3 Best Places To Visit in Sunderland, UK

Beautiful place to walk through and explore. I had an iced latte at the cafe and walked along the river. There is plenty of seating in the cafe and outside. The displays are breathtaking, as is the glass blowing demonstration. The center is free. The front desk helped me get a taxi when it started raining, the lady was lovely.

Leaving aside the brutal architecture of the entrance the rest of the building has much to offer. Lovely, well maintained building with great displays of glass. Very informative and impressive. The cafe offers a clean friendly service with great views of the R. Wear. Free admission and absolutely well worth a visit.

Excellent place to visit. My little boy (Age 5) was asking how you curve glass so brought him to here & watched the demo on making a glass vase. He loved it and there was lots of other things for him to do here like jigsaws, drawing, playing with blocks. Great place for learning and having fun.

We arrived early morning during the week on a beautiful sunny day. The gentleman behind the till was really lovely and made a huge fuss of our two greyhounds, which meant a lot to us. Inside there was lots of different makes & models of aeroplanes, lots of information and history, with a lot to look at. The utmost care has gone into the restoration of different vehicles, aeroplanes and all other artefacts. We really enjoyed sitting in the cockpit and we were so happy with the museum being completely 100% dog friendly. We definitely would visit again if in the area on holiday again. We enjoyed a coffee in the open picnic area as you walk in and the parking & other facilities were very good.

Great place loved the staff so kind and helpful and happy to talk about the history. There was a wonderful selection of aircraft and cars. The outdoor aircraft were in a far better condition than the national Air museums aircraft, which look like the aircraft came from a scrap yard. Also, a nice little section to remember those lost in combat missions. Would highly recommend it (the gift shop was nice).

Had a lovely walk around the museum nice friendly welcome lots to see. Very impressed with displays & exhibits definatley well worth a visit just outside Newcastle will be going back lots of great aircraft to see and many interesting items not just aircraft.