Posts by venue: Collections & Objects

The Boldons

Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Local History   Social History   South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on July 8, 2016     Permalink     Comments (3)

The Boldons are a group of three South Tyneside villages – East Boldon, West Boldon and Boldon Colliery – located to the south of the Borough of South Tyneside, heading towards Sunderland. In 2014 the British Library loaned one of… Read more

What ever happened to Saltwell Park Museum? (Part 2)

Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Local History   Shipley Art Gallery   Social History
Posted by administrator on June 13, 2016     Permalink     Comments (1)

Read Part 1 of What ever happened to Saltwell Park Museum? Saltwell Park Museum and Saltwell Towers have a close connection to another Gateshead building, the Shipley Art Gallery. Their stories are connected to another man who lived in the Towers… Read more

Revitalizing the Hatton – what’s happening while we’re closed

Art   Collections & Objects   Education   Exhibitions   Hatton Gallery
Posted by administrator on June 6, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

Welcome to the first in a series of blogs that I’ll be writing about the redevelopment of the Hatton Gallery, and the Offsite Programme that will be running while the Hatton undergoes its eighteen months of renovation. Hopefully as Project… Read more

What ever happened to Saltwell Park Museum? (Part 1)

Collections & Objects   Local History   Shipley Art Gallery   Social History
Posted by administrator on May 27, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

“Museums are most attractive when they, so to speak, are emerging from the egg. Upon reaching maturity they tend to magnificence and an awe inspiring plenitude of knowledge which causes one to surrender one’s superiority complex along with one’s umbrella”.… Read more

Top 12 Waistcoats – part 2

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Fashion
Posted by administrator on May 24, 2016     Permalink     Leave a comment

This is a guest post by Zoe-Marie Dobbs, a volunteer with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.    The garment that survives in largest quantities from the 18th century is the waistcoat. This was often the most expensive and decorative part… Read more