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  • The Great North Museum: Hancock is a museum of natural history and ancient civilisations in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  • The Great North Museum: Hancock was founded during the height of the British Empire.
  • A rare spirit preserved coelacanth specimen (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth), over 1 m long and one of the Great North Museum: Hancock’s natural history...
  • The museum reopened as the Great North Museum: Hancock in May 2009 following a major extension and refurbishment of the original Victorian building.
  • On the second floor of the Great North Museum: Hancock is a Library which is open to the public and houses three collections...
  • Further information The Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle is open daily (Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 11am-4pm).
  • The Great North Museum incorporates collections from the Hancock Museum and Newcastle University’s Museum of Antiquities...
  • The Great North Museum: Hancock is home to the collections of the Shefton Museum of Greek Art and Archaeology.
  • The origins of the Hancock Museum's collections can be drawn back to about 1780 when Marmaduke Tunstall began collecting ethnographic and natural history...