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Museums long ago ceased to be stuffy rooms full of glass
cases containing bits of old pottery and fossilised
bones.
Today even most conventional museums including
displays which change but over recent years there has
been a growth in industrial and "living" museums.
Here
you can learn about local heritage, get a feel for how
people lived and worked, the hardships they endured.
Galleries listed include not just civic
galleries displaying publicly owned artworks, but also
privately owned galleries with items for sale.
Not all the
museums and galleries in the North York Moors area are listed.
Please provide details of any we have missed here.
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MALTON MUSEUM
Old Town Hall, Market Place, Malton, YO17 7LP
Tel: 01653 695136
Web:
www.maltonmuseum.co.uk
Visit this superb Market
Town Museum - one of the finest in North
Yorkshire. Renowned for its rich Roman
collection, the imaginative displays feature
items gathered from many years of local
excavation.
Temporary Exhibition - Wharran Percy -
Life in a Medieval Village. Groups welcome at
any time by arrangement.
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Beck Isle Museum of Rural
Life
Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 8DU
Tel: 01751 473653
E-mail:
info@beckislemuseum.co.uk
Web:
www.beckislemuseum.co.uk
Packed with collections from the Victorian Age,
with something of interest for all, includes
many typical shops of that era. Farm exhibits in
outbuildings.
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Captain Cook Schoolroom
Museum
101 High Street, Great Ayton,
North Yorkshire TS9 6NB
Tel: 01642 722030
E-mail:
contact@captaincookschoolroommuseum.co.uk
Web:
www.captaincookschoolroommuseum.co.uk
Originally the schoolroom where the young James
Cook began his education. Displays relate to
Cook's voyages and 18th century Great Ayton. The
museum is on the first floor of the building,
but there is a lift for the disabled. Peep-holes
and activities for younger children.
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SCARBOROUGH MUSEUMS &
GALLERIES
Scarborough Borough Council, Tourism & Leisure
Services, Town Hall, St.Nicholas Street, Scarborough, North Yorks,
YO11 2HG
Tel: 01723 232323
Fax: 01723 376941
Web:
www.scarboroughmuseums.org.uk
SCARBOROUGH MUSEUMS &
GALLERIES CONSISTS OF
The Rotunda Museum (Vernon Road, Scarborough,
North Yorks, YO11 2NN):
The museum displays
archaeological finds including the important
Mesolithic site at Star Carr, and 'Gristhorpe
Man'. Displays also explore the more recent
history of the town.
Wood End Museum (The Crescent, Scarborough,
North Yorks, YO11 2PW):
Once home to the
poet Edith Sitwell, is now Scarborough's museum
of Natural History. The displays introduce the
local wildlife, rocks and fossils of the
heritage coast and North York Moors National
Park.
Scarborough Art Gallery (The Crescent,
Scarborough, North Yorks, YO11 2PW):
An
Italianate villa built in the 1840s as part of
The Crescent, houses Scarborough's fine art
collection. Scarborough's Family Album is an
exciting hands-on display for families telling
the story of Scarborough, from fishing village
to fashionable resort through painters and
paintings. It includes costumes and masks to try
on and 'feely' painting to make. Visit the gift
shop for prints, cards, books and unusual gifts.
Opening Times: June to Sept, Tues-Sun 10am-5pm.
For October to May please telephone to confirm.
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Captain Cook Memorial
Museum
Grape Lane, Whitby, North Yorkshire YO22 4BA
Tel: 01947 601900
E-mail:
captcookmuseumwhitby@ukgateway.net
Web:
www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk
Sited in actual house where James Cook stayed
when serving his seaman's apprenticeship, the
museum contains many genuine Cook connections.
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Ryedale Folk Museum
Hutton le Hole, York, YO62 6UA
Tel: 01751 417367
E-mail:
enquiries@ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk
Web:
www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk
Famous throughout the country, this museum
houses a marvellous collection of reconstructed
buildings including cruck-framed long houses, a
mediaeval glass kiln, an early photographer's
studio, craft workshops and farm buildings.
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THE WORLD OF
JAMES HERRIOT
23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, N Yorks, YO7 1PL
Tel: 01845 524234
Fax: 01845 525333
E-mail:
wojhemails@hambleton.gov.uk
Web:
www.worldofjamesherriot.org
Soak up the atmosphere of our most famous
country vet and his world. Situated in the
actual ''Skeldale House'' at number 23 Kirkgate,
Thirsk.
For further details see our website.
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Robin Hood's Bay Museum
Fisherhead, Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, YO22 4TQ
Open summer months.
A local trust runs this small museum with
exhibits on local geology, shipping, fishing and
local history.
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Tom Leonard Mining Museum
Deepdale, Skinningrove, Cleveland, TS13 4AP
Tel: 01287 642877
E-mail:
visits@ironstonemuseum.co.uk
Web:
www.ironstonemuseum.co.uk
Sited at the former Loftus Ironstone Mines, the
museum contains many relics of the Cleveland
Ironstone industry including 'in situ'
machinery.
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SWALEDALE MUSEUM
The Green, Reeth, Nr Richmond, N Yorks, DL11
6QT
Tel: 01748 884118
E-mail:
museum@swaledale.org
Web:
www.swaledalemuseum.org
Opening
Times: The museum is open from Easter to end of
October. Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sun and Bank
Holiday Mondays from 10.30am - 5.30pm. Open at other
times by arrangement (Contact for details). Open
November to Easter - Sunday 10.30am - 5.30pm.
