Can you help our Museum put Coronation in the picture?

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens (SMWG) wants your help in capturing a unique moment in British history.

This weekend sees the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, and SMWG is planning an online Collecting the Coronation exhibition to show how Sunderland marked the momentous occasion.

Are you decorating your house? Are you planning to attend a street party? Are you attending a special celebratory event or dressing for the occasion? Will you be watching Saturday's Coronation with family or friends? Or will you be avoiding the whole thing?

SMWG wants your photographs to record what we all were doing over this coming Coronation Weekend - or what we were doing to avoid it.

Images selected will form the Collecting the Coronation exhibition to be hosted on SMWG's website later this year.

Jo Cunningham, Exhibitions, Collections and Archives Manager at SMWG, said: "We're really hoping to capture this moment in history and build up a great collection of images to show how Sunderland people chose to celebrate the royal occasion. Once the images come into the Museum's collection they will be available for future generations to reflect upon and remember."

Wearsiders are invited to send in up to ten photographs to show what they were doing over the Coronation weekend - from Friday, May 5 to Monday, May 8.

Closing date for Collecting the Coronation images is Wednesday, May 31 and any pictures of any form of celebration (or not) are welcome - but photographers must be over the age of 18.

Fore more information on how to submit your images, go to https://sunderlandculture.org.uk/collecting-the-coronation/