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Scenes of North-East England, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumbria - Northumberland The Discovery Museum is one of Newcastle's premier museums, well worth a visit and absolutely free! SO PLEASE LEAVE A DONATION BEFORE LEAVING See also The Hancock Museum of the North in Newcastle
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The museum is housed in the old CWS building GENERAL VIEWS and THE GROUND FLOOR COLLECTIONS
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The museum has three floors and what was once a work yard has been enclosed and glass roof placed over it. The first steam turbine vessel TURBINIA, is on the ground floor and above it the galleries are accessed from the rectangular balcony.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: A bow view of the TURBINIA
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Looking down on the historic steam turbine ship TURBINIA
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: TURBINIA
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The stern and propellers of the TURBINIA
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: TURBINIA has a triple screw propeller system fitted in the vessel
THE FIRST FLOOR COLLECTIONS THE NEWCASTLE STORY
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Newcastle Story - all about the folk who have lived on Tyneside, from the Romans to the present day.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Newcastle Story - the Romans
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Newcastle Story - The Normans - try the helmet on and feel the weight of the chain mail armour!
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Newcastle Story - the Stuart period
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Newcastle Story - the prosperous Georgian times, which have left us many fine buildings,
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Newcastle Story - the Victorian period - huge industrial expansion, wealthy families and much poverty!
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: 1939 in Newcastle
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Welcome to the 20th Century - lots of 1960s music, plastic, consumer goods etc. etc.!
THE PEOPLE'S GALLERY
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The People's Gallery - old photographs, sculptures of people
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The People's Gallery - commemorative memorabilia
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The People's Gallery
WORKING LIVES
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Working Lives
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Working Lives
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Working Lives
A SOLDIER'S LIFE
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: A Soldier's Life
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: A Soldier's Life
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: A Soldier's Life
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: A soldier's Life
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: A Soldier's Life
TRAILBLAZERS - WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Trailblazers - 24 women of notable achievement in Science and Technology e.g. ....
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Dorothy Hodgkin, the Nobel prize winning chemist
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Interesting portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) by Maggi Hambling - all four hands and brain very busy! Dorothy Hodgkin won the Nobel prize in 1964 for her work in mapping the structure of penicillin and deciphering the structure of insulin and vitamin B12.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Rosalind Franklin, Physicist and Biologist whose world helped elucidate the structure of DNA. She would have received a Nobel Prize for her work, but tragically died young of cancer.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Mary Stopes (1880-1958) a palaeobotanist, pioneer and advocate of birth control.
THE STORY OF THE TYNE
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Film based on tales of working on Tyneside over the last 200 years
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Story of the River Tyne
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Story of the Tyne - an ancient dugout boat
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Story of the Tyne - a poster advertising the 'NORTH EAST COAST EXHIBITION' Newcastle-Upon-Tyne May - October 1929
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Story of the Tyne - ? and an example of a warship built in Newcastle shipyards
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Story of the Tyne - dredging the River Tyne and behind a banner from the Jarrow Crusade and unemployed Tyneside men from their march to London.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Story of the Tyne - the SD14 FULMAR traditional fishing cobble boat used by north-east fishermen
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: Story of the Tyne
THE TYNESIDE CHALLENGE Some of the engineering achievements of the North-East, and in particular on Tyneside industry
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Tyneside Challenge, the X-2463 registered historic motor car
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Tyneside Challenge - model of a steam locomotive built in Newcastle for a South American railway company.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Tyneside Challenge - Japanese warship 'wearing' Tyneside protective steel armour.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Tyneside Challenge - ? pounder gun
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Tyneside Challenge - an early torpedo and delivery system
THE SECOND FLOOR COLLECTIONS
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Science Maze - with a strong engineering bias
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Science Maze - the classic PRUDHOE fire engine
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Science Maze - a powerful gas turbine engine
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The cafe on the 2nd floor, also an essential port of call!
THE GREAT HALL
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Great Hall - the magnificent decorative iron arches supporting the roof
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The arched ironwork of the Great Hall, used for conventions, meetings, in this case a small business advice workshop.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Great Hall - The decorative lamp shades from the 1920s and details of the decorative ironwork of the roof supports.
The Discovery Museum Newcastle: The Great Hall - highly decorative china on the walls See also The Hancock Museum of the North in Newcastle NEWCASTLE-GATESHEAD area picture index: webpage & (section) 1. Newcastle-upon-Tyne-Gateshead area (1) River Tyne and Bridges * 2. Newcastle-Gateshead area (2) Sage Theatre & Concert Hall & Baltic Arts Centre Gateshead * 14a. Newcastle area (3) Some buildings in the centre of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne * 15. Newcastle area(4) Some 'artwork' and the Laing Art Gallery * 23. Newcastle area (5) The Angel of the North * 37. Newcastle area (6) The Black gate and Castle Keep * 38. Newcastle area (7) The Cathedral * 39. Newcastle (8) Hancock Museum of the North * 40. Newcastle (9) Bessie Surtees House * 41. Newcastle-Gateshead (10) More Churches, Medieval Walls, Gateshead Tourist Information Centre * 52. Newcastle (11) The Discovery Museum - History of Tyneside * 53. Newcastle (12) St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral and All Saints Church * 14b Newcastle (13) The Central Arcade and Holy Jesus Hospital SEE ALSO NE page 31a Jarrow (1) Bede's World * 31b Jarrow (2) St Peter's Church, Monastery * 35a. Tynemouth (1) Town and Castle * 35b. Tynemouth (2) The Priory * 36. Belsay Hall and Belsay Castle
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