The Durham Heritage Centre and Museum is one of the most well loved and visited attractions within the county, and tells the story of both...

The present Cathedral has stood on this spot as a place of prayer and pilgrimage for over 900 years. It contains the remains of Cuthbert,...

Located in a beautiful old mill building in Durham, this archaeology collection is owned by the University of Durham, and is one of the chief...

Crook Hall is a beautiful medieval manor house surrounded by romantic gardens including the secret walled garden, the Shakespeare garden, the cathedral garden and the...

The Durham Light Infantry Museum and Art Gallery share premises and make quite comfortable bedfellows, although at immediate consideration of the names, you might not...

Durham University is one of the most prestigious in the country and has a long and distinguished history associated with academic excellence. The University...

The Durham Miner Heritage Group have a museum that allows visitors the chance to learn more about the rich mining heritage of this county and...

The Oriental Museum is part of Durham University, an institution that has had a long and interesting connection with the orient. The museum houses...

The County Record Office has been keeping detailed records of everything that happens in County Durham for many centuries, and therefore carries a massive collection...

Dating from 1072, Durham Castle is one of the largest Norman castles and one of the grandest Romanesque palaces to survive in England. The castle...

This comparatively small priory is situated in a scenic spot on the banks of the River Wear, about 4 miles from Durham. From its lowly...

The museum is based in the annex of a local church and is responsible for collecting a social and political archive of information on this...

Washington ‘F’ Pit’s magnificent Victorian steam engine, engine house and headgear are preserved to mark the town’s coalmining heritage that reaches back over 250 years....

For railway enthusiasts this is one of the real treats of the region as it is the only place in the country where it is...

This unique museum recreates living conditions in the North of England in 1825 and 1913. Set in more than 300 acres, it features some...

In the middle of the New Town of Washington, Tyne & Wear, lies the original village and Washington Old Hall, the ancestral home of America’s...

This historic castle has been the home of the Bishops of Durham for over 800 years, and today is the Bishop’s official residence. The historic...

The centrepiece of the town, this beautiful building is a fine piece of architecture that is the cultural, social and administrative centre of the town....

This exhibition is only open by appointment, so please make sure that you make contact with the authorities in advance to avoid disappointment. The...

A three acre country garden created by the present owners with over 500 yards of colour themed mixed borders. There are also ponds, orchards with...

This museum is dedicated to a simple but phenomenally well-used form of transport, the bus. Throughout the ages, starting with carts being pulled by...

Locomotion celebrates Shildon’s history as one of the world’s oldest railway towns. The first passenger train on the first passenger railway in the world left...

There are over seven hundred pieces by local arts and craftspeople on display at the Shipley Art Gallery. Some of the disciplines that are...

Gateshead Central Library is located at the heart of this community. The library carries a large collection of books and texts, both fiction and...

Harperley POW camp was purpose-built during WW2 to house Italian and German prisoners. The camp consists of 49 huts - the most complete of only...

Ryhope Engines Museum is based in the Ryhope Pumping Station that was built in 1868 to supply water to both Sunderland and the many surrounding...

The Sage Gateshead is a stunning centre, designed by Lord Norman Foster, for live music. The building towers over the River Tyne. It consists of...

The Workplace Gallery is a forward thinking artist led exhibition space. It concentrates largely on the work of young and emerging talent from the...

The Waygood Gallery and Studios is one of the leading artist-led contemporary visual arts venues in the region, and has built a solid reputation for...

Baltic is a major new international centre for contemporary art on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead. It lies right at the...

The Folk Archive is based in the north-east of England, and is an innovative project that has brought together a great deal of documentation and...

The aim of this centre is to make accessible to children a superb collection of artwork and literature that has been collected from authors and...

The world famous Tyne Bridge spans Newcastle and Gateshead in the north east of England. Although it is the most famous of the bridges that...

This gallery is located in the north of England’s largest single-floored open art space. Just a few minutes from the heart of Newcastle city...

Northern Print is the home of contemporary printmaking in this area of the country. It is designed to be an interesting and engaging hands-on...

Two five-storey 16th and 17th Century merchant’s houses are some of the finest examples of preserved architecture from this period in the whole city....

The Side Gallery has decades of experience of collecting and displaying some of the finest documentary photographs that exists in the country, and from across...

Forma is one of the leading galleries in the country for the production and exhibition of high quality contemporary art. The gallery is open...

Newcastle Central Library is an important social and cultural meeting point, at the very heart of the city. For generations, people have come here...

Surviving amid 1960s city centre developments, this building displays features from all of its 700 year existence, from the remains of the 14th Century Augustinian...