Discovery Museum

Bring your treasures here for evaluation at BBC Flog It! tomorrow - doors open 9.30 get here early! Max 3 items free entry #nefollowers

@Discovery_Mus 7:35pm 24 May 2013

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@Discovery_Mus 7:01pm 24 May 2013

Our curators will show our BBC Flog It guests special artefacts throughout the day - can you tell we're getting just a LITTLE bit excited?

@Discovery_Mus 6:01pm 24 May 2013

We're part of this nationwide artefact swap project - one of our light bulbs made by Joseph Swan in 1881 is going to the Science Museum and we are getting a rare Chinese puzzle box read all about it in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/may/21/museums-first-time-out?CMP=twt_gu

Museums put oddball objects on show
www.guardian.co.uk
First Time Out project will display unusual treasures that curators have retrieved from their stores

5:26pm 24 May 2013

Remember to bring your items for evaluation with Paul Martin and the gang tomorrow! How exciting the BBC will be with us all day- get here early! doors open 9.30. See you then!

10:48am 24 May 2013

Message in a bottle

The last message from Robert Mustard who died when the SS Princess of Sunderland sank in 1893. A short film made by Gateshead College with Tyne & Wear Archives.

Andrew Parkin, Keeper of Archaeology from the Great North Museum

Andrew Parkin, Keeper of Archaeology from the Great North Museum, tells us about his favourite Greek object in the museum's current exhibition.