Museums in Tyne and Wear

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Historic house museums in Tyne and Wear, Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne, Museums in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Museums, Holy Jesus Hospital, Hancock Museum, The Castle, Newcastle, List of museums in Tyne and Wear, Tynemouth Castle and Priory, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Centre for Life, Segedunum, Turbinia, Great North Museum, National Glass Centre, Blackfriars, Newcastle, Seven Stories, Bowes Railway, Souter Lighthouse, Shipley Art Gallery, Washington Old Hall, Arbeia, Hatton Gallery, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Discovery Museum, Museum of Antiquities, Shefton Museum, Stephenson Railway Museum, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, North East Aircraft Museum, Bede's World, Laing Art Gallery, Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Bessie Surtees House, St. Mary's Lighthouse, Ryhope Engines Museum, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland Art Gallery, Path Head Watermill. Excerpt: The Holy Jesus Hospital is a museum and tourist attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in the care of the National Trust. The site of the hospital has been in use for 700 years helping the townspeople, and this history is explained by the museum currently on the site. There was an Augustinian Friary on the site from the thirteenth century, then a hospital or almshouse for housing retired freemen, then a soup kitchen in the nineteenth century, before the site acquired its current function as a museum. The museum also serves as the basis of the Inner City Project of the National Trust. The Inner City Project takes people of ages 12¿25 and over 50 out to the countryside in order to increase appreciation of the city's natural surroundings. The building is of architectural interest because it still retains architectural elements from many previous centuries, including a thirteenth century sacristy wall and 16th century fortifications connected with the King's Council of the North. It is also one of only two intact 17th century brick buildings that survive in the city, the other being Alderman Fenwick's House. In the 13th Century, Newcastle upon Tyne had a population of around 4,000; and it was difficult for the four parish churches to care for the needs of such a large population. The priests were expected to be educators, doctors and counsellors; as well as meet the spiritual needs of their parishioners. Therefore, in 1291 land was gifted by William Baron of Wark on Tweed to found an Augustinian Friary on the land on which the museum now stands. Richard II issued a proclamation banning the dumping of waste near the Friary siteThe Augustinian Friars were originally an order of hermits in Northern Italy whom Pope Alexander IV first congregated into a single body in 1256. The Order spread to France and then to England after being invited by Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford to found Clare Priory in Suffolk, by the River Stour. On 3 September 1249 de Clare was abl