South Shields Museum & Art Gallery

#MusMem day today! Would love to hear your museum-visiting memories

@S_ShieldsMuseum 12:37pm 17 May 2013

I have so many great #MusMem's. Inc dino's @gnm_hancock, creating a student exhib. @DUmuseums, 1st museum job @S_Shields…

@S_ShieldsMuseum 12:37pm 17 May 2013

We have portraits and photos of a lot of important South Shields residents - here's our first one https://t.co/f6eTvCpyCP

@S_ShieldsMuseum 2:47pm 16 May 2013

Dr. Thomas Masterman Winterbottom (1766 - 1859), mid 19th century by Robinson Elliott

Dr. Winterbottom was an eminent physician and philanthropist. Born in South Shields on 26 March 1766, he was the eldest of seven children. He later studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow and in 1792 was appointed physician to the Colony of Sierra Leone. After returning to South Shields in 1796, he settled in Westoe Village and practiced medicine in the Market Place. He devoted himself to intellectual and charitable pursuits including founding the South Shields Marine School and becoming vice president of the South Shields Mechanics Institute which was housed in the museum's current building

People from South Shields' history

2:45pm 16 May 2013

Hi all, we still need a bit of help with the research we are doing together with our friends at Necastle University. We are running a short survey to help us improve the South Shields Museum & Art Gallery's Facebook page. You can win a £50 Amazon voucher! Please help! Click here to start: http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=4558


Survey of South Shields Facebook users
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Dear user of South Shields Museum & Art Gallery's Facebook page, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and Newcastle University are working on a new project to understand how people use Facebook to engage with galleries, museums and heritage sites in the North East. With this survey we would like to find o...

3:25pm 10 May 2013