Hancock Museum open at last (Hancock Museum (Newcastle))

Member Name: vamppir8

Product:	Hancock Museum (Newcastle)
Date:	01/08/09 (44 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It's free.

Disadvantages: Too many to liist.

I thought it was very poor and would not visit again. Most items on display were either copies, reproductions, casts, models, or duplicates, including plastic fish and an elephant. If you like being spoon fed this is the place to go. The lighting was so bad is some cases you could not see the item on display. Coins were so far from the glass you could not see them. There is obviously a structural fault upstairs as items in cases wobbled alarmingly as people walked by. Lettering was already worn off of some signage. Why animals in a museum? It's not a zoo! not that they were there (quarantined). You could not hear dialogue from information points because it was so noisy. The glass cases had children's finger smear round adult viewing height. No staff only ones in shops. Where is rest of stuff? Victorian? Ceramics? Industrial heritage? etc? etc? Fine for a place for 5 year olds to run around like maniacs. Give me glass cases any day. It seems that all these modern museums care about is the quantity of people coming through the door so they can get their grants. A good 20% of the touchy feely stuff was already broken/missing and this is the second week of the holidays. Planetarium closed! It's a good job it's free because you wouldn't pay to go in. You have to pay to visit York museum, well worth it in comparison, York is everything a museum should be. I cannot understand why they have dumbed it down so much and spent so much money when there are plenty of other places in Newcastle for hyperactive kids to go and bang buttons.

Summary: Avoid like the plague.