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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 ...
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
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) is a regional group of United Kingdom national museums and the county archives service located across the Tyne and Wear area of north-east England. They have been administered by a joint board of local authorities since the abolition of the Tyne and Wear Metropolitan County Council in 1986.
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)
The Shefton Museum of Greek Art and Archaeology was an archaeological museum at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, which opened in 1956 [1] and closed in 2008. Its collections are now part of the Great North Museum: Hancock .
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]
The Hancock Museum, founded in 1884, is the main location of the Great North Museum. Newcastle University has the second largest cavitation tunnel in the UK. Founded in 1950, and based in the Marine Science and Technology Department, the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel is used as a test basin for propellers, water turbines, underwater coatings and ...