New museum for the North

The Great North Museum, a new £26 million visitor attraction in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is opening in April. The museum will have a number of permanent exhibitions on subjects that include natural history, the ancient world and global cultures. Highlights will include a life-size skeleton of a T-Rex dinosaur, a planetarium, Ancient Greek art and archaeology, mummies from the Egyptian pyramids and a huge ‘bio wall’, complete with live fish and reptile tanks. Admission to the museum will be free, with around 300,000 people expected to visit in 2009. For details go to www.greatnorthmuseum.org

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