Discovery Museum

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Discovery Museum

Image: © David P Howard Taken: 29 Aug 2013

Discovery Museum is a science museum and local history museum. It displays many exhibits, including Turbinia, the 34 metre long ship built by Charles Algernon Parsons to test the advantages of using the steam turbine to power ships. It also features examples of Joseph Swan's early light bulbs which were invented on Tyneside. Discovery Museum started life in 1934 as the Municipal Museum of Science and Industry. The collections were housed in a temporary pavilion built for the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition in Exhibition Park, Newcastle. This was the first UK science museum outside London. The collections and displays grew for another forty years, until the temporary pavilion could no longer meet the Museum's needs. In 1978, the Museum was re-located to Blandford House, the former Co-operative Wholesale Society Headquarters for the Northern Region. Designed by Oliver, Leeson and Wood, this magnificent 1899 building had been the distribution centre for over 100 Co-op stores across the region, and contained extensive warehouse space and offices. In 1993 the Museum was re-launched as Discovery Museum. http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_Discovery_Museum

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