypin.org collecting life stories, photos and digital oral histories with older people. The project is called Historypin Connections and can be found here – www.historypin.org/en/connections-tyne-wear. My colleague Clara had links with a… Read more

John Franklin – The mystery of the Polar explorer

Art   Books   Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Great North Museum: Hancock   Maritime History   Social History
Posted by administrator on February 26, 2016     Permalink     Comments (2)

My name is Emily Needle and I am a 3rd year History student at Newcastle University. I’m on a Placement in the Great North Museum: Hancock Library and this is my second Blog Post.  I have been researching the famous… Read more

It’s Alive! Riding Turbinia, 1897

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Posted by administrator on December 11, 2015     Permalink     Comments (3)

It’s a funny thing, working in a museum.  You get so used to the extraordinary things around you that they sometimes seem to fade into the background.  Then, suddenly, something happens to inspire you all over again.  I come to… Read more

Some Assembly Required

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Posted by administrator on July 22, 2015     Permalink     Leave a comment

Every so often you come across a story so extraordinary that you can barely believe it really happened.  Such is the saga of the ss Baikal, which I stumbled upon whilst innocently cataloguing a box of old photographs… By 1895… Read more