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The gallery has set up an online appeal for \u00a360,000, which raised more than \u00a310,000 in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Bryan Dixon, the co-director of AmberSide which runs it, said the reaction had been “phenomenal” and the donations would give them “space” to explore further funding options. <\/p>\n
“The emotion in that response, how people feel about the place, has given us real energy to take this forward,” he said.<\/p>\n
People answering the gallery’s plea on Twitter said it was “one of the best bits” of Newcastle.<\/p>\n
The city’s Discovery Museum called it, external<\/span><\/a> “an intrinsic part of Tyneside’s cultural landscape”. <\/p>\n