Discovery Museum is a science museum and local history museum situated in Blandford Square in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
It displays many exhibits of local history, including Turbinia, the 34 metre long ship built by Charles Algernon Parsons to test the advantages of using the steam turbine to power ships. It also features examples of Joseph Swan's early lightbulbs which were invented on Tyneside.
Discovery Museum started life in 1934 as the Municipal Museum of Science and Industry. The collections were housed in a temporary pavilion built for the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition in Exhibition Park, Newcastle. This was the first UK science museum outside London.
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Researchers from a museum in Pennsylvania were part of a recent major discovery ... The tomb was almost 23 feet beneath the ground, and marks the second major discovery of its kind for this year.
The Perilous Plunge is a fundraiser for the RedwoodDiscovery Museum, which has already earned over $23,000 of thr $35,000 goal for the event ... serves as a fundraiser for the Redwood Discovery Museum.
But a new discovery by a metal detectorist has cast doubt on the helmet's origins - and could re-write the story of early European history...PeterPentz, a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, told the Ritzau news agency.
“Local museums are the storytellers ... “Museums and libraries are cherished cultural spaces in villages, towns and cities across the country where people come together, share ideas and make discoveries.
Major pre-columbian archaeological discovery in Jerico, Colombia. The discovery was made by a young coffee grower from the Mirantonio farm, located in the La Soledad district ... This is not the first archaeological discovery in the area.