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The Museum contains a large collection of the locally made Sunderland Lustreware pottery. [7] Other highlights of the Museum are a stuffed Lion which was acquired in 1879, [ 8 ] the remains of a walrus brought back from Siberia in the 1880s and the first Nissan car to be made in Sunderland. [ 9 ]
1969 – Sunderland Technical & Art Colleges merged to form Sunderland Polytechnic (now the University of Sunderland) 1970 – Opening of new Basil Spence-designed Sunderland Civic Centre by the Princess Margaret; 1971 – Sunderland Town Hall demolished. 1973 – Sunderland A.F.C. win the FA Cup for the second time
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens was the first local authority museum outside London to be established following the Museums Act of 1846. Its first recorded fine art acquisition was a commission by the Sunderland to Mark Thompson, who was paid 30 guineas to record the opening of the new South Dock in 1850. This may be the first occasion in ...
By 1840 the town had 76 shipyards and between 1820 and 1850 the number of ships being built on the Wear increased fivefold. From 1846 to 1854 almost a third of the UK's ships were built in Sunderland, and in 1850 the Sunderland Herald proclaimed the town to be the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. [70]
Sunderland Museum building (October 2016) The Sunderland Art Gallery is an art gallery based within the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens centre, in Sunderland City Centre. The collection of paintings includes works by the British artist, L.S. Lowry , many with local significance.
Sunderland Art Gallery; Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens; W. Washington Old Hall This page was last edited on 9 December 2016, at 16:13 (UTC). ...
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, on Borough Road, was the first municipally funded museum in the country outside London. [64] It houses a comprehensive collection of the locally produced Sunderland Lustreware pottery. The City Library Arts Centre, on Fawcett Street, housed the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art until the library was ...