Managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on behalf of Arts Council
Welcome to our online directory. This resource will help you find the great arts and cultural organisations across the North East that all have something amazing to offer your school. You can search using geographical location, subject areas or key stages. These organisations can also help support your pupils to achieve Arts Award and your school to achieve Artsmark.
The Shipley Art Gallery is home to the largest collection of contemporary craft outside London, and includes work in a wide variety of media, such as ceramics, wood, metal, and textiles. It also houses objects important to the history of Gateshead.
Skimstone Arts makes captivating theatre, music, and digital art in collaboration with artists, researchers, and people experiencing increased social vulnerability. It supports the arts practice and leadership skills of young people, and has over eight years’ experience delivering Arts Award.
The Soundroom is a charity whose object is to advance education in music and the arts. A youth scheme in music and related arts is delivered to enable young people to achieve Arts Award.
South Shields Museum and Art Gallery has a fascinating collection of objects and artworks relating to the local area. It has Arts Award Advisers trained from Discover to Silver levels, all of whom can facilitate projects for all ages and abilities.
South Tyneside Libraries school Arts Award programme focuses on promoting reading, literacy and the love of books.
Stephenson Railway Museum is home to engines and artefacts that tell the story of the North East’s unique railway heritage and the legacy of the great railway pioneers, George and Robert Stephenson.
The Sunderland Empire’s active, forward thinking and creative learning team strives to provide opportunities for children and young people to engage with theatre and performing arts. Its tailored Arts Award programmes cover a wide spectrum of subjects, ages, and learning needs.
Sunderland Museums & Winter Gardens delivers a wide variety of arts activities and projects for children and young people based at the inspirational venues, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, and Washington ‘F’ Pit, and in community settings such as schools.
Sunderland Music Hub works with schools, providers and stakeholders delivering a high quality music education, a wide ranging music enrichment programme and singing and playing opportunities for all.
Tyne & Wear Archives is the largest archives service in the North East, with 12 miles of shelves holding millions of documents; it offers teachers a goldmine of primary source material covering 500 years of local and national history.
