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Wooler
The lost Anglo-Saxon royal palace of Northumbria, interpreted beside a Cheviot whisky distillery
Museums in North East England
102 museums
Aycliffe Bus Museum
Newton Aycliffe
North East buses, timetables and depot ephemera, preserved by the people who ran them.
Aydon Castle
Corbridge
One of England's finest medieval fortified manor houses — remarkably complete 13th-century ranges standing to near full height
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick
A mighty medieval fortress — home of the Dukes of Northumberland and Hogwarts School
Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum
South shields
Walk through a reconstructed Roman fort at the gateway to Hadrian's Wall
Auckland Castle
Bishop Auckland
Palace of the Prince Bishops — Zurbarán masterpieces and a transformed northern heritage gem
Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery
Alnwick
Community volunteers celebrating Alnwick and Northumberland's heritage
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art stands as one of the world's most distinctive and ambitious contemporary art spaces, housed in a dramatically converted…
Bamburgh Castle
Bamburgh
England's most iconic coastal fortress — ancient seat of the Kings of Northumbria
Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle
Bernard de Balliol's great Tees castle — Richard III's northern stronghold on the cliff above the river
Beamish Museum
Stanley
Beamish Museum is one of the world's most acclaimed open-air museums, bringing the rich heritage of North East England vividly to life. Spread across 350 acres…
Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens
Belsay
Six centuries of architecture and landscape in the Northumbrian countryside
Berwick Museum And Art Gallery
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick's civic museum in Hawksmoor's historic barracks — with art from the Burrell Collection
Berwick-upon-Tweed Barracks
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Britain's earliest purpose-built barracks — three museums in a single Baroque military complex
Bowes Railway
Springwell Village
The world's only preserved operational standard gauge cable-hauled railway, designed by George Stephenson
Brinkburn Priory
Rothbury
A medieval Augustinian priory hidden in a wooded river bend — one of Northumberland's finest
Brougham Castle
Penrith
Norman riverside fortress restored by Lady Anne Clifford — a powerful symbol of northern determination
Carrawburgh Roman Fort Mithraeum
Carrawburgh
Britain's most atmospheric Roman Mithras temple on Hadrian's Wall
Cherryburn
Stocksfield
Birthplace of Thomas Bewick — wood engraver, naturalist and Northumberland's greatest artist
Chesters Roman Fort and Museum
Hexham
Hadrian's Wall cavalry fort with Britain's finest Roman bathhouse
Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum
Skinningrove
Go underground into the mine that built Teesside — an authentic ironstone mining experience
Corbridge Roman Site Museum
Corbridge
Rome's Northern Frontier — The Corbridge Hoard and a Roman Town on the Tyne
Discovery Museum
Newcastle-upon-tyne
The Discovery Museum stands as Newcastle's flagship science and social history museum, bringing together the region's extraordinary innovation legacy with…
Dunstanburgh Castle
Craster
A hauntingly beautiful ruined fortress on Northumberland's wild coastal cliffs
Durham University Oriental Museum
Durham
Northern England's gateway to the art and cultures of the Orient
Edlingham Castle
Alnwick
A dramatic 14th-century solar tower house rising above the quiet Northumbrian countryside near Alnwick
Etal Castle
Etal
A 14th-century border tower house in one of Northumberland's most picturesque estate villages
Faith Museum
Bishop Auckland
Six thousand years of belief in Britain, told through the objects people kept
Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland
Alnwick
Three centuries of Northumberland military heritage in a castle tower
George Stephenson's Birthplace
Wylam
Where the Father of the Railways was born — a single-room waggonway cottage
Great North Museum: Hancock
Newcastle upon Tyne
Discover the wonders of the natural world and human history
Guisborough Museum
Guisborough
Priory town and ironstone district: the history of Guisborough and east Cleveland
Hartlepool Art Gallery
Hartlepool
Contemporary visual art in a stunning converted Victorian church at the heart of Hartlepool
Hatton Gallery
Newcastle upon Tyne
Home of Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn — one of the 20th century's most important artworks
Heatherslaw Corn Mill
Cornhill-on-tweed
Northumberland's Only Working Watermill — Stone-Ground Flour from the River Till
Hexham Old Gaol
Hexham
England's first purpose-built gaol — 700 years of law, punishment, and Border Reiver history
Hylton Castle
Sunderland
Hylton Castle is one of the most remarkable and best-preserved medieval tower house gatehouse structures in the North East of England. Rising dramatically…
Hopetown Darlington
Darlington
Where the railway revolution began — celebrating the 200th anniversary of the world's first steam railway
Jarrow Hall — Anglo-Saxon Farm, Village and Bede's World
Jarrow
Jarrow Hall stands on one of the most significant historical sites in early medieval England. The complex occupies land adjacent to the monastery of St Paul,…
Killhope, The North of England Lead Mining Museum
Cowshill
Experience the harsh reality of Victorian lead mining in the North Pennines
Kings Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Three centuries of the King's Own Scottish Borderers — raised in Edinburgh Castle in 1689
Kirkleatham Museum
Redcar
Redcar and Cleveland's story — from seaside resort to steel town and beyond
Lady Waterford Hall
Ford
Biblical scenes in a Northumberland village — Louisa Waterford's extraordinary mural masterpiece
Laing Art Gallery
Newcastle upon Tyne
Discover five centuries of British art in the heart of Newcastle
Lindisfarne Castle
Berwick-upon-Tweed
A Tudor fort transformed by Edwin Lutyens into an Arts and Crafts house on Holy Island
Lindisfarne Priory
Berwick-upon-Tweed
The birthplace of the Lindisfarne Gospels — the most sacred site of early Northumbrian Christianity
Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon
Shildon
Birthplace of the railways — where the modern world began
MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art)
Middlesbrough
Where contemporary art meets everyday life
Monkwearmouth Station Museum
Sunderland
Victorian railway grandeur preserved in the heart of Sunderland
Museum of Hartlepool
Hartlepool
Hartlepool's epic story — from prehistoric times to the Historic Quay, with a real paddle steamer alongside
National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool
Hartlepool
HMS Trincomalee, the oldest British warship afloat, and her Georgian quay
Norham Castle
Norham
Mighty border fortress on the Tweed, inspiration for Turner's most luminous paintings
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
Newcastle upon Tyne
Victorian engineering grandeur and the history of coal mining in Newcastle
Preston Park Museum and Grounds
Stockton-on-tees
Step into a Victorian street and explore the social history of Teesside
RNLI Grace Darling Museum
Bamburgh
The story of Victorian Britain's most celebrated heroine and the 1838 Forfarshire rescue
Saltwell Towers
Gateshead
Saltwell Towers is the extraordinary Victorian Gothic mansion that forms the focal point of Saltwell Park, widely regarded as one of the finest Victorian…
Seaton Delaval Hall
Seaton Sluice
Vanbrugh's most dramatic masterpiece — the Enchanted Castle of Northumberland's coast
Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum
Newcastle upon Tyne
Explore the eastern gateway of Hadrian's Wall
Seven Stories — The National Centre for Children's Books
Newcastle upon Tyne
Britain's home for children's books — stories preserved, stories brought to life
Souter Lighthouse
Whitburn
The world's first purpose-built electric lighthouse — a Victorian marvel on the Tyne
South Shields Museum and Art Gallery
South shields
The story of South Tyneside — from Roman soldiers to Catherine Cookson
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Sunderland
Art, history and exotic nature in Sunderland's cultural heart
Tees Cottage Pumping Station
Darlington
A Victorian beam engine, a gas engine and a smithy — steamed on about six weekends a year
The Biscuit Factory
Newcastle upon Tyne
The UK's largest independent art gallery in Newcastle's creative Ouseburn Valley
The Heritage Centre Bellingham
Bellingham
Border Reivers, Roman roads, and wild Northumberland in the gateway town to Northumberland National Park
The Light Dragoons Museum
Newcastle upon Tyne
Two and a half centuries of light cavalry — from Balaclava to Normandy
Tynemouth Priory and Castle
Tynemouth
Dramatic coastal ruins of a Benedictine priory and castle above the mouth of the Tyne
Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House
Tynemouth
The first volunteer life brigade, still operational, in its own Watch House above the Tyne
Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens
Durham
Three generations of Pugin chapels in a former Catholic seminary outside Durham
Victoria Tunnel
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle's hidden underground heritage from Victorian coal to WWII shelter
Wallington
Morpeth
Northumberland's great Victorian intellectual house — and a Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece
Warkworth Castle
Warkworth
A magnificent Percy family fortress with a unique cliff-carved hermitage on the River Coquet
Washington F Pit Museum
Washington
Washington F Pit Museum preserves one of the most complete Victorian colliery arrangements surviving in the North East of England. Situated in the historic…
Washington Old Hall
Washington
The ancestral home of the Washington family, tracing the roots of America's first president in a beautifully preserved medieval manor house
Weardale Museum
Ireshopeburn
Lead, faith, and solitude — the story of England's most remote Pennine dale
Woodhorn Museum
Ashington
The colliery that became a cultural landmark — art, industry and community in Northumberland
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