List of museums in the East Riding of Yorkshire

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

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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
Beside the Seaside Museum		Bridlington	East Riding	Local	website, local history of the seaside resort town
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
Bridlington Harbour Heritage Museum		Bridlington	East Riding	Maritime	website, 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 & Art Gallery		Goole	East Riding	Multiple	website, local history, art
Hands on History Museum		Hull	East Riding	Local	website, local history, Egyptian gallery
Hedon Museum		Hedon	East Riding	Local	website, local history, household items
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
Marshall's Humber Car Museum		Hull	East Riding	Automobile	website, collection of Humber cars
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 World War I 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)		Beverley	East Riding	Multiple	website, 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
Yorkshire Waterways Museum		Goole	East Riding	Maritime	website, includes restored museum ships of Tom Puddings, local shipbuilding industry, port and canal history

Defunct museums

• Museum of Army Transport, Beverley
• Old Penny Memories,^[1] Bridlington

See also

• Visitor attractions in the East Riding of Yorkshire

References

1. ^ http://www.oldpennymemories.co.uk/ Closed, may reopen in 2011

• Real Yorkshire: Museums in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire