Culture Awards Supporting Information

Managed by North East Museums on behalf of Newcastle University

Supporting information for Great North Museum - Dippy on Tour - Best Event Tyneside

Our results

Visitor figures

	Year to 7 October 2018	Year to 7 October 2019
In-person visits	449,319	523,975

Sales and donations

	Year to 7 October 2018	Year to 7 October 2019
Gross sales	£141,382	£268,799
Gross donations	£56,928	£82,862

Web traffic

	Year to 7 October 2018	Year to October 2019
Web sessions	182,931	275,484

80% new visitors, as illustrated below

Customer satisfaction

https://www.instagram.com/p/B29nZuan090/ "We started our day early & took a leisurely walk across the city to @gnm_hancock. I expected that it would be quiet and Babab would have a nice stroll around looking at the exhibition. How wrong was I!?! We arrived and it was packed with children of all ages running around. The energy was electric and Babab simply couldn't wait to get out of the pram. Not shy in new places, she led the way around and scoped out all the best bits! She screamed with pure joy, we couldn't have brought her to a better place! We went upstairs and found a sensory room called the afterlife - our little girl is already a raver and she was ecstatic running around after the older children copying what they did. It started to get a little rough so we took her out - she wailed.. we were party poopers in her eyes! We continued through the rest of the display till we reached the room where #dippyontour was. Stood towering over everyone it was amazing to see him again...also the first time as a family with #Fatherbee!! Score: 5/5 an amazing time for Babab. Well organised, lay out was great. Good facilities including spacious changing facilities for mums and dads! Pram friendly. Would very much recommend that you go - dippy there or not!