Tyne & Wear Archives & Five Ways to Wellbeing Museums (TWAM) is a major regional museum, art gallery Connect To your community and surroundings and archives service. 1 We manage nine museums and Be Active • Five minutes’ walk from Newcastle Central station, • Five minute walk from Haymarket Metro and Bus station 2 Exercise and frequent activity improves and well signposted • Entrance tarmac, paving and resin bonded gravel on paths galleries across Tyneside and physical and mental well being. • Entrance paved/tarmac • Seating available the Archives for . • Seating Available • Wheelchair available (advance booking recommended) Take Notice • Wheelchair available (advance booking recommended) • Large print guides available 3 Be aware of your surroundings • Public telephone and your place within it. • Large print guides available Live Well For full access information contact the museum Learn or visit greatnorthmuseum.org.uk We have been working in partnership with To improve mental wellbeing For full access information contact the museum National Museums Northern Ireland on the Big 4 and build skills. or visit discoverymuseum.org.uk Lottery funded project ‘Live Well’, engaging Great North Museum: Hancock Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4PT older adults with museums and cultural Give Open: Monday –Friday 10am-5pm, Discovery Museum, services. The aim of this project is to increase Be generous to others and spend time Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 11am-4pm Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA quality of life through the 5 ways to wellbeing 5 talking to a friend, loneliness is one Free entry, donations welcome Open: Monday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am-4pm of the biggest disadvantages in the Tel: (0191) 208 6765• Email: [email protected] and to encourage friendship, independence Free entry, donations welcome and learning. UK anda simple conversation can help Tel: (0191) 232 6789 • Email: [email protected] someone who feels alone.

TWAM Vision For evryone to have access to museum and archive provision in Tyne & Wear, to use this access and to value it for the significant and positive impact that it makes upon their lives. • Five minute walk from • Twenty minute walk from • Ten minutes’ walk from Haymarket Metro and Bus station • 21 Bus from Haymarket bus station stops on Durham • Drop off points on John Dobson street and Oxford street Road, just 2 minutes’ walk from the gallery • Entrance gravel and glass tiles (Blue Carpet • Q1 or Q2 from Newcastle Central Station, the art installation) Quayside and Gateshead Interchange. Stops directly • Seating available opposite the gallery on Prince Consort Road. • Wheelchair available (advance booking recommended) • Entrance via paved steps or paved ramp • Large print guides available • Seating available • Wheelchair available (advance booking recommended) For full access information contact the gallery or visit laingartgallery.org.uk For full access information contact the gallery or visit shipleyartgallery.org.uk

Laing Art Gallery Visiting our Museums, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AG Shipley Art Gallery Open: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 2pm-5pm Prince Consort Road, Gateshead, NE8 4JB Galleries & Archives Free entry, donations welcome. Open: Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-5pm Admission charges apply for some exhibitions Free entry, donations welcome Tel: (0191) 278 1611 • Email: [email protected] Tel: (0191) 477 1495 • Email: [email protected] twmuseums.org.uk • Five minute walk from Haymarket Metro • The museum is less than a five minute walk from • Nearest Metro station is Percy Main. If travelling from and Bus station metro and bus station and a five to ten Percy Main, please take the number 19 bus. From • Located on Newcastle University main campus minute walk from the Shields ferry landing Wallsend, please take the number 42 bus. • Entrance tarmac and paving • Entrance tarmac and paving The 310 bus starts from the Haymarket Bus Station in • Seating available • Seating available Newcastle and stops outside the museum. • Wheelchair available (advance booking required) • Wheelchair available (advance booking required) • Entrance is tarmac • Large print guides available • Seating available For full access information contact the gallery • Wheelchair available (advance booking required) or visit hattongallery.org.uk For full access information contact the fort For full access information contact the museum or visit southshieldsmuseum.org.uk or visit stephensonrailwaymuseum.org.uk

Hatton Gallery Kings Road Newcastle University South Shields Museum & Art Gallery Stephenson Railway Museum Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Ocean Road, South Shields NE33 2JA Middle Engine Lane, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE29 8DX Open: Seasonal, please contact the museum or Open: Monday–Saturday 10am –5pm Open: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm check the website for full details Free entry, donations welcome Free entry, donations welcome Tel: (0191) 211 5599 • Email: [email protected] Free entry, donations welcome. Charges apply for train rides. Tel: (0191) 277 8877 Tel: (0191) 200 7146 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

• Three minute walk away from . • From Chichester Metro Station take the 900, 12, 26 • Located on the Ground floor of Discovery Museum • Segedunum is on the bus route for Stagecoach or 50 bus to Arbeia, for timetables and full details • Five minutes’ walk from Newcastle Central station, service 22 (stops on Clayton Street, Grainger Street see nexus and Go North East travel websites we are well signposted from the station and Market Street) to Wallsend Metro Station. www.nexus.org.uk/metro | www.gonortheast.co.uk/ • Entrance paved/tarmac • Entrance via paved ramp • Entrance is flat tarmac and concrete • Seating Available • Seating available • The surface around the Fort is generally flat but • Wheelchair available (advance booking recommended) • Wheelchair available (advance booking required) uneven and can vary from grass to gravel. • Public telephone • Seating available • Large print guides available For full access information contact the fort • Wheelchair available (advance booking required) or visit segedunumromanfort.org.uk For full access information contact the archive For full access information contact the or visit twarchives.org.uk fort or visit arbeiaromanfort.org.uk

Segedunum Roman Fort Arbeia, South Shields Roman Fort Tyne & Wear Archives Buddle Street, Wallsend, NE28 6HR Baring Street, South Shields NE33 2BB Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Open: Seasonal, please contact the fort or check the Open: Seasonal, please contact the fort or check the website Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4JA website for full details for full details. Free entry, donations welcome Open: Tuesday- Friday 10am-4pm Admission charge applies (under 16s free entry) Telephone: (0191) 277 1410 Website: twarchives.org.uk Tel: (0191) 278 4217 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]