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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

 
Description: One of the largest municipal museums in the country plus a Winter Gardens housing 1,500 exotic and unusual flowers.

Newest Review: ... museum, but it has an art gallery, and an end section which is a huge glass see through dome with various plants and trees growing. in this dome, you can go in a glass lift and go although the tree top wlk to a look down at the big exhibition of plants. the museum has many eras to it, and mainly focuses on the history of sunderland such as coal mining, and past lifestyles of the 19th ... more

 ... century. there are also parts about the ship building on the river wear and what part sunderland played during the world wars, and in fact, the winter gardens was bombed during the world war. behind the museum is a large park, with a lake and grass areas, wh...more

sunboi2k8
Premium Review Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens: not always winter (245 words)
by sunboi2k8 - written on 07/07/08 (Useful, 17 readings)
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the winter gardens is the best museum is sunderland. it is located in the city centre, at the end of a long street of shops, which could be why it has so many visitors, apart from the fact that there is no entrance fee. not only is it a museum, but it has an art gallery, and an end section which is a huge glass see through dome with various plants and trees growing. in this dome, you can go in a glass lift and go although the tree top wlk to a look down at the big exhibition of plants. the museum has many eras to it, and mainly focuses on the history of sunderland such as coal mining, and past lifestyles of the 19th century. there are also parts ...

michaelhudson
Crowned Review From Mandalay to Mowbray (1358 words)
by michaelhudson - written on 19/06/03 (Very useful, 372 readings)
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Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens opened to the public in July 2001 following two years of redevelopment work paid for by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. One of the most visited museums outside the capital, it stands on the edge of the Victorian Mowbray Park a short walk from the Bridges Shopping Centre and the Metro link to Newcastle. At the glazed entrance, a gift shop extends to the right and Museum Street commences directly ahead. The first display is of Sunderland Heroes - campaign medals and a small memorial to the 197 men of the 125th Anti - Tank Regiment who were killed or imprisoned at the fall of Singapore, England caps and club medals ...

 

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