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Great North Museum: Hancock

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Great North Museum: Hancock
Great North Museum: Hancock. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Great North Museum: Hancock is a museum of natural history and ancient civilisations in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

The museum was established in 1884 and was formerly known as the Hancock Museum. In 2006 it merged with Newcastle University's Museum of Antiquities and Shefton Museum to form the Great North Museum. The museum reopened as the Great North Museum: Hancock in May 2009 following a major extension and refurbishment of the original Victorian building.

The museum and most of its collections are owned by the Natural History Society of Northumbria, and it is managed by North East Museums on behalf of Newcastle University.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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