The former servants' quarters at the rear of the building were turned into a heritage gallery.
A big selling point for tourism in the UK is our rich history, made into a tourist draw by museums, heritage attractions, galleries and the like.
Their La Jolla, California gallery is soon staging a 30th anniversary Exhibition of their international artists, including Botero, who shares a Basque heritage with Gallery owner Jose M. Tasende.
There is the one sold in the tourist brochures, a place of coral gardens and dolphins, of alligators and teeming swamps, heritage trails and gallery-hopping.
There will also be special access to unique spaces including Rimbun Dahan - set a few miles outside the city in a world of its own, where visitors can explore its gallery, heritage houses, contemporary main house and herb garden - and Shalini Ganendra Fine Art's award winning, green space, Gallery Residence, twice nominated for the Aga Khan Architecture Award.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) manages nine museums, galleries and heritage sites across the north-east.
In comparison, the proportion of adults visiting heritage sites, museums and galleries increased over the decade.
We didn't shy away from investing in Britain's museums, galleries and heritage sites, but we always knew that this was only one half of the equation.
As part of the UK's largest after-hours cultural festival, more than 500 museums, galleries and heritage sites across the country are turning nocturnal this weekend, inviting the public to experience their collections and history after dark.
One of the largest museum clusters taking part in the festival is in and around Newcastle and Gateshead, where on Saturday night buses will be put on to carry the tens of thousands of visitors round 60 different museums, galleries and heritage sites – from Hadrian's Wall to the Biscuit Factory – offering what one organiser, Bill Griffiths, described as a "late-night cultural tapas".
Hundreds of museums, art galleries and heritage sites are affected.
