Great North Museum: Hancock
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Description
"The Hancock Museum was closed between 23 April 2006 and 23 May 2009 for refurbishment and new build costing £26 million. As The Great North Museum, it now includes not only the Hancock Museum collections, but also those of the University's Museum of Antiquities and the Shefton Museum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Museum The photo shows the rear yard of Farrells' new gallery building [[1759770]] which adjoins the old Hancock building to the left [[1759630]] On the right, is the Devonshire Building of Newcastle University [[1760306]]. The metal screen covering the south side of this building is a computerised 'brise soleil' to shade glass from the sun and control heating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brise_soleil" Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2010. -
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Andrew Curtis -
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License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1759733
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 6 years, 6 months ago
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Picture Taken: 2010-03-18 -
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