Educational in Newcastle




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For educational attractions that enhance your child's knowledge of the world and its history the educational attractions in Newcastle for all ages of kids and adults too can be found here!
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Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
BALTIC is a place where visitors can experience innovative and provocative new art, relax, have fun, learn and discover fresh ideas.
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Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum, Wallsend
Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum, Wallsend
In AD122 the Emperor Hadrian ordered a mighty frontier system to be built across Britain to defend the Roman Empire from the barbarians to the North. The result was Hadrian's Wall, a 73 mile...
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Tynemouth Priory and Castle
Tynemouth Priory and Castle
Tynemouth Castle and Priory on the coast of North East England was once one of the largest fortified areas in England. Overlooking the North Sea and the River Tyne, it dominates the...
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Castle Keep, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Castle Keep, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The Castle of Newcastle Upon Tyne stands on a steep sided promontory overlooking the River Tyne. The site has been occupied for nearly 2000 years, with flint...
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St Marys Lighthouse, Whitley Bay
St Marys Lighthouse, Whitley Bay
Reached between the tides via a short causeway from the car park, St. Mary's has all the fascination of a miniature, part-time island. Visitors can climb the 137 steps inside the tower to...
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South Shields Museum and Art Gallery
South Shields Museum and Art Gallery
This friendly venue explores the story of South Tyneside through sensational displays, hands-on exhibits and stunning art, including the lifetime achievement of the successful local author Catherine...
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Seven Stories, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Seven Stories, Newcastle Upon Tyne
We celebrate the art of children's books, their place in our childhood and in our culture. Seven Stories opened on the 19th August 2005, to showcase a national collection of manuscripts and...
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Great North Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Great North Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Highlights include a large-scale, interactive model of Hadrian's Wall, major displays showing the wonder and diversity of the animal and plant kingdoms, spectacular objects from the Ancient Greeks...
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Toy Museum, North Shields
Toy Museum, North Shields
The museum has over 8,000 toys on display dating from 1890-1970. We have clockwork and mechanical toys, dolls, prams, cars, puzzles, games, pedal cars and childhood memorabilia. The only toy museum...
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Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Exhibitions, events, theatre shows and the biggest planetarium in the North- all included in the price of admission!   Have you come to Life yet? We’re an award-winning science centre...
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Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Laing is home to an impressive collection of art and sculpture and its exhibition programme is renowned for bringing the biggest names in historic, modern and contemporary art to the North East....
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Discovery Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Discovery Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Discovery Museum is the ideal place to find out all about life on Tyneside, from the region's shipbuilding heritage to inventions which changed the world. Packed full of interactive displays it is...
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Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields
Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields
Re-live the glorious days of the steam railway at the home of George Stephenson's 'Billy' and many other engines from the great age of steam.
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Souter Lighthouse, Sunderland
Souter Lighthouse, Sunderland
Striking Victorian lighthouse above 2½ miles of beach, cliff and grasslands with spectacular views     * The world's first electric lighthouse     * 76 steps to...
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Seaton Delaval Hall, Whitley Bay
Seaton Delaval Hall, Whitley Bay
Seaton Delaval Hall is an English baroque house, built between 1718 and 1728 for Admiral George Delaval.  The house is regarded as the finest example of design by Sir John Vanbrugh; who also...
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Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum, South Shields
Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum, South Shields
An insight into Roman Britain Built around AD160, Arbeia Roman Fort once guarded the entrance to the River Tyne, playing an essential role in the mighty frontier system. Based four miles east of...
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Bede's World, Jarrow
Bede's World, Jarrow
Discover the world of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria at Bede's World. Attractions include an 'Age of Bede' exhibitionin our stunning museum, an Anglo-Saxon farm with rare breeds of animals and reconstructed...
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Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum
Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum
At the North of England Open Air Museum, the past comes to life. Beamish is unique. We're no ordinary museum, but a living, working experience of life as it was in the Great North in the early 1800s...
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Tynemouth Blue Reef Aquarium
Tynemouth Blue Reef Aquarium
Blue Reef is a great place for visitors of all ages to find out more about the wonders of the deep. As well as innovative displays, informative talks and feeding demonstrations, there's an ever...
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Cragside
Cragside
Extraordinary Victorian house, gardens and estate – the wonder of its age 'The palace of a modern magician', inventor Lord Armstrong Victorian England's most technologically-advanced...
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