Barras Bridge
TYNE & WEAR - Newcastle, England, NE99 1NP

Phone: 0191 222 7418

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December 2019: Both machines gone. Gift shop staff say they are both broken and will not be fixed anytime soon, if ever.

The Great North Museum: Hancock, a museum of natural history and ancient civilizations, was established in 1884 and was formerly known as the Hancock Museum. In 2006 it merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. The museum reopened as the Great North Museum: Hancock in May 2009 following a major extension and refurbishment of the original Victorian building. The museum and most of its collections are owned by the Natural History Society of Northumbria, and it is managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on behalf of Newcastle University.

Machine 2 - Gift Shop. All say 'Great North Museum'. Designs are:
1) 'Great North Museum: Hancock', Skeleton of T-Rex head,
2) 'Great North Museum, Love My Mummy', Mummy standing,
3) 'Great North Museum, Out of This World!', Saturn,
4) 'Great North Museum, Jaw Dropping!', Shark facing forward

Machine 3 - Ground Floor. Designs are:
1) 'Walk the Wall Bowness-Wallsend', Legs,
2) 'Live or Die, Segedunum-Arbeia', Hand with thumb down,
3) 'Julius Geordius,Julius Geordius', Man in middle,
4) 'There's No Place Like Rome', Caesar's head.

Retired 1: Design:
1)Walking Egyptian mummy. Text: 'I Love my Mummy, Hancock Museum'.