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This list of museums in Tyne and Wear, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Great North Museum: Hancock is a museum of natural history and ancient civilisations in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The museum was established in 1884 and was formerly known as the Hancock Museum. In 2006 it merged with Newcastle University's Museum of Antiquities and Shefton Museum to form the Great North Museum. The museum reopened as ...
Nick Mitzevich (later director of the National Gallery of Australia), started his career in museum directorship at Newcastle Art Gallery. Appointed in 2001, [ 4 ] he ran the gallery for six years, [ 5 ] before being appointed to manage the University of Queensland Art Museum [ 6 ] in July 2007. [ 7 ]
The Hatton Gallery is Newcastle University's art gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is based in the university's Fine Art Building . The Hatton Gallery briefly closed in February 2016 for a £3.8 million redevelopment and reopened in 2017.
The gallery was designed in the Baroque style with Art Nouveau elements by architects Cackett & Burns Dick and is now a Grade II listed building. [1] It was opened in 1904 and is now managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In front of the gallery is the Blue Carpet.
The Newcastle Museum was founded in 1988, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II. [1] It was originally located in the old Castlemaine Brewery building on Hunter Street until 2008. In 2011 it reopened in its present location, 1.7 km (1.1 mi) away in the former headquarters of the Great Northern Railway which includes the heritage-listed ...
It is the largest commercial art, craft & design gallery in the UK. [1] The gallery's home is a former Victorian warehouse, constructed in 1870. [2] Prior to 2002 the Building was used in the manufacturing of biscuits (hence the name The biscuit factory), changing its name over the years from The Tyne Biscuit Factory to the name Newcastle upon ...
Newcastle Art Gallery: 1957 Newcastle NSW [13] New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM) 1983 Armidale: NSW: Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum: 1970 Faulconbridge: NSW Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) 1988 Perth: WA Peter Bray Gallery: 1951 1957 Melbourne Vic Post Office Gallery (University of Ballarat) 2002 Ballarat: Vic Queen ...