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Yorkshire Museums


Museums

Pickering, North Yorkshire

 

Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life preserves and records the heritage, history and culture of life in the Pickering and District area.

Email

01751 473653

Beck Isle Museum

Haworth, West Yorkshire

 

Welcome to the Bronte Parsonage Museum and Bronte Society. The museum has information about the lives and novels of the Bronte family.

Email

01535 642323

Bronte Parsonage Museum

Whitby, North Yorkshire

 

17th Century house which belonged to Cook's master, the ship owner Captain John Walker where the young Cook and his fellow apprentices lodged, is still preserved. The house is now a museum celebrating Cook's nine years in Whitby and his later career.

Email

01947 601900

Captain Cook Memorial Museum

Malton, North Yorkshire

 

We first opened to the public in 1987 and have since, with the help and support of our visitors, grown into one of the largest and most comprehensive museums covering British military and social history from 1914 onwards

Email

01653 697777

Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum

Halifax, West Yorkshire

 

Everything at Eureka! has been designed to inspire children to find out about themselves and the world around them through 100s of hands-on exhibits.

Email

01422 330069

Eureka Children's Museum

Hawes, North Yorkshire

 

Gayle Mill tells a unique story of survival against all the odds, as it reinvented itself time and time again and was rescued from total dereliction.

Email

01969 667320

Gayle Mill

Richmond, North Yorkshire

 

The Green Howards' Museum is situated in Richmond in North Yorkshire, at the heart of the Regiment?s recruiting area. The Museum tells the story of the illustrious Green Howards Regiment from its very beginnings to the present day.

Email

01748 826561

Green Howards Museum

York, North Yorkshire

 

Journey back to Viking-age York. Faithfully recreated following twenty years of archaeological research. Special exhibitions complete the experience.

Email

01904 615505

Jorvik Viking Centre

Wakefield, West Yorkshire

 

The National Coal Mining Museum for England is located at Caphouse Colliery, on the western edge of the Yorkshire coalfield, where mining has been carried out for centuries.

Email

01924 848806

National Coal Mining Museum for England

Bradford, West Yorkshire

 

The Museum exists to promote appreciation and understanding of the media. It does this by holding collections, making use of those collections in permanent galleries and in a public programme of exhibitions, events, festivals and learning and study activities.

Email

0844 856 3797

National Media Museum

York, North Yorkshire

 

The National Railway Museum in York and Shildon is home to the UK's national rail collection. Includes museum visitor info, events, exhibitions and collections

Email

08448 153139

National Railway Museum

Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire

 

Situated in the picturesque town of Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, this fascinating and friendly museum is housed in the former workhouse and is situated opposite St Cuthbert's Parish Church. Its 11 rooms illustrate the rural life of Nidderdale in the recent and more distant past.

Email

01423 711225

Nidderdale Museum

York, North Yorkshire

 

Perhaps one of York's best kept secrets is this fascinating Museum situated in York's tallest and most impressive Medieval Gatehouse - Monk Bar.

Email

01904 634191

Richard III Museum

Leeds, West Yorkshire

 

The Royal Armouries is home to the United Kingdom?s national collection of arms and armour, including artillery. As a museum we have a duty of care for these objects, to keep them, study them and increase our knowledge of them, so that this can be passed to future generations along with the objects themselves.

Email

01132 201999

Royal Armouries Museum

Leeds, West Yorkshire

 

Visit the award-winning Thackray Museum and discover the story of medicine, from the slums of Victorian Leeds to the technologies of the future

Email

01132 444343

Thackray Medical Museum

Keighley, West Yorkshire

 

The Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT) is a volunteer body, based on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. It was formed in 1965 by a group of volunteers whose interest was in wooden bodied carriages.

Email

01535 680425

Vintage Carriages Trust

York, North Yorkshire

 

Experience life as a Victorian. Walk down cobbled streets and peer through the windows of shops long gone. Take a journey through six hundred years of everyday life. Welcome to the award winning York Castle Museum.

01904 687687

York Castle Museum

York, North Yorkshire

 

The Yorkshire Air Museum is the largest independent air museum in Britain and is also the location of The Allied Air Forces Memorial.

Email

01904 608595

Yorkshire Air Museum

York, North Yorkshire

 

Walk in the footsteps of Romans. See beasts turned to stone and discover a land pillaged by Vikings. Journey back over 1,000 years. Welcome to the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens, one of England's first and finest.

01904 687687

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