Project Snapshot

Project title:

Investing in the future

Programme: Heritage Grants
Applicant: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Grant awarded: £9,246,000

Newcastle’s popular Hancock Museum has been completely redeveloped, bringing together the North East’s premier collections of archaeology, natural history and geology under one roof as the Great North Museum: Hancock. Many of the collections in the new museum are displayed for the first time in modern, interactive galleries. Within the first two months of opening, the museum received over 200,000 visitors, all of whom agreed it deserved to be called “great”.

A family at the Great North Museum: Hancock

Sector

Collections

Activity

Conservation; Learning