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News £5.5 million new institute for Spanish art in Bishop Auckland to "stand up against any museum in world"Curators say a new £5.5 million institute of Spanish and Hispanic Art in County Durham, planned as part of the restoration of Auckland Castle. will "stand up against any museum in the world".09 November 2015 -
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Durham Ancient Egyptian art and archaeologyThis gallery has been designed to introduce younger visitors to Ancient Egypt. Displays cover those topics usually taught at school such as food and farming, building, writing and beliefs. Labelling has been designed to ...Oriental Museum | Durham | 1 November 2019 — 31 December 2021 -
News Ancient trains to rattle through Durham again as Weardale Railway is reopened after 17 yearsTwo historic trains will take visitors on idyllic journeys through County Durham after a rail route received holy support.11 June 2010 -
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News Archaeologists begin "exciting" search for ancient settlement beneath Durham villageDrone pictures are likely to have identified a settlement established long before Brignall, a village first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and held by Edwin, Earl of Mercia, before the Norman Conquest.05 October 2015 -
News Archaeologists find Stone Age campsite where hunters fished and foraged on TeessideArchaeologists who saw a crowd of stones sticking out of eroding peat at a nature reserve say they have retrieved 1,500 pieces of a Stone Age campsite, ranging from Mesolithic objects to industrial waste flakes.01 September 2015 -
Preview Artist puts 40-part choral performance through oval of 40 speakers at 900-year-old castleBishop Auckland Castle, the palatial home of the Prince Bishops of County Durham, is the setting for an "extraordinary" new installation by the Canadian artist based around a 16th century sacred composition.27 June 2016 -
Interview Artist's Statement: John Kippin on the north-south divide at the National Glass CentreThe artist tells us about his work for the current Encountering Photography festival in the north-east, nodding to 600 years of shipbuilding and being "in it together".28 October 2013 -
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Transport heritage site: Association or society County: Durham Aycliffe and District Bus Preservation Society Newton Aycliffe
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News Beamish Museum receives fruit and vegetables bottled by greengrocer 103 years agoContainers of carrots, peas, asparagus and cherries, bottled to award-winning effect in Darlington in 1910, have been given to Durham's Beamish Museum.11 July 2013 -
News Beamish Open Air Museum in plea for broken biscuit supplierBeamish Open Air Museum needs a supplier of broken biscuits for the Edwardian display in their Annfield Plain Co-op.14 June 2010 -
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Bowes Museum acquires "sparkling" Flipart copies of Venetian paintings by Pietro LonghiTwo exquisite depictions of 18th century life, The Lover of a Venetian Lady and The Encounter of a Procurator with his Wife at Ridotto, head for Durham thanks to The Art Fund.27 August 2013 -
News Bowes Museum calls on Kickstarter campaign to fund giant Gavin Turk neonA giant installation will be added to the front of the Bowes if a £6,000 campaign succeeds, coinciding with a solo show of neons by artist Gavin Turk.02 January 2014 -
News Bowes Museum to put masterpieces by JMW Turner and Édouard Manet on displayA good month for The Bowes has got even better with the acquisition of a Turner painting of the north-east and the temporary arrival of Manet's Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus.27 March 2013
