Galleries and Museums
Great North Museum and Gallery
Next to campus, the University-led Great North Museum: Hancock houses an impressive collection of 3,500 natural history, archaeological and ethnological collections.
The University has its own gallery: the Hatton Gallery.
Science Museums
At the other end of town, the interactive Centre for Life and the Discovery Museum carry forward the city's interest in science.
Galleries
For modern art the converted grain warehouse Baltic on the Gateshead Quays offers one of the biggest spaces in Europe for its ever-changing calendar of exhibitions. The Biscuit Factory, which started life as a working Victorian factory is now Britain's biggest commercial gallery.
The city's Laing Art Gallery focuses on the traditional, with an impressive selection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paintings, as well as a rolling programme of exhibitions featuring contemporary artists.
Specialist galleries include the Cluny, the Side Gallery and Newcastle Arts Centre.