Tracing site: relocating the museum from Wood St to Honeysuckle

Tracing Site is a vehicle for understanding and picturing change, the closure of one site and the creation of a new one. The objects and exhibitions have been moved on, the old buildings are left to start a new life under different ownership. The artists become the medium through which individuals and groups have expressed their feelings and concerns for an enterprise that promised so much but was eventually abandoned in favour of a new and different model. It was perhaps fitting that there was a link created between the Museum, the closure of the steelworks and the University. Newcastle Steelworks was once the largest employer in the region, that mantle has now passed to the University. The end of steel-making brought the financial possibility of change for the museum and the university, both sharing in the BHP Legacy. Tracing Site is an academic research exercise that attempts to capture the emotions of community unease and attempts to keep up with the inevitable nature of change which rules our times.