A National Trust property today, this magnificent house has been preserved so that future generations can appreciate the significance of it. One of the...

Wylam Railway Museum opened in 1981 in celebration of the bi-centennial of George Stephenson, the ‘Father of Railways’, a Wylam born man. The small collection...

Gibside is an 18th Century landscape garden and the former home of the Bowes-Lyon family, with miles of walks through wooded slopes, not to mention...

The Discovery Museum is one of the cultural keys to Tyne and Wear and finding out more about this region of England and how it...

Newcastle is a city that has a long and interesting history to be told, and it is done here in a fascinating manner by this...

This area in the north of England has a long and proud tradition associated with the armed forces in Britain, and therefore it is a...

Tyne and Wear Archive Services holds the largest collection of archived material with regard to the northeast of England. Dating back several centuries, and...

ISIS Arts is designed as a facility that can help to improve and develop the talent pool of artists in this area of the country....

Carling Academy Newcastle opened in 2005 with an exclusive, sell-out live performance by Sunderland rockers, The Futureheads. This mid-sized venue offers high quality facilities and...

Cherryburn is the birthplace of a great artist. Thomas Berwick, Northumberland’s greatest wood engraver, was born here in 1753. Famous for his illustration of birds,...

The Vane Gallery was founded in 1997 as a cutting edge contemporary art space in the heart of Newcastle. The purpose of the gallery...

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...

The Theatre Royal is built in a classic style with a beautiful auditorium. It hosts many big travelling shows, including the RSC, so there...

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...

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....

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...

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...

The entrance to the Laing is through the shop. Once inside the main exhibit on the ground floor is Art on Tyneside. Which takes 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...

Newcastle’s premier natural history museum unravels the natural world, through sensational galleries and close encounters with resident reptiles and insects. For more than one hundred...

At the Museum of Antiquities you will find the largest archaeological collection in the North of England. You can see prehistoric rock art, Stone Age...

The Hatton Gallery is affiliated with the University and was opened in 1926. Since its opening, the collection has grown quickly and now features...

Located within the Classics Department at the University of Newcastle, this museum holds a relatively small but impressive collection of pieces that have been excavated...

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 Baring Wing is a modern gallery attached to the University of Newcastle. Outside is the especially commissioned sculpture Pillar Man by Nico Widerberg....

One of the centrepieces of the University of Newcastle, the main library houses one of the finest academic collections in the northeast. The library...

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

This large collection of military vehicles was established in the main part to preserve the many surviving pieces of military hardware that were left over...

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...

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...

Matt’s Gallery was developed in London to allow artists the time and space that they need to slowly evolve and develop their skills, without the...

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

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

This gallery is one of the cultural centre points of this area, and offers a great place to view artistic creations. The gallery carries...

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...

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...

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...