South Shields Museum & Art Gallery

Explore the amazingly vast history of South Tyneside, come face to face with exotic snakes, spiders and lizards and admire fantastic works of art at South Shields Museum & Art Gallery.

The fascinating Tales of South Tyneside and Changing Faces galleries delve into the millennia of history that surrounds South Tyneside including Victorian life, World War II and seaside holidays in the past.

Creature Corner brings the wider world to South Shields Museum by housing a variety of spiders and reptiles, including Mick the Burmese python while the first floor Art Adventure gallery exhibits an array of artworks with a number of interactive displays.