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📢 Job opportunity - Customer & Facilities Manager
We're looking to appoint an experienced manager to lead our customer service team and manage four of our venues across North and South Tyneside.
Apply by 26 April, full details 👇
www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/about/jobs
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NEWS - Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend has secured £213,100 from the DCMS @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund to enhance the outdoor visitor experience at this UNESCO World Heritage Site on Hadrian’s Wall 🙌
View of the site and river taken from the panoramic tower at Segedunum in wallsend
Apparently Segedunum Roman Fort turns 1900 this year! I snapped this pic on Saturday when visiting for a fascinating talk by Nick Hodgson on the sites history from pre-Roman settlements, to the reuse of the Roman forts stones in medieval buildings around Tyneside @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
Historical Union Flag, made from wool bunting.
NEWS - North East Museums bidding to save rare Union Flag from the Battle of Trafalgar for the nation www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/news/bid-to-...
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📢 New opportunity - Arts Facilitator
We are looking for an experienced workshop leader to run our Saturday Art Classes at the Laing Art Gallery.
📅 Apply by Tuesday 24 March
Take a look at the role ⬇️
www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/news/saturda...
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📢 Job opportunity - Learning Coordinator
We're looking to appoint an enthusiastic educator to join our team for the Laing Art Gallery and the Shipley Art Gallery.
Apply by 15 March 2026, full details ⬇️
www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/about/jobs
The side wall of a large brick building. Painted on the wall in green text reads 'Laing Art Gallery' on a white background. Below the text are three paintings.
We're hiring! 📢
⭐️ Customer Service Officer, Art Galleries
Permanent, part time
Apply by 11 March 2026
⭐️ Customer Service Assistants
Casual and Seasonal posts
Apply by 12 March 2026
More information and how to apply ⬇️
northeastmuseums.org.uk/about/jobs
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Stat - visits to South Shields Museum & Art Gallery are up 31% since the opening of The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour - Monet: In the Presence of Nature.
Continues until 25 March 2026. Will you be visiting?
'Challenging' roof repairs to city museum begin via BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
Applications are open now until Monday 2nd March. Apply here on the @northeastmuseums.bsky.social Museums website: www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/learn/chris-...
Winners will be announced at a virtual awards ceremony on 26th March.
Watch Martin's video message on YouTube: youtu.be/HXI-LshYz8Q?...
Blandford House as it appeared in 'The Wheatsheaf' publication, July 1901. Copyright, National Co-Operative Archive.
NEWS - Roof restoration work begins on Grade II listed Blandford House, home to Discovery Museum www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/news/roof-re...
Keith said: “This is an amazing opportunity to promote the history and creativity of the communities of North East England, as well as making connections with museums and cultural institutions in China to explore ways we can potentially work together.”
Keith will be promoting the strength of creative industries and the rich and unique art, culture and heritage of North East England including the 12 museums and galleries managed by North East Museums. As well as advocating for the UK’s wider museum sector...
Keith is a Member of the UK Creative Industries Council, Deputy Chair of the National Museums Directors Council and Chair of the North East Combined Authority’s Culture, Creative & Sport Advisory Group, so will be representing museums and culture regionally and nationally...
Keith Merrin, Director of North East Museums, standing at a lectern giving a speech to an audience.
NORTH EAST MUSEUMS’ DIRECTOR JOINS OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT CHINA VISIT
@keithmerrin.bsky.social has joined a delegation including the PM, the SoS for Business and Trade, and leading UK businesses and cultural organisations on a visit to China to discuss cultural and economic ties...
Very welcome annoucement for the sector. Recognises the economic impact of cultural venues in our towns and cities, but also our work to reach everyone in communities, inspire young people and improve lives. www.gov.uk/government/n... @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Great to bring Monet from The National Gallery to South Shields! @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
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Person walking past a Claude Monet painting.
Art conservators with a Claude Monet painting.
14 Jan - a Claude Monet painting arrives at South Shields Museum on loan from London's National Gallery ahead of going on public display from Saturday 17 January 2026.
It's a really interesting life story, Arthur Fenwick's.
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Just a boy and his horse...
From a collection of glass slides of fairground scenes found in the stores at Discovery Museum.
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We're delighted to announce that Discovery Museum has been awarded £193,000 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
These funds will allow us to create a new flexible space for a variety of exciting exhibitions, experiences and events.
Find out more 👇
www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/news/newcast...
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We're hiring! 📢
Join our team as Project Co-ordinator - Exhibitions at Great North Museum: Hancock.
If you have experience of developing a variety of exhibitions and displays, then we'd be delighted to hear from you.
Closing soon, find out more 👇
www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/_/287814
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A screen which reads 'Imagine If... teaching across the North East was truly inclusive, creative and empowering'.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for #ImagineIf2025 today!
The conference’s afternoon workshops focused on inclusion, realising ambition and teacher wellbeing and development.
We'll be sharing resources from today soon, keep an eye out for more information.
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Attendees discovered more about our Cultural Match Programme and the programme's impact from one of last year’s Early Career Teachers.
We rounded off the morning with Jamie Rogers, who shared how their own experiences shaped their work at The Difference.
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A person standing behind a lectern speaking to a crowd. On the screen behind them there is a photo of an adult and child smiling and text which reads 'family learning'.
Councillor Tracey Dixon’s keynote emphasised the importance of how cultural partnerships can transform schools and unlock children’s potential.
Rebecca Jackson, Cragside Primary School, shared their experience of North East Combined Authority’s Excellence in Education Programme.
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A person standing behind a lectern and speaking to a group of people. On the screen behind them text reads 'Imagine If...'.
We’ve had a jammed-packed morning of inspiring and engaging speakers at our ‘Imagine If...’. conference for teachers and educators.
Keith Merrin, Director of North East Museums, welcomed everyone to #ImagineIf2025, as we celebrate its ten year anniversary.
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It's ‘Imagine If...’ today! 🎉
Join us as we share live updates from our annual conference for teachers and educators.
#ImagineIf2025
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'Imagine If...' is back next week 🎉
The conference will focus on The North East Combined Authority's Excellence in Education programme priorities:
📌 Inclusion
📌 Realising potential
📌 Teacher wellbeing and development
Book your place for 13 November 👇
www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/learn/imagin...
A text graphic which reads 'Imagine If... Workshop Themes. Teacher Wellbeing & Development, Inclusion, Realising Potential'. This is overlaid over a photograph of children looking up at something. Below the text are two logos, one reads 'North East Combined Authority, Kim McGuinness, North East Mayor, and the other 'North East Museums'.
Our ‘Imagine If...’ conference for teachers and educators is back in two weeks at the Great North Museum: Hancock.
The conference will focus on inclusion, realising potential and teacher wellbeing and development.
Book your free place for 13 November 👇
www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/learn/imagin...
WE'VE BEEN SHORTLISTED
Really pleased to be shortlisted at the North East Culture Awards 2025 for our partnership with Hodgson Sayers.
We're working together to encourage young people into Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts and Maths careers.