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The Great North Museum: Hancock is a museum of natural history and archaeology on Barras Bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne, housed in a Victorian building opened in 1884. Its galleries cover Ancient Egypt with two mummies, Greek antiquities, Hadrian's Wall and northern wildlife, alongside a T. rex skeleton cast and a planetarium.
The Laing Art Gallery on New Bridge Street in Newcastle upon Tyne opened in 1904 in a Baroque building with Art Nouveau details by Cackett & Burns Dick, paid for by the wine merchant Alexander Laing. The collection includes paintings by John Martin and William Holman Hunt, watercolours by Turner, Beilby enamelled glass and Newcastle silver.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art occupies a converted flour mill, in use from 1950 to 1984, on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, facing Newcastle's Quayside. Opened in July 2002 to a design by Dominic Williams of Ellis Williams Architects, it shows changing exhibitions with no permanent collection and has viewing platforms over the river.
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