18th and 19th Century Gallery
The Laing's impressive permanent collection encourages visitors to return to the Gallery on a regular basis.
BFI Mediatheque
The BFI Mediatheque is a digital jukebox of film and TV featuring many of the best, the rarest and the most extraordinary titles from the BFI National Archive.
Showing: Displays
20th Century Sunderland
One hundred years of the history of Sunderland seen through the eyes of different women
A Soldier's Life
Get your marching orders from a Sergeant Major and meet a lifesize horse.
Amazing Finds
Amazing Finds is a new gallery exploring objects which have been found at the Fort, both large and small.
Ancient Egypt
See the Great North Museum: Hancocks famous mummies, one unwrapped (Irt Irw) and one wrapped (Bakt hor Nekht) still inside her beautifully painted coffin.
Ancient Greeks
See objects from the Shefton collection, one of the most important collections of Greek and Etruscan art and archaeology in the country.