Admission Charges: Adults £3.00. Children 16 and
under FREE (must be accompanied by an adult). |
The museum was opened in 1974, and is based in
the old Methodist school built in 1836. It is
tucked away just off the green down from the
Post Office shop. It is set amidst the
spectacular scenery of Swaledale and
Arkengarthdale.
There are over 1,000
objects connected with living and working in the
Dale spanning over four centuries, from leadmining
to quilt making. Gifts, local interest books,
maps and guides are on sale in the shop. For
further details see website.
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Whitby Museum
Pannett Park, Whitby,
YO21 1RE
Tel: 01947 602908
Permanent displays about the history of Whitby
including Captain Cook, the Scoresby's, giant
fossils and model ships. Unique collections of
jet jewellery, Victorian samplers and much more.
Art Gallery has changing exhibitions.
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Whitby Archives Heritage
Centre
Flowergate, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO21 3BA
Tel: 01947 600170
E-mail:
whitbyarchive@tiscali.co.uk
Web:
www.whitbyarchives.org.uk
A Heritage Centre voluntary trust collecting
local pictorial material with changing displays
in its Grape Lane headquarters. Family history
research department.
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EDEN CAMP
Off A64 Malton, North Yorks, YO17 6RT
Tel: 01653 697777
E-mail:
admin@edencamp.co.uk
Web:
www.edencamp.co.uk
EDEN CAMP is a unique
Museum and 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 -
There are reconstructed scenes using movement,
lighting, sound, smells even smoke machines to
transport you back in time, to make you feel
that you are there taking part in history.
This special award winning
Museum is an original Prisoner of War Camp built
in 1942. The fascinating displays hold, and
reveal to you, the vital spirit which eventually
triumphed in 1945. These superb and lifelike
exhibits make a visit to EDEN CAMP a wonderful
and educational day out for all the family.
Please allow 3 to 4 hours for a visit. It is the
only Theme Museum to offer such an experience
coupled to value for money, so don't miss it. We have excellent
facilities and are fully accessible for the
disabled and visually impaired. There is ample
FREE PARKING for up to 400 cars and 30 coaches.
Braille sheets and tapes are available. A great
day out for all the family. See our website.
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Crescent Arts
The Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11
2PW
Tel: 01723 351461
E-mail:
info@crescentarts.co.uk
Web:
www.crescentarts.co.uk
Provides visual arts facilities and studio space
for practising artists; a public gallery showing
exhibitions of contemporary art in a wide
variety of media; and an education programme of
workshops, courses and events.
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The Sutcliffe Gallery
1 Flowergate, Whitby, YO21 3BA
Tel: 01947 602239 Fax:
01947 820287
E-mail:
photographs@sutcliffe-gallery.fsnet.co.uk
Web:
www.sutcliffe-gallery.co.uk
A display devoted to Frank Meadow-Sutcliffe's
maritime and rural 19thC photographs. Prints
available to order online the website.
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TOCKETTS MILL
1 mile east of Guisborough on the A173 to
Skelton, NZ 627181
Open: Easter Sun & Mon
2-4pm. National Milling Day (2nd Sunday in May):
11am - 4pm. Spring Bank Holiday Sun & Mon 2-4pm.
August Bank Holiday Sun & Mon 2-4.pm and every
Sunday from the first Sunday in July to the last
in September.
A fully restored water
driven corn mill and Grade 2 listed building.
The Mill forms a centre piece to a secluded
caravan park. One of the most complete mills in
the country with it's four floors retaining
original machinery and a collection of milling
equipment from other sites.
Machinery will be running
on each open day and there is flour milling on a
regular basis. Admission: Adults £1.50, OAP £1,
Children 25p (must be accompanied by an adult).
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Museum of Victorian Whitby
Sandgate, Whitby,
North Yorkshire, YO22 4DB
Tel: 01947 601221
Museum depicting life in Victorian times, with
shops, interiors and yards etc.
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Filey Museum
8-10 Queen
Street, Filey, North Yorkshire, YO14 9HB
Tel: 01723
515945
E-mail:
fileymuseum810@aol.com
Fishing, lifeboat, rural, domestic, local and
photographic items.
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The Mouseman Visitor
Centre
Kilburn
Tel: 01347 869102
See our
website
The story of Robert Thompson , the village
wheelwright, who became renowned as "The
Mouseman" furniture maker. Visitors to the
centre can pass through rooms set in the 1930s
that are full of Robert Thompson’s own personal
furniture made with his own hands and signed
with early examples of the carved mouse symbol.
Cafe and gift shop.
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Gilles Jones Glass
Rosedale Abbey, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18
8SA
Tel: 01751 417550 Fax: 01751
417550
E-mail:
info@gilliesjonesglass.co.uk
Web:
www.gilliesjonesglass.co.uk
Studio and shop of Gillies-Jones Glass Design
where you can see individual designs in bold
coloured glass, and watch glass blowers at work.
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Wordsworth Gallery
Gallows Hill, Brompton, YO13 9QF
Tel: 01723 863298
Where William Wordsworth got married, the
mediaeval barn that was former home of Mary
Hutchinson, his wife, has an exhibition of the
poets Wordsworth and Coleridge, art gallery,
shop and tea rooms.
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Staithes Heritage Centre
High Street, Staithes, Saltburn-By-The-Sea
Cleveland. TS13 5BQ
Tel: 01947 841454
Extensive displays of lives of the past
residents of Staithes with particular reference
to the Fishing Industry. This is a privately
funded museum and there is a small entrance fee.
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