Permanent Collections & Galleries
Having undergone a £1 million redevelopment, the Museum offers a modernised, accessible environment for visitors. The buildings, incorporating the original station, house seven interactive galleries, including the Children's Gallery, with its stimulating and exciting environment for fun and learning.
Free entry.
The Journeys Gallery
The Journeys Gallery explores every aspect of journeys and why people make them.
The gallery features a wide variety of themes including ‘A Trip to London’, ‘War Time Journeys’ and ‘Food on the Move’, as well as rare film footage of Sunderland in the early 1900s.
Visitors are encouraged to hop on board and take the driving seat of an original Sunderland bus cab – a must for all young adventurers!
The Children's Gallery
Come and have fun in the specially designed Children’s Gallery. Jump aboard the play train and see how it feels like to be at the controls. Discover the fabulous dressing up box where you can become a fireman, a paramedic or even a policeman. The gallery also features a wide range of transport related toys and books to keep the kids busy. Let your imagination run free in the most interactive gallery in Sunderland!
Booking Office
Monkwearmouth Station is brought to life in the original 1860s booking office. Meet David Thompson Hide the station master and learn more about his life in the Station and his home in the rooms above.
Monkwearmouth Shop
The museum shop sells a wide range of transport themed books, toys and stationery.
Platform Gallery
Watch modern day Metro trains pass by the station platform and learn more about the types of trains which used to run through every day.
The Wagon Shed
The new Wagon Shed at the Sidings holds two railway wagons which originate from the early 20th century and which have been carefully restored. One is a Covered Carriage Truck built at Darlington in 1939 and the earliest surviving example of its kind. This wagon was used to transport cars, and now houses a gleaming 1963 Rover P4 car, on loan from the National Motor Museum Beaulieu. The other wagon is a 10-ton Goods Brake Van built at Shildon Wagon Works, County Durham in 1916.
The Wagon Shed has interactive displays and films of what life was like when these important vehicles were in use.