Tyne & Wear Archive & Museums

Regional museum, art gallery and archives service managing nine venues across Tyneside and the Archives for Tyne and Wear.

‘Live Well’ is Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums culture and heritage programme of inspiring activities and experiences promoting health and well being for people aged over 50 who don’t usually engage with museums and galleries.The project, through six sessions, promotes social interaction and learning, encouraging friendship and long term cultural engagement for the participants.

Activities include:

1. Visits to the nine TWAM museums across the four Tyneside areas including exhibition and behind the scene tours.
2. Outreach to communities and participant locations bringing objects from the collections to them.
3. Sessions led by Live Well staff, TWAM staff and freelancers looking at the TWAM collections.
4. Creative sessions to develop and improve skills building and exchange.
5. Opportunity to develop personal and group research and knowledge of TWAM collections and archives, led by the participants.
6. Opportunity to contribute to a creative collaborative outcome led by and for older people across the four Tyneside areas.

‘Live Well’ is fully funded, with no cost to participants and organisations, and would be interested in hearing from older people organisations and groups across South Tyneside who would be interested in developing creative and heritage projects.