{"product_id":"museumbook","title":"Sunderland Museum – The People’s Palace in the Park","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrand New\u003c\/strong\u003e - revised and extended Second Edition published to celebrate 180 years of Sunderland Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003eSunderland Museum, one of the city’s grandest buildings, has stood in Mowbray Park since 1879. It is, however, only the latest in a line of buildings that have housed the Museum in a tradition going back to 1810.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003eWhen the pioneering Sunderland Corporation took ownership in 1846 it became the first local authority museum in the country outside of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003eThis book tells this story, including…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e‘Free Born’ John’s boots and a fossil fish from Pallion…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ethe curator who reported police for not saluting…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ethe beautiful Winter Gardens, their destruction by bombs, and their rebuilding in the new millennium…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ea far-sighted Corporation, the first in the country to run a museum…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ethe janitor’s wife and her two daughters who saved the building from burning down…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ea well-known, but mythical, tale of a Walrus and Carpenter…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e         \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eand more, on buildings, displays and exhibits, curators and janitors, tales of the past and plans for the future…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt; 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