Past Exhibition Highlights
12th February to 6th March 2024: Women in Shipbuilding
An exhibition of archival photography from the Imperial War Museum collections, showing women's involvement in the North East shipbuilding industry. In a partnership led by Historic England and funded by Lloyds Register Foundation, as part of their wider Rewriting Women into Maritime History initiative.
19th April to 7th May 2022: Metro Memories
Northern Cultural Projects (NCP) and Newcastle University Oral History Collective exhibited material collected in partnership with Nexus and Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, to celebrate 40 years of Metro history. Including oral history, photography, film, original Metro artefacts, models, and crowdsourced memorabilia.
Autumn 2021: Digging Deep
Designed and curated by the Black Miners Museum, Nottingham News Centre and Norma Gregory, highlighting the personal narratives and memories of former African Caribbean coal miners through original artworks, archive and contemporary photographs, memorabilia, poetry and audio-visual interpretation.
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Graft & Glory: Online Exhibition
Graft & Glory is our flagship exhibition telling the story of our region’s engineering past, present and future. This is an online exhibition that you can explore from the comfort of you own home and unearth our industrial heritage. It is best explored on laptop, desktop or tablet devices.
