Great North Museum facts for kids
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| Established | 1884 (Hancock) 1925 (Hatton) 2000s (Great North Museum) |
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| Location | Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Type | Natural history museum Art museum |
| Visitors | 638,454 (2009) |
| Public transit access | Haymarket Metro/Bus station |
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The Great North Museum is a visitor attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. It features three venues: the Great North Museum: Hancock, the Hatton Gallery on the Newcastle University campus and the Regional Resource Centre in the basement of the Discovery Museum. All three venues are currently open.
Museums
Great North Museum: Hancock
The Great North Museum: Hancock not only holds the collections of the former Hancock Museum and collates those of Newcastle University's Museum of Antiquities and Shefton Museum, which closed their doors in 2008. The museum opened on 23 May 2009.
The natural history museum includes an interactive model of Hadrian's Wall, new displays showing diversity of the animal and plant kingdoms, objects from the Ancient Greeks and mummies from Ancient Egypt, a planetarium and a cast of a T-Rex dinosaur skeleton. The interactive Bio-Wall features hundreds of creatures, that visitors will be able to investigate and find out where they live and how they survive in such extreme places as the Arctic and Desert. There is also a full size model of an elephant, a great white shark display, polar bear and giraffe specimens from the historic Hancock collections and a moa skeleton. Also between May and October 2019 the museum hosted Dippy the dinosaur as part of its UK tour.
Hatton Gallery
The university's art gallery, the Hatton Gallery is also a part of the Great North Museum Project, but is not relocating to the Hancock, and is thus remaining in Newcastle University's Fine Art Building. Its permanent collection comprises over 3,500 works, some dating back to the 14th century. These works of art include paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. Notably, it houses the Merzbarn - the only surviving Merz construction by Kurt Schwitters.
Other logos
Images for kids
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The Hancock Museum logo used immediately prior to becoming the Great North Museum.
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Hadrian's Wall display area.
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Elephant display.
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T-Rex in dinosaur hall.
