News (page 4)

27 November 2023

Help museums give children and young people the very best start

A young boy doing a craft activity in a museum
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums is aiming to raise £10,000 as part of The Big Give Christmas Challenge, which runs from 12 noon, 28 November - 12 noon, 5 December 2023.

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17 November 2023

Practising Mindful Practice – new podcast resource for heritage professionals launches

A woman talking to a group as part of a museum workshop.
Practising Mindful Practice is a new podcast resource for museum and heritage professionals interested in developing mental health and addiction recovery programmes.

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15 November 2023

Discovery Museum features launch of Science Museum Group’s new research project

Visitor watches Congruence engine films
Newcastle’s Discovery Museum is the first in the UK to showcase the Science Museum Group’s cutting-edge research project ‘The Congruence Engine’, by exploring unknown stories from Newcastle’s industrial history through specially made films. 

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14 November 2023

South Shields Museum & Art Gallery reveals new exhibition

A print by Vincent Rea, 1972
A mini exhibition of Vince Rea artworks is unveiled at South Shields Museum & Art Gallery.

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23 October 2023

200 days before its 200th birthday, the National Gallery shares details of ‘National Treasures’ exhibitions across the UK – including J.M.W. Turner’s ‘The Fighting Temeraire’ at Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery

A painting by William Turner which shows the final journey of the ship as it is towed along the river Thames by a modern paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap.
The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle will be mounting a major exhibition with Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire (1839) as the centrepiece, exploring themes of industry and nostalgia, with education and outreach workshops contributing to an intergenerational project thinking about memory and heritage.

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20 October 2023

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums seeks a new Audit Committee Chair and Independent Member

Children in Play + Invent
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM), which manages nine museums and galleries across Tyneside and the Archives for Tyne & Wear, is seeking a new Chair and a new Independent Member to join its Audit Committee.

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05 October 2023

Ways to play - October half-term 2023 events at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Ways to play logo
At a time when everyone is conscious of rising costs, Tyneside’s museums are continuing their award-winning partnership with Tyne and Wear Metro to offer a range of high quality, low-cost family events this October half-term.

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25 August 2023

Matt Rugg: Connecting Form

Connecting Form is the first major retrospective of the work of Matt Rugg (1935 – 2020), a highly regarded British sculptor and teacher who was at the forefront of radical changes in art education in the UK during the last three decades of the 20th century.

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14 August 2023

Time is running out - we need your pledges

Help us kickstart our campaign to give children and young people the best start

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25 July 2023

Curators seek Tyneside people who use electric cars, solar panels or heat pumps for new exhibition

Discovery Museum entry arch
Curators at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum are seeking Tyneside people who use an electric car, have solar panels on their home, or have an air source heat pump installed, to feature in the museum’s next exhibition.

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24 July 2023

Museums, Health & Social Care Symposium - speakers and workshops announced

Two people at a museum workshop
Update - 11 August 2023: We regret that the Museums, Health & Social Care Symposium has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Ticketholders have been contacted and will receive a full refund. We are looking to reschedule the event to spring 2024, with details announced on the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums website in due course.

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20 July 2023

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums wins ‘Uniquely North East Award’ at Charity Awards

Four people accepting an award at a ceremony.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM), the organisation that manages some of the most popular venues in the region, won the Uniquely North East award at last night’s North East Charity Awards.

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11 July 2023

Ways to Play is back for summer

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This summer families are invited to enjoy a great value day out across museums and galleries on Tyneside.

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10 July 2023

Journalist and former MP appointed Chair of regional museum group

Chris Mullin new Chair of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Strategic Board

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28 June 2023

Great North Museum: Hancock shortlisted for national Family Friendly Museum Award

The Great North Museum: Hancock is vying against four other museums in the Best Medium Museum Award category.

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27 June 2023

Rarely seen works on show in Hatton Gallery for a limited time

Sir George Clausen RA, Head and Shoulders of a Young Woman, about 1900, pencil on paper. Laing Art Gallery
'Works on Paper' which will run for a limited time from Saturday 1 July 2023 - Saturday 5 August 2023, consists of extremely light-sensitive works on paper from the sixteenth century to the present day.

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12 June 2023

Museums, Health & Social Care Symposium – early bird tickets on sale

Museums and health
Update - 11 August 2023: We regret that the Museums, Health & Social Care Symposium has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Ticketholders have been contacted and will receive a full refund. We are looking to reschedule the event to spring 2024, with details announced on the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums website in due course.

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06 June 2023

Celebrating Refugee Week 2023 in Newcastle and Gateshead

Refugee Week
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) has worked alongside local organisations to bring together a programme of free activities, with highlights including circus, theatre, art and creative writing workshops.

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25 May 2023

North East links to Indentured Indian labour now on permanent display at Discovery Museum

2. Mrs Patricia Sudaishna Poinen's family who were transported to Trinidad as Indentured labourers
A new permanent display in the Story of the Tyne gallery at Discovery Museum which explores the North East region’s links to Indian Indentureship is now on display.

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19 May 2023

Ways to Play – May half-term events at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Ways to Play
This May half-term, families are invited to enjoy a great value day out across museums and galleries on Tyneside.

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