Durham University’s specialist museum showcases an exhibition which ranges from the prehistory to modern times, charting the history of Durham.

Durham University displays a devoted exhibition, looking at the art and archaeology of the great cultures of Northern Africa and Asia.

Built in the heart of Sunderland city centre, the Museum, Library and Winter Garden tells the fantastic history of Sunderland from its earliest days.

The Ryhope Engines Museum is a volunteer-led museum that preserves the history of the pumping stations that provided Sunderland with fresh water and helped combat disease.

Located within The National Glass Centre, next to the River Wear, is the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, which dates back to the sixties.

The North East Land, Air and Sea Museum occupies what was once Sunderland Airport, holding an impressive repository of vehicles.

The National Glass Centre tells how glass, a delicate and light material, came to be such a large part of Sunderland’s stature and history.

A unique historical site showing the story of the railways from George Stephenson until the beginning of deindustrialisation in the 1960s and 1970s.

Locomotion is a railway museum found in Shildon, known as the world’s first railway town, telling the historic story of train travel.

Beamish is the Living History Museum of the North, where a huge collection of artefacts has been gathered for discovery and representation.

The Bowes Museum is the North of England’s Museum of Art, Fashion and Design, with a collection that includes art, ceramics and textiles.

Newcastle has been a place of innovation for centuries with inventions that have shaped the world and, in a building that started as an office for the Cooperative society, you can discover it all in one of Newcastle’s science museums – The Discovery Museum.