Steam to Green

Discovery Museum's new two year programme launching summer 2024

Steam to Green: The North East Energy Revolution

Steam to Green

Steam to Green will highlight the latest innovations in green renewable energy including ground-breaking research taking place in the North East. It will also showcase science and engineering objects from the museums’ historical collections, including some that have not been on display for many years. 

Created in partnership with Newcastle University and drawing on expertise from across the green energy sector, the exhibition will celebrate the region’s rich history of creativity and invention by connecting the old with the new and telling a compelling story of hope in the face of the climate crisis. 

There will be a two year exhibition with a whole programme of family events, school workshops, Museum Lates night events for adults and Career’s Fayre to  promote the careers available for people in the region.

How to get involved

  • Sponsorship: A partnership with us would place your brand 'front and centre' with our family audience, in the museum and online. If you're interested in sponsoring Steam to Green, contact nigel.alston-phillips@twmuseums.org.uk
  • Careers Fayre: If your business would like to showcase diverse career pathways in the green energy or green transport sector or you represent an educational establishment who would like to bring students to find out about careers, contact learning@discoverymuseum.org.uk
  • Loans or gifts to the museum: If you're in the energy sector and you have ground breaking or cutting edge technological objects or research that would help us tell the story of energy past, present and future, contact Kylea.little@twmuseums.org.uk or victoria.page@twmuseums.org.uk
  • Case studies – Are there people in your organisation who would be willing to share their personal stories to illustrate their career in the sector? Contact Kylea.little@twmuseums.org.uk or victoria.page@twmuseums.org.uk