Places to Visit in Newcastle: Discovery Museum

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The Discovery Museum is a cultural landmark in Newcastle, that tells the story of the history of Newcastle focusing on the area's maritime, scientific and technological importance to Britain and the rest of the world. Amy Baird speaks about their upcoming Tiny Sparks Takeover Event!

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00:00The North East is filled with fantastic cultural landmarks where both locals and tourists can

00:06enjoy and learn about this amazing region. Today I'm at the Discovery Museum located

00:10in Newcastle. I spoke with their Learning and Coordination and Early Years Lead, Amy

00:14Baird, to find out about their Tiny Sparks Takeover event that takes place on the 14th

00:18of March.

00:20So Discovery Museum is located in central Newcastle, very near to the central train

00:26station and it's in a very iconic building and Discovery Museum quite simply tells the

00:32story of Tyneside and its people from science, engineering, technology and local stories

00:39about ships and ship building and just a really lovely place where all of those stories are

00:45shared.

00:46So the event that's taking place on Friday the 14th of March is our Tiny Sparks Takeover

00:51event. So it happens twice a year and we're very excited because next week is our biannual

00:57big event and it's happening during British Science Week. So it's the perfect time to

01:02welcome our youngest visitors and their families and carers to the museum and they get to take

01:08over the whole first floor of the museum and we have a whole range of simple play activities

01:13that are really hands-on and engaging and exciting for little ones to really get to

01:19explore the collections in a different way. So we've got dress up, we've got sorting and

01:24counting activities, we've got investigating and wondrous objects and also arts and crafts

01:31and they get to come and do all of those things in the museum and on that day for that event

01:36we make sure that older children, like school groups for example, they come and visit on

01:41different days. So on that morning it's really a great opportunity for our smallest visitors

01:46to come and to engage with the museum.

01:49It's created for children from the age of 33 months to five years

01:53but younger siblings are welcome too. The Tiny Sparks Takeover is a highlight in the annual

01:58Tiny Sparks programme at the museum. The smaller scale Tiny Sparks sessions are currently on a

02:03weekly basis during term time which is also great fun for your little ones.

02:09So the event provides a really lovely way to have like a shared learning experience with

02:15the grown-ups and the little ones and lots of our visitors say that when they come into the museum

02:21that it's somewhere that they've been before, maybe when they were younger as well.

02:24So we find that Discovery Museum is a really sort of nostalgic venue and when parents and

02:30carers come into the museum they have lots of their own stories and memories of being here

02:36and so having that event for our youngest children and their grown-ups means that they can do

02:41something together in the museum and it also introduces them to the museum and its collections

02:46and hopefully they have such a lovely time at that event that they want to come back again

02:50and again as their children grow up. We have plenty of spaces left on the event and you can

02:55head to our website and all the information is there and that's where you can book tickets.

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