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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.
His greatest talent, however, was taxidermy and his collection of mounted British birds can still be seen today in the Bird Gallery of the Great North Museum: Hancock. Mary Jane Hancock (1810–1896) was an amateur botanist and enthusiastic watercolour painter, and the youngest sister of John and Albany Hancock. The Natural History Society of ...
As part of the Great North Museum project, the gallery's future is secure. Unlike the university's other collections, the Hatton Gallery was not transferred into the Hancock, but remained in the Fine Art Building .
Military Vehicle Museum, Exhibition Park, Newcastle, closed in 2006, [3] may reopen [4] Municipal Museum of Science and Industry, Exhibition Park, Newcastle, collections now part of Discovery Museum; Museum of Antiquities, collections now part of Great North Museum: Hancock; Shefton Museum, collections now part of Great North Museum: Hancock
Newcastle: - Discovery Museum (founded 1934); Great North Museum: Hancock (founded 1829); Laing Art Gallery (founded 1901) North Tyneside: - Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum (founded 2000); Stephenson Railway Museum (founded 1986) South Tyneside: - Arbeia Roman Fort & Museum (founded 1953); South Shields Museum & Art Gallery (founded 1876)
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A collection of 4,500 of Lobley's moss specimens along with some books and manuscripts is held in the herbarium at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne. [3]. Her manuscript draft of a bryological flora of Roxburgh is at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. [2]
He was then taken on a tour of Britain in an exhibition of his life and work, before coming back to the Hancock Museum in 1996. [1] Sparkie Williams is acclaimed as the world's most outstanding talking bird in the Guinness Book of Records. [citation needed] Sparkie is among the exhibits on show in the Great North Museum: Hancock. [4]