North East Land, Sea and Air Museums
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The Official Facebook Page of The North East Land, Sea and Air Museums, a volunteer run museum situated just off the A19 next to the Nissan plant, home to Avro Vulcan B.2 XL319 Admission Charges:
Adults : £5.00
Children 5-16 : £3.00
Concessions : £3.00
Family ticket (2 adults with two children) : £13.00
Under 5's free
The North East Land, Sea and Air Museums (NELSAM), is an entirely volunteer-run transport museum situated on the site of the former RAF Usworth/Sunderland Airport, between Washington and Sunderland, England.
The museum has the largest aviation collection between Yorkshire and Scotland and houses over 30 aircraft and a wide collection of aero engines, as well as the Military Vehicle Museum, formerly based in Newcastle upon Tyne, which holds a collection of WW2 and post war vehicles.
The museum also has a collection of other items such as weaponry, military vehicles, trams & buses, and other historical exhibits. A collection of fire appliances was added to the collection and the North East Electric Transport Trust have been working on preparing their collection of trams ready to open this year.
Special exhibitions cover the WW2 Blitz and 607 County of Durham Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force formed at RAF Usworth.
For 2017, a new WW1 Display will be unveiled.
School and group visits can be arranged, please contact for further details.
NELSAM is a registered charity number 1150286
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facebook.comAs you can see Stu-Arts 747 has now been delivered to site and laid out on the ground in four sections. It looks very impressive. As it’s a bit of a mess inside, and there are parts where the floor is not properly supported, can I ask that volunteers and public stay out of the aircraft please until it is safe to do so. Thank you.
Coming soon...
The Faithful Durhams are campaigning to have the DLI collection all back under one roof - any help towards this campaign would be greatly appreciated. Follow the link below for more information & to donate towards this cause.
The museum has plans for a children's play area for visitors to enjoy, and we've set up a project page as part of the Aviva Community Fund, where projects in the local community are voted on by the public to decide which should receive funding. We'd really appreciate it if you could vote for us by using the link below & signing up - it's free and only takes a few clicks!
Thinking of coming for the special evening we're hosting for Halloween with The Experimental Diner ? Book online at http://theexperimentaldiner.co.uk/public-events/ using the below code to save £10!
Not long until we welcome diners into one of the hangers for a very special meal!
As the good weather draws to a close, it's time to push on with the restoration of our Avro Vulcan XL319, there's still plenty of work to be done to get her ready for the 35 years with the museum celebration next year - our funding page is still open to help us reach the target, donations of any size all welcome!
For the third time this year we have had television filming at NELSAM. Last week Flame TV interviewed a local historian for the BBC’s “Heir Hunters” programme using Hanger 1 and the Ridley Morraine as a backdrop. The topics covered in the interview included the Newcastle Aero Club and one of its members Major Staley Packman who was killed in a flying accident in 1926. The programme will be aired sometime next year. Previous filming includes George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces, due to air soon, and BBC’s CBeebes, to be shown in early 2018.
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