Museums & Art Galleries East Yorkshire

Ferens Childrens Art Gallery - Hull
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Ferens Childrens Art Gallery - Hull
Admission to the Ferens Art Gallery, including the Children's Gallery, is free. It has a magnificent collection of paintings and sculptures and you can enjoy refreshments in the popular café, La Loggia. It’s a great place for children to show their creativity, with our family resource packs which keep everyone entertained.
Streetlife - Hull Museum of Transport
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Streetlife - Hull Museum of Transport
Climb aboard at Streetlife Museum of Transport with all the sights, sounds and smells of the past. Admission to the Streetlife Museum is free. Experience 200 years of transport history as you walk down a 1940’s high street, board a tram or enjoy the pleasures of a carriage ride.
Arctic Corsair - Hull
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Arctic Corsair - Hull
Come aboard Hull’s last sidewinder trawler the Arctic Corsair and let the crew take you on a guided tour (access is limited).
Hull and East Riding Museum
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Hull and East Riding Museum
Enter a world where 235 million years of history is brought to life. From majestic mammoths to Saxon invaders, visitors to the Hull and East Riding museum of archaeology can look forward to an experience that is unique, educational and fun. Admission:2015 Prices: Free!   Opening Times: 2015 Opening Details: Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm ...
Hornsea Museum
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Hornsea Museum
Hornsea Museum was established in 1978.  Sited in an 18th Century farmhouse and the two adjacent cottages, it is a registered charity (No. 509615) staffed mainly by volunteers. Over the years Hornsea Museum has won numerous national awards and has been featured on television several times. The museum is not a relic but a living...
Yorkshire Air Museum
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Yorkshire Air Museum
T he Yorkshire Air Museum is the largest independent air museum in Britain and is also the location of  The Allied Air Forces Memorial.  Situated in a 20 acre parkland on the former World War II RAF Bomber Command Station at Elvington near the City of York, it is the largest and most original WWII station open to...
The Bayle Museum
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The Bayle Museum
The Museum was founded in 1928. Today the Bayle is a Grade I Listed Building and Scheduled Ancient Monument, which makes it of great interest historically and architecturally. The museum has varied collections including: local social history, Green Howards Military History, agricultural objects, photographs, Medieval manuscripts and much more. ...
John Bull World of Rock
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John Bull World of Rock
John Bull's World of Rock, located at Carnaby near Bridlington in the North East of England, is a unique family experience. A real factory tour of a sweet factory. During your tour you will: Hear about the history of John Bull, the area’s premier confectioners Touch and experience the manufacturing process for yourself, as you make your...
Old Penny Memories
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Old Penny Memories
Old Penny Memories is one of the biggest collection of antique slot machines in England. Visitors to the museum can actually play the slot machines with the exchange of their money into old pennies. Admission is free, so you only pay if you play. Those visitors who are just wanting to look around are welcome to. The collection of machines and...
Real Aeroplane Company
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Real Aeroplane Company
Breighton Airfield, a former Second World War heavy bomber base and cold-war nuclear missile launch site, is now home to the classic aircraft collection of the Real Aeroplane Company and the Real Aeroplane Club, an active flying club whose members own and operate many unusual, classic and ex-military aircraft. The Real Aeroplane Company aircraft...
Yorkshire Museum of Farming
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Yorkshire Museum of Farming
Welcome to the Yorkshire Museum of Farming, a thriving 16 acre site with events and activities throughout the year. Based at Murton Park just outside York this is also your gateway to the Danelaw Centre for Living History.
Eden Camp
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Eden Camp
A visit to our unique Museum at EDEN CAMP will transport you back in time to wartime Britain. You will experience the sights, sounds, even the smells of those dangerous years. This is no ordinary Museum - Not another Military Museum - Not a glass showcase Museum - We have reconstructed scenes using movement, lighting, sound, smells, even smoke...
20-21 Visual Arts Centre
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20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Housed in what was once St John’s Church, Scunthorpe, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre hosts five gallery spaces showing the finest in contemporary art and craft all year-round. As well as a first-rate cafe and gallery shop, 20-21 offers daily creative activities for families, including our "activity table" and a range of annual fundays....
North Lincolnshire Museum
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North Lincolnshire Museum
Our school holiday events and activities Term time - our events and activities Event and activity listing Admission: Free!    Opening Times:  Monday to Saturday: 10am to 4pm Sunday: 1pm to 4pm Artyfact Activities take place from 10.30am to 3.30pm during  Saturdays and Bank Holidays and 1.30pm to 3.30pm on...
Filey Museum
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Filey Museum
Filey Museum is in Queen Street, in the old part of the town, away from the shopping areas and near to the 12th century St Oswald’s Church.  The museum buildings themselves date from the 17th century, one having been a fisherman’s cottage and the other a farm cottage.  The buildings were saved from demolition in the late...
Yorkshire Museum
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Yorkshire Museum
The Yorkshire Museum is home to some of Britain's finest archaeological treasures and the history of England until 1550 can be traced through its galleries. It also specialises in geology and biology and its rocks, fossils, animal and plant materials are often used in our special exhibitions.   The Roman Gallery Many of the...
York Pass
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York Pass
See the best of York with this mega-value sightseeing pass What's included Free entry to attractions, museums and tours in York City and the York area (only with the York and Beyond Pass) Free access to the Hop-on Hop-off City Sightseeing buses of York for 1 day (operates only April - October) Free guidebook with helpful information and maps ...
Jorvik Viking Centre
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Jorvik Viking Centre
Explore Viking history on the very site where archaeologists discovered the remains of the Viking city of Jorvik. Meet resident Vikings (staff), and see 800 of the items found during the dig. You can even journey back to a reconstruction of York in the year AD 975, complete with the sights, sounds and smells of the Viking-Age.
York Dungeon
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York Dungeon
Take a trip into the past and discover Europe's darkest moments. Blood-curdling screams, groans and clashes of steel ring through the York Dungeon. Investigate if you dare! Dick Turpin Discover the true story behind the world's most famous highwayman, Dick Turpin, at The York Dungeon. Find out why the infamy of this daring criminal has lasted...
York Castle Museum
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York Castle Museum
York Castle Museum is one of Britain's leading museums of everyday life. It shows how people used to live by displaying thousands of household objects and by recreating rooms, shops, streets - and even prison cells. Kirkgate: It is best known for its recreated Victorian street, Kirkgate, which combines real shop fittings and stock with...
Viking Walk
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Viking Walk
The York Viking Walk is a fascinating tour of Viking York. Time travel back to the 9th century and see where the Vikings fought to take the city in a bloody battle in 867. Find out how the Vikings' cunning and ferocity overcame the resistance of the Saxon kings who desperately defended the city! You will also see where the Vikings lived and worked...
DIG
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DIG
DIG is a hands-on archaeological adventure giving kids the chance to become trainee ‘diggers’ and discover the most exciting artefacts from 2000 years of York’s history! With four special in-door excavation pits, all based on real-life digs in the city and filled with replica Roman, Viking, medieval and Victorian finds, children...
Barley Hall
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Barley Hall
Barley Hall is a stunning medieval house, once home to the Priors of Nostell and the Mayor of York. Until the 1980s the house was hidden under the relatively modern facade of a derelict office block. Only when the building was going to be destroyed was the amazing medieval building discovered and its history uncovered.
National Railway Museum
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National Railway Museum
Welcome! The National Railway Museum in York, England, is the largest railway museum in the world, responsible for the conservation and interpretation of the British national collection of historically significant railway vehicles and other artefacts. The Museum contains an unrivalled collection of locomotives, rolling stock, railway equipment,...
RAF Holmpton Bunker Tours
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RAF Holmpton Bunker Tours
Behind the Massive Blast Doors, the vast Nuclear Bunker extends almost 100ft below ground and covers nearly 35,000 square feet.
Withernsea Lighthouse Museum
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Withernsea Lighthouse Museum
Withernsea’s Lighthouse is one of only a handful of lighthouses built inland, standing 127 feet (38m) high in the middle of the seaside town. The base of the lighthouse features RNLI and HM Coastguard exhibits, displays and old photographs. There is also a local history room with photo’s documents and models from...
The Scarborough Fair Collection
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The Scarborough Fair Collection
The Scarborough Fair Collection hosts a magnificent working collection of Vintage Cars, Steam Engines, Vintage Fairground Rides and Mechanical Organs topped off with a 'Mighty' Wurlitzer Organ in our spacious ballroom. Set in the scenic grounds of the Flower of May Holiday Park on the coast road between Scarborough and Filey. When Graham...
The Trolleybus Museum
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The Trolleybus Museum
The Trolleybus Museum is the world's largest collection of preserved trolleybuses, alongside other vehicles and artefacts from the same era like trams, tractors and motorbuses. Ideal staring fare for your little rev head!  It bears mentioning that the opening days to the public are pretty limited, but equally when they are open they make an...
Time Trap Museum
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Time Trap Museum
Time Trap museum at Grimsby Town Hall Discover this surprising attraction within the former police cells of Grimsby Town Hall, it will take you on a time travel journey to uncover the town’s colourful past. As you pass through dark, twisting corridors you will be able to explore mysterious nooks and crannies and make your way up and down...
National Fishing Heritage Centre
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National Fishing Heritage Centre
More than just a museum! A fascinating insight into Grimsby's Maritime history - Our heritage . Navigate your way around Grimsby's Fishing Heritage Centre and discover what life was like for trawlermen in the 1950s. Experience the sights, sound and smells of the times that follow visitors through the interactive displays.
Ryedale Folk Museum
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Ryedale Folk Museum
Welcome to the Ryedale Folk Museum’s website. Hopefully you’ll find everything you need to plan a visit, or to reflect upon your time with us. We have special events planned throughout the year, but wonderful things crop up all the time, so take a look at our news page as well to find out what’s going on! If you have any...
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