Cross shaft fragment of the Wycliffe Cross, c.8th century

Johnson's Motorcycle, 1901

'The Song of the Shirt' by Albert Rutherston, 1902

Cotton Queen Dress, 1930

Horrockses Fashions dress worn by Mavis Bimson, 1948-9

Rothbury Shrovetide Football, c.late 19th century

Annfield Plain Co-operative Society Building, 1874

Lighthouse Tower, 1871

Bed Spread, ‘All You Need is Love’, 1969

St. Christopher Statue c.14th century

Hattersley Loom c.19th century

'The Half-Timer' by Patti Mayor, 1906-8

Peppered Moth c.1800s

Grace Darling's Coble, c. 1828

'The Old Town Hall and St Hilda’s Church, Middlesbrough' by LS Lowry, 1959

'Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway' by John Dobbin, 1871

'Giants Refreshed – Pacifics in the Doncaster Locomotive Works' by Terence Cuneo, 1947

Calf Mould, c.8th century

Northumberland Small Pipes c.1805

'Nature Painting' by Keith Tyson, 2008

Doncaster Gold Cup, 1779

Emily Brontë's Writing Desk, c.1830s-1840s

Carlisle Spedding's Steel Mill, c.1800s

J. D. Carr’s Waistcoat c.1840s

Painted Fabrics Butterfly Costume, c.1920-1930

Turbinia, 1894

The Musical Stones of Skiddaw, 1840

'Love You More' by Buzzcocks -Single Record Sleeve, 1978

'St. Cuthbert of Farne' by Fenwick Lawson, 1984

Bessemer Covertor, 1934

The School for the Blind, Hardman Street, Liverpool, Application Form, 1918

Blackett Hutton Rotary Drilling Machine c.1885

Piano Belonging to Delius c.19th century

Rhubarb Splitting Tool, 2009

‘Peace’, Mounted crane and piece of rubble from Hiroshima, with a thousand origami Cranes, 2011

Roman Windowhead, 163AD

Iron Age Chariot Burial c.200 BC

Studio Glass by Keith Cummings, 2010

Pride by David Mellor, 1958

Cloisonné Vase Lamp, 1880

Billy- Early Locomotive, 1816

Architect’s Desk, Gillows of Lancaster, c.1795

Banner of Oldham Society of Women's Suffrage, c.1912

John Walker’s Apothecary Scales c.early 19th century

Model of Bermuda Floating Dock, 1901

Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule c.1800

'Memorial to Men of Steel' by Aikaterini Gegisian, 2016

Skelmanthorpe Flag, 1819

PSS Wingfield Castle, 1934

Astral Navigations- Holyground Records, 1971

Blackpool Illuminations Switch-on Switch c.1930s

Shepherd's Plaid, c.1950

Five Neolithic Roughout Axes, c.4500-2000 BC

Angel of the North Maquette, 1997

'The Merz Barn Wall' by Kurt Schwitters 1947-48

Pilkington’s Lancastrian Tile and Pottery Company Vase by Jessie Jones, 1907

Liquorice Stamp, 1860-1890

Sans Pareil, 1829

Starvationer, c.1880s

Nissan Bluebird, 1986

The FA Cup, 1896

Bloss, the 1st Airdale Terrier, 1887

North East Coast Exhibition Plate, 1929

Hexham Tans, c.early-mid 19th century

Dick, Kerr’s Ladies FC’s Victory Pennants, 1937

Beasley’s D2 type-specimen, c. 240,000,000 years old.

Anne Lister's Travel Case, c.1820s

Salt's Pattern Book, 1853

Hyde Chartist Bell, 1848

'Silver Moonlight' by Atkinson Grimshaw, 1880

Siege Coin, 1648

Liverpool Overhead Railway Motor Coach No.3, 1892

The Quintet, 1898-1911

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal, 1800-1803

The Middleham Jewel c.15th century

'Portrait of Edward Carpenter' by Thomas Binney Gibbs, 1911

'Invention of the lifeboat, Willie Wouldhave, South Shields, 1789' by Ralph Hedley, 1896

'Iron and Coal' by William Bell Scott, 1861

'The Struggle With the Quarry' by John Hancock, 1851

Bar of Sunlight Soap, 1889