Posts by venue: Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

David Horsefield

We’re fast approaching our annual volunteer awards in November of this year. David won an award for his Outstanding Contribution to Customer Care last year after volunteering with us for over 8 years across all of our venues. I asked David, a… Read more

Bronze Age Burial

Archaeology Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Posted by Alex Croom on July 28, 2011 Permalink Comments (1)

A request came in from Newcastle University to look at the human remains from the Bronze Age that we have in our collections for a project on Bronze Age burials. This required having a detailed look at some of the… Read more

Why put a compass up a pole?

Art Maritime History Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Posted by Ian Whitehead on July 11, 2011 Permalink Comments (11)

Not to help the dancers find their way! Over the past year I’ve been working with the Sunderland ship model and ship portrait collections. In that time I’ve become unnaturally interested in a feature of some Sunderland-built ships from the… Read more

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Posted by admin on July 6, 2011 Permalink Leave a comment

We’d love to find out more about what you think of the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums blog – what you like and dislike, and how you think we could improve. Please click here to complete a short online… Read more