Museum / Gallery

Beamish is the world famous open air museum telling the story of the people of North East England in the 1800s and 1900s. Beamish stands in 300 acres of
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Surrounded by tranquil gardens and parkland in the historic market town of Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum is a unique cultural icon. A splendid 19th Century French style chateau,
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The DLI museum tells the proud 200-year-old story of the Durham Light Infantry, especially during World War I and World War II. The displays focus on the experience of
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This museum is established in the redundant Church of St Mary-le-Bow close to the Cathedral by the Bow Trust as part of its work to
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The Glass and Art Gallery is housed on the ground floor of a Victorian building in Consett. The gallery features artwork by over 120 artists from the
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Killhope the North East's Small Visitor Attraction of the year and inaugural winner of the Guardian's Family Friendly Museum is where visitors can discover the lives of Victorian
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Durham University Library Special Collections is housed in a cluster of buildings in Durham. It contains many documents of hisptorical importance including over 75,000 books printed before 1850, 100 medieval manuscripts, 3,400
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Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon officially opened in 2004 and is the first national museum to be built in the North East. The museum was built
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Once a key part of Durham's cloth-making industry, The Old Fulling Mill is now home to Durham University's Museum of Archaeology. The collections on display provide a fascinating insight
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The Oriental Museum is the country's only museum devoted entirely to Oriental art and atiquities. The remarkable collections reveal to the visitor the history and pre-history of the
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Rokeby Park is a fine Palladian mansion near the confluence of the River Tees and River Greta, at Barnard Castle. It has an unique collection of needlework paintings
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Housed within Durham Cathedral, this exhibition includes relics of St Cuthbert, embroidered vestments, an 11th Century sanctuary knocker, manuscripts, altar plate and seals. There is also a
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