Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) is a regional group of
United Kingdom national museums and the county archives service located across the
Tyne and Wear area of north-east
England. They have been administered by a joint board of local authorities since the abolition of the
Tyne and Wear Metropolitan County Council in 1986.
They receive financial support from the five local authorities they operate within and since 2012,
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three s ...
. The service is one of those specified in the
Designation Scheme administered by
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three s ...
. In the past, the service received additional financial support from the
Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Since 2021, the director has been Keith Merrin.
Museums
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums are responsible for managing the 9 museums and galleries below and the county archives. They also share use of the Regional Museums Store at
Beamish Museum
Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it wa ...
.
Archives
Tyne and Wear Archives
Tyne and Wear Archives (formerly known as Tyne and Wear Archives Service) is the record office for the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Tyne and Wear Archives preserve documents relating to the area from the 12th to th ...
are based within the
Discovery Museum.
Gallery
File:Blaze in Newcastle.jpg, Shot of fire crews attending a blaze at 'Wesleyan Church Assurance Society' premises
File:Agnes Stewart - Flickr - Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.jpg, Agnes Stewart, convicted criminal in Newcastle between 1871 - 1873
File:202.4136.p15.jpg, One of the objects within "A History of the North East in 100 Objects". A Power Station advert in 1908.
File:Alfred Wilkinson - Flickr - Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.jpg, Alfred Wilkinson, arrested 12 April 1903 for false pretences.
Cross Service Collaborative Ventures
Partnership between the museums and galleries both inside and outside of TWAM has been a significant matter. One example is
The Late Shows
The Late Shows are a one weekend annual cultural initiative developed in Tyne & Wear since 2007. They are intended to attract new audiences to museums and galleries. They have become the largest programme organised in the United Kingdom for the ' M ...
which has run every May since 2007. Another large-scale project has been "A History of the North East in 100 Objects"
that launched in June 2013.
See also
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ComputerTown UK
In the November 1980 issue of the UK's Personal Computer World (PCW magazine), there was an article written by David Tebbutt, about his visit to the Menlo Park Library where the "ComputerTown USA!" a self-help computer literacy movement, started ...
(formerly based in the museum)
References
External links
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Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums at Google Cultural InstituteTyne & Wear Archives public domain photos at
Flickr
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 3 June Wikipedia training
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Museums sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Musical instrument museums in England