Posts by venue: Collections & Objects

The A.I.A. and Art For Everyman

Art   Collections & Objects   Laing Art Gallery   Military History   Social History
Posted by administrator on April 25, 2014     Permalink     Leave a comment

And your starter for ten this week is ….  What do the following British 20th Century artists all have in common? – Clifford Rowe, James Boswell, Carel Weight, James Holland, Edward Ardizzone, Pearl Binder, Eric Gill, Victor Pasmore and Ben Nicholson?… Read more

The Berengaria visits the River Tyne

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   The Archives
Posted by administrator on April 17, 2014     Permalink     Comments (2)

Over the past couple of months, work has been progressing steadily on the ‘Workshop of the World’ project. I’ve been working through the large quantity of unlisted material in the Vickers Armstrong collection and there have been lots of interesting… Read more

Here Comes the Sun – part 2

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Fashion   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on April 2, 2014     Permalink     Comments (2)

A guest post by Caroline Whitehead Read Caroline’s first blog post about the parasol collection at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums here. Caring for your parasol Parasols were fragile – the silk split quite easily due to the fact… Read more

Here comes the Sun

Collections & Objects   Discovery Museum   Fashion   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on March 27, 2014     Permalink     Comments (1)

Guest post by Caroline Whitehead. We all need something frivolous in our lives now and again, and this month I’ve been working with some of the most frivolous things in Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums’ Costume & Textile Collection… Read more

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Collections & Objects   Fashion   Great North Museum: Hancock   Regional Resource Centre
Posted by administrator on March 10, 2014     Permalink     Comments (5)

People have done crazy things for beauty for millennia. In Ancient Greece and Rome, people bathed in mud and crocodile faeces to tone their muscles and keep their skin youthful. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Japanese married women dyed… Read more