This list of museums in South 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.
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Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet | Sheffield | Sheffield | Industry | Historic steel and iron-working site with living history enactors | |
Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum | ![]() |
Cawthorne | Barnsley | Local | information, information, local history, culture, agriculture |
Clifton Park Museum | ![]() |
Rotherham | Rotherham | Multiple | Local history, archaeology, Victorian period kitchen, toys, Rockingham Pottery, antiquities, natural and social history |
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery | Doncaster | Doncaster | Multiple | Natural history, archaeology, local history, fine and decorative art, pottery in Yorkshire | |
Elsecar Heritage Centre | ![]() ![]() |
Elsecar | Barnsley | Industry | Early industrial and mining village, exhibits on local history and industry and a Newcomen beam engine, buildings house an antiques centre, craft shops, Elsecar Heritage Railway |
Kelham Island Museum | ![]() |
Sheffield | Sheffield | Industry | Local industries including steelmaking, steam engines, Sheffield-made vehicles of the 1920s |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum | ![]() |
Doncaster | Doncaster | Military | History and memorabilia of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, located in the same building as Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery |
Magna Science Adventure Centre | ![]() |
Templeborough | Rotherham | Science | Located in a former steelworks, hands-on exhibits about earth, air, fire, water, power, steel-making |
Sheffield Fire and Police Museum | ![]() |
Sheffield | Sheffield | Multiple | Historic fire and police station with equipment, vehicles, uniforms, artifacts, local history displays |
Shepherd Wheel | Sheffield | Sheffield | Technology | Former water-powered grinding workshop with water wheel, grinding hulls and grinding wheels | |
South Yorkshire Transport Museum | ![]() |
Aldwarke | Rotherham | Transportation | Formerly the Sheffield Bus Museum, history of bus transport in South Yorkshire |
Weston Park Museum | ![]() |
Sheffield | Sheffield | Multiple | Art, natural history