{"id":8120,"date":"2020-09-11T03:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8120"},"modified":"2020-09-11T03:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:01:31","slug":"museum-offers-more-to-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/11\/museum-offers-more-to-discover\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum offers more to discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle Museum is expanding its services and preparing for two new exhibitions after a period of reduced offerings due to COVID-19.<br \/>\nFrom Friday 25 September,\u00a0Museum visitors will be required to\u00a0use a smart phone to\u00a0scan in via a QR code\u00a0to\u00a0provide their contact details for contact tracing purposes.<br \/>\nNot only will smart phones assist with keeping the community safe, people can experience the interactive attractions brought to life through their phones.<br \/>\nAs with all of City of Newcastle\u2019s facilities, careful planning has gone in to being able to safely reintroduce staff and visitors into the Museum\u00a0space.<br \/>\nVisitors are asked to continue to practise social distancing, follow the floor markers and direction of\u00a0Museum\u00a0staff.<br \/>\nDue to safety reasons, the Museum&#8217;s interactive exhibitions Supernova,\u00a0Mininova\u00a0will remain closed for now and the BHP Gallery will close for refurbishment from September 25.<br \/>\nThe Museum is open from Tuesday to\u00a0Sunday\u00a0each week\u00a0and open on Mondays during NSW public and school holidays.\u00a0\u202fEntry is\u202ffree, with tickets\u00a0to\u00a0Questacon\u2019s Colour Exhibition\u00a0available online.<br \/>\nFrom\u00a026 September,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/fort-scratchley\/home\">Fort Scratchley<\/a>\u00a0will also be open to the public on both Saturday and Sunday.<br \/>\nA\u202fseries of Frequently Asked Questions\u202fare\u202favailable\u202fat\u00a0<a title=\"Visit the Newcastle Museum website in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/newcastlemuseum.com.au\/visit\/covid-19-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newcastlemuseum.com.au<\/a>\u00a0to assist\u202fthe community\u202fwith further information about the\u202fchanges they\u202fmay\u202fexperience\u202fduring\u202ftheir visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle Museum is expanding its services and preparing for two new exhibitions after a period of reduced offerings due to COVID-19. From Friday 25 September,\u00a0Museum visitors will be required to\u00a0use a smart phone to\u00a0scan in via a QR code\u00a0to\u00a0provide their contact details for contact tracing purposes. Not only will smart phones assist with keeping the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/11\/museum-offers-more-to-discover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Museum offers more to discover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}