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Baltic-The Centre for Contemporary Art
Once a huge, dirty, yellow grain store overlooking the Tyne, Baltic-The Centre for Contemporary Art is now a huge, dirty, yellow art gallery to rival London's Tate Modern. Unlike the Tate, there are no permanent exhibitions here, but the constantly rotating shows feature the work and installations of some of contemporary art's biggest show stoppers.
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Biscuit Factory
No prizes for guessing what this brand-new public art gallery used to be. What it is now, though, is the country's biggest art shop, where you can peruse and buy work by artists from near and far in a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, glassware and furniture. Prices are thoroughly democratic, ranging from £20 to £25000 , but even if you don't buy the art is excellent and there's a top-class restaurant upstairs.
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Discovery Museum
Newcastle's rich history is uncovered through a fascinating series of exhibits at this excellent Discovery Museum. The exhibits, spread across three floors of the former Co-operative Wholesale Society building, surround the mightily impressive 30m-long Turbinia , the fastest ship in the world in 1897. The different sections are all worth a look; our favourites were the self-explanatory Story of the Tyne and the interactive Science Maze.
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Laing Art Gallery
The exceptional collection at the Laing Art Gallery includes works by Kitaj, Frank Auerbach, Henry Moore and an important collection of paintings by John Martin (1789-1854), a Northumberland-born artist.
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Seven Stories
A marvellous conversion of a handsome Victorian mill has resulted in Seven Stories, a very hands-on museum dedicated to the wondrous world of children's literature. Across the seven floors you'll find original manuscripts, a growing collection of artwork from the 1930s onwards and a constantly changing programme of exhibitions, activities and events designed to encourage the AA Milnes of the new millennium.
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