Information on all the council owned museums and galleries in Northumberland
Burrell at Berwick.
A changing display of art donated by the Glasgow shipping millionaire Sir William Burrell.
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Discover the story of Hexham Old Gaol.
Find out more about the history of the oldest purpose built prison in England.
Discover the historic town of Berwick, looking and listening to the sights and sounds of the past. Find out about Berwick’s heroic Medieval story. Wonder at the treasures collected by millionaire Sir William Burrell. See an ever-changing programme of temporary exhibitions.
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The Old Gaol was England’s first recorded purpose-built prison, built by order of the Archbishop of York in 1333. From then to the 1800s it housed many prisoners, locked up until their trials in the Courtroom of the Moothall.
This museum is home to a unique bagpipe collection, the foundation of which is the bagpipe collection of William Alfred Cocks a clockmaker from Ryton, near Newcastle.
Northumberland’s world class visitor attraction and research centre. Discover the history of Northumberland and in particular the story of coal mining in the county. Find out more
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