Woodhorn Museum

Opening times

  • Monday Closed
  • Tuesday Closed
  • Wednesday 10am - 4pm
  • Thursday 10am - 4pm
  • Friday 10am - 4pm
  • Saturday 10am - 4pm
  • Sunday 10am - 4pm

Contact Us

E:
T: 01670 624455
More information

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery (closed for the winter)

Opening times

  • Monday Closed
  • Tuesday Closed
  • Wednesday Closed
  • Thursday Closed
  • Friday Closed
  • Saturday Closed
  • Sunday Closed

Contact Us

E:
T: 01670 620277
More information

Hexham Old Gaol (closed for the winter)

Opening times

  • Monday Closed
  • Tuesday Closed
  • Wednesday Closed
  • Thursday Closed
  • Friday Closed
  • Saturday Closed
  • Sunday Closed

Contact Us

E:
T: 01670 624523
More information

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

Opening times

  • Monday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Tuesday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Wednesday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Thursday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Friday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Saturday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Sunday Closed

Contact Us

E:
T: 01670 624490
More information
Menu
×

Your basket

Object In Focus

Sharing Northumberland's Stories

Welcome to Museum Northumberland’s ‘Object in Focus’ page.  Here we will showcase objects and stories from the collections – some of these items will be familiar from our permanent displays, whilst others are being shared for the first time.  We’d love to hear your thoughts about our collections so get in touch and let us know what you think: collections@museumsnorthumberland.org.uk

MN-Collections-Object-ASHMM 1989-17-29 Andrew Rankin - Pit Accident - c1938

'Pit Accident', by Andrew Rankin

Woodhorn Museum
Museums Northumberland collections exotic insects at Berwick Museum

Exotic Insects

Berwick Museum & Art Gallery
Museums Northumberland collections Woodhorn Museum Oak beam Hartley disaster

The Hartley Pit Disaster, 1862

Woodhorn Museum

Tea Service presented to Lizzie Storey

Hexham Old Gaol

Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) badge and collecting tin

Woodhorn Museum

Zoomorphic Flask

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Explosives used by the National Coal Board

Woodhorn Museum

Portrait of Elizabeth Frances Riddell and a collection of her books

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Portrait of a Lady with a Coral Bracelet

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Famille Noir Jars

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Papier-mâché Easter Egg

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Mirrors with Turtle & Crane design

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

The Life of Jonathan Martin

Hexham House of Correction

Walter Bell, Pitmen Painter

Woodhorn Museum

Jamie Allan

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

John R. Jenkins, Pitmen Painter

Woodhorn Museum

'Gypsy Camp (Rothbury)'

Woodhorn Museum

The Relics of the House of Radcliffe

Hexham Old Gaol

The Unthank Hall Scrapbook

Hexham Old Gaol

HMS Tynedale

Hexham Old Gaol

Nymphenburg China

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Stereoscope and slides

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery
Tally board with tallies

First Footing

Woodhorn Museum
ERMG 256 dragon & carp plate

Chinese porcelain

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Foot Stove

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Inuit soapstone carving

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Ashington Colliery Band

Woodhorn Museum

Sir John Lavery – “My Lady Disdain”

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Mangle Board

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery
Picture of Untitled Puddle Painting (The Hole) by artist Narbi Price

Untitled Puddle Painting (The Hole) by Narbi Price

Woodhorn Museum

Boy's Brigade doll

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

The Arnold, Foster Mother for feeding young livestock – 20th Century

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

John Peacock’s Northumbrian small pipes, 1797

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum
White porcelain statuette, made in one piece. The miners deputy has lost his outstretched arm holding the safety lamp. His remaining arm rests on a pick axe. The figure stands on a large plinth decorated with a laurel wreath, near the base of the plinth is a black and white image of a colliery, presumably Woodhorn Colliery, showing a large chimney, two heapsteads and pit wheels, and some ancillary buildings enclosed within a fence in the foreground.

The Ashington Miners' Memorial

Woodhorn Museum

Marionette Puppet, 20th Century

Berwick Museum & Art Gallery

Genozo Toothpaste Ornament, 20th Century

Berwick Museum & Art Gallery

Hexham Market Place by Miles Birket Foster

Hexham Old Gaol & The Moot Hall

Solar Viewer, Eclipse, 11th August 1999, 20th Century

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Snuff Case, 19th Century

Berwick Museum & Art Gallery

The Local Historian’s table book, of Remarkable Occurrences, historical facts, traditions, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, connected with the counties of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. By M. A. Richardson, Volume II

Hexham Old Gaol & The Moot Hall

The Walker Fan House

Woodhorn Museum

Vintage Toys

Berwick Museum & Art Gallery

John Mackay Wilson and his “Tales of the Borders”

Berwick Museum & Art Gallery

Chater Annuals

Hexham Old Gaol & The Moot Hall

The anniversary of Woodhorn Colliery closure

Woodhorn Museum

A Homage to Emily Wilding Davison

Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

The Annual Banner Ramp Rotation

Woodhorn Museum

The Feast and Crowning of the Salmon Queen

Berwick Museum & Art Gallery

Woodhorn Colliery Disaster, 13th August 1916

Woodhorn Colliery Disaster, 13th August 1916

Remembering the First World War

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Maritime Disaster, 9th December 1904

Woodhorn Museum

Antiques Roadshow visits Woodhorn Museum, Summer 2021 

Woodhorn Museum

Danseurs Russes by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery
In the foreground there is a farmer using a plough being pulled through the fields by two horses. Obverse is inscribed with, ‘Northumberland Agricultural Society 1925’.

Silver Agricultural Medal

Woodhorn Museum
Photograph of Jack Clough Miners Picnic Secretary

Jack Clough Northumberland Miners' Picnic Secretary

Woodhorn Museum

Jackie Milburn Medal for top 100 players 1888-1988 and Child’s Bear Ipswich football club

Woodhorn Museum

Crab Engine no. 513 by Wood and Gee, Wigan

Woodhorn Museum

Miner, Kevin Hedley and his model of Heapstead no.1 

Woodhorn Museum

International Women's Day (IWD) Women’s Labour Bedlington Section Banner

Woodhorn Museum
The Ord Cross - a 12 carat gold cross

The East Ord Cross

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Explore

Our Collections

What's On

Our Museums