List of museums in the East Riding of Yorkshire facts for kids
This list of museums in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
Museums
| Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arctic Corsair |  |
Hull | East Riding | Maritime | Deep sea trawler museum ship |
| Bayle Museum |  |
Bridlington | East Riding | Local | website, local history, located in the former gatehouse to the Bridlington Priory |
| Beverley Guildhall |  |
Beverley | East Riding | History | website, historic guildhall with medieval to 18th century rooms, furnishings, display of ceremonial silver and pewter, local history exhibits |
| Bondville Model Village |  |
Sewerby | East Riding | History | information, over 200 miniature buildings on a 1-acre site |
| Breighton Aerodrome |  |
Breighton | East Riding | Aviation | website, classic aircraft collection of the Real Aeroplane Company and the Real Aeroplane Club, open for members, located at RAF Breighton |
| Bridlington Harbour Heritage Museum | Bridlington | East Riding | Maritime | information, 1912 traditional sailing coble, local maritime artifacts | |
| Burton Agnes Hall |  |
Burton Agnes | East Riding | Historic house | Elizabethan manor house with French impressionist paintings, contemporary furniture, tapestries and other modern artwork, gardens, also Norman Manor House operated by English Heritage |
| Burton Constable Hall |  |
Skirlaugh | East Riding | Historic house | Elizabethan country house with 18th- and 19th-century interiors, fine furniture, paintings and sculpture, and an 18th-century ‘cabinet of curiosities' which contains fossils, natural history specimens and scientific instruments |
| Dinostar | Hull | East Riding | Natural history | website, dinosaur recreations, fossils | |
| Ferens Art Gallery |  |
Hull | East Riding | Art | Municipal art gallery |
| Flamborough Head Lighthouse |  |
Flamborough | East Riding | Maritime | Lighthouse museum |
| Fort Paull |  |
Paull | East Riding | Military | Mid 19th century gun battery |
| Goole Museum | Goole | East Riding | Multiple | website, local history, art, located on the first floor of the Goole Library | |
| Hands on History Museum |  |
Hull | East Riding | Local | website, local history, Egyptian gallery, located in the former Hull Grammar School |
| Hedon Museum | Hedon | East Riding | Local | website, local history, household items, community art gallery | |
| Holderness museums | Holderness | East Riding | Local | local oral history | |
| Hornsea Museum |  |
Hornsea | East Riding | Multiple | Period rooms of a farmhouse, Hornsea Pottery, photographs, tools, household and agricultural devices, Victorian street scene of shops, schoolrooms, local industry and history |
| Hull and East Riding Museum |  |
Hull | East Riding | Archaeology | website, artifacts and recreations of Iron Age, Roman and Viking life |
| Hull Maritime Museum |  |
Hull | East Riding | Maritime | Arctic whaling, maritime trade, fishing industry |
| Humber Car Museum (Allan Marshall) | Hull | East Riding | Automobile | Collection of Humber cars, closing 2018 | |
| RAF Holmpton |  |
Holmpton | East Riding | Military | Cold War-era underground nuclear bunker and radar operations centre |
| Sewerby Hall |  |
Sewerby | East Riding | Multiple | Early 18th-century house with period rooms, local history and art exhibits, gardens |
| Skidby Windmill |  |
Skidby | East Riding | Multiple | 19th century windmill, houses the Museum of East Riding Rural Life with displays of agriculture, trades and rural household artifacts |
| Sledmere House |  |
Sledmere | East Riding | Historic house | Georgian country house with Chippendale, Sheraton and French furnishings, fine pictures, military museum about the First World War wagon reserves, gardens, set within a park designed by Capability Brown |
| Southburn Archaeological Museum | Southburn | East Riding | Archaeology | website, Roman British artifacts | |
| Spurn Lightship |  |
Hull | East Riding | Maritime | Lightvessel museum ship |
| Stewart's Burnby Hall Gardens and Museum |  |
Pocklington | East Riding | Multiple | Includes the United Kingdom's national collection of hardy water lilies, collection of hunting trophies and travel memorabilia |
| Streetlife Museum of Transport |  |
Hull | East Riding | Transport | Antique cars, horse-drawn carriages and objects relating to local public transport |
| Treasure House |  |
Beverley | East Riding | Multiple | Includes the Beverley Art Gallery, local history displays, library and archive |
| Wilberforce House |  |
Hull | East Riding | Historic house | Home and life of abolitionist William Wilberforce |
| Withernsea Lighthouse Museum |  |
Withernsea | East Riding | Local | Former lighthouse with local history exhibits |
Defunct museums
- Beside the Seaside Museum, Bridlington, seeking new location
- Museum of Army Transport, Beverley
- Old Penny Memories, Bridlington
- Yorkshire Waterways Museum, Goole
See also
- Tourist attractions in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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