 The Hancock Museum was opened on its present site in 1884 |
The admission charge to a Tyneside museum is to be dropped on Monday for the first time in more than a century. Free entry to Newcastle's Hancock Museum is being introduced to pave the way for the planned Great North Museum.
This will bring together the natural history collection and archaeological treasures currently housed in a number of galleries in the city.
Whilst entry to the Hancock will be free, there will still be a charge for temporary exhibitions.
Alec Coles, director of Tyne and Wear Museums said: "It has long been an ambition to lift the admission charge for the Hancock Museum but this has only now been made possible because of the Great North Museum project."
The free admission will continue until the museum closes in spring 2006 while the collections are temporarily rehoused and the building is restored and redeveloped. The �25.75m museum will open in 2009.
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