Discovery Museum

@ 1:01am 25 May 2013

@ 1:01am 25 May 2013

@ 1:01am 25 May 2013

Bring your antiques for a free evaluation with the BBC Flog It team here all day Saturday 25 May (tomorrow) doors open 9.30 - maximum 3 items and free entry! We're just a 5 minute walk from Central Station.

9:25pm 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

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.