In partnership with South Tyneside Council, welcome to The Lost & Found Office of Oddities

The Lost & Found Office of Oddities is responsible for the careful collection, cataloguing and investigation of unusual items found, donated or handed in over the years. Through a series of interactive appearances at public events and hands-on workshops in Family Hubs, we’re inviting children, families and visitors to help us examine strange objects, offer their theories, imagine where they came from and invent new stories, uses and explanations.

Blending creativity, performance, storytelling and invention, the project encourages people of all ages to look closely, think differently, share ideas and become investigators, inventors and accidental experts in the unexplained.