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Places to go & things to do: embarking on our Family Adventures!

Shipley Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on March 16, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

At the second Exhibition Explorers session we were delighted to find so many of the group had been on a Family Adventure to a museum or gallery, and returned with their completed scrapbook page to share their discoveries. Exhibition Explorers is an… Read more

It’s Alive! Riding Turbinia, 1897

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Education   Exhibitions   Local History   Maritime History   Science   Social History   Technology
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

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Military History   Science   Social History   Technology
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

Top Ten Bags : Part Two

Collections & Objects   Fashion
Posted by administrator on June 22, 2015     Permalink     Leave a comment

This blog concludes the top ten bags list, here are the final five. The first is one of the smallest bags that we came across and dates to around 1900. It is made of a very fine silver chain and has… Read more

Top Ten Bags : Part One

Fashion
Posted by administrator on June 12, 2015     Permalink     Comments (15)

For the past eight weeks Chiao-Mei Lin and I, who are both masters students at Newcastle University, have been working on a number of projects in the costume and textiles store at Discovery. For this project Mei and I have been… Read more