This list of museums in Tyne and Wear, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
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South Tyneside | Archaeology | Excavated and reconstructed Roman fort, museum of artefacts and life of a Roman soldier | |||
Gateshead | Art | Contemporary art | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Historic house | Operated by Historic England, two five-storey 16th and 17th century merchants' houses | |||
City of Sunderland | Railway | Preserved operational standard gauge cable railway system built to transport coal to boats, built by George Stephenson in 1826 | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Historic house | Keep and remains of the medieval castle | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Science | Permanent exhibits about human life | |||
South Tyneside | Art | Arts centre with exhibit gallery, theatre and cinema | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Multiple | Science, local history, shipbuilding and industrial heritage, Turbinia, first steam turbine powered steamship, regimental museum for the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars and the Northumberland Hussars, costumes, art exhibits of painting, photography and sculpture | |||
City of Sunderland | Mill | website, restored early 19th century windmill | |||
Gateshead | Local | website, local history, culture, | |||
North Tyneside | Art | website, contemporary art | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Multiple | Natural history, archaeology and Roman Britain, Ancient Rome and Egypt, dinosaurs and fossils, ethnography | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Art | Part of Newcastle University | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | History | Operated by the National Trust, medieval building in use for 700 years, exhibits about its use as a 14th-century Augustinian friary, 17th century almshouse and Victorian soup kitchen | |||
South Tyneside | Multiple | Life and times of monk, scholar and author Venerable Bede, includes artifacts from the adjacent medieval church, museum exhibits, Anglo-Saxon demonstration farm with heritage breeds of animals | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Art | Collections include 18th and 18th century British oil paintings and sculpture, watercolours, ceramics, silver and glassware, 20th century art | |||
City of Sunderland | Railway | Formerly Railway and transportation history and heritage, now contains a collection of football memorabilia. | |||
City of Sunderland | Art | Historic and contemporary glass, history of glass-making | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Automotive | information | |||
City of Sunderland | Aviation | Historic aircraft, aviation history, Military vehicles, historic emergency services vehicles, buses and trams. | |||
City of Sunderland | Art | Contemporary art | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Art | website, part of Northumbria University | |||
Maritime heritage | website - Galleries, exhibits, activities, viewing platform and café, housed in a former lighthouse | ||||
Gateshead | Industry | Restored water wheel and joiner's shop | |||
City of Sunderland | Art | website, information, contemporary art gallery of the University of Sunderland | |||
City of Sunderland | Technology | Victorian pumping station with two beam engines, steam engines and pumps, boilers, a blacksmith's forge, waterwheel, replica plumber's shop | |||
North Tyneside | Archaeology | Excavated Roman fort along Hadrian's Wall, museum of artefacts and life of a Roman soldier, shipbuilding and coal mining industries, reconstructed Roman baths | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | Art | Art of British children’s books | |||
Gateshead | Art | Contemporary crafts and design, fine art | |||
South Tyneside | Local | website, local history, culture, art | |||
South Tyneside | Maritime | Operated by the National Trust, lighthouse's engine room, light tower and keeper's living quarters | |||
North Tyneside | Maritime | Lighthouse to tour, exhibits about the lighthouse and island's wildlife | |||
North Tyneside | Railway | Steam-powered, electric and diesel engines, history of area electric transport, northern terminus of the North Tyneside Steam Railway | |||
City of Sunderland | Multiple | Art, textiles, pottery, glass, coal mining, local history, social history, natural history, industry, geology | |||
North Tyneside | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, remains and exhibits about the Anglo-Saxon settlement, Anglican monastery, royal castle, artillery fort and coastal defence | |||
North Tyneside | Maritime | website, history of area lifesaving, shipwreck artifacts | |||
North Tyneside | Toy | website, toys, dolls, prams, puzzles, games | |||
Technology | website, Victorian steam engine, engine house and headgear for a coal mine | ||||
Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 16th century stone manor house, ancestral home of the family of George Washington, the first President of the United States | ||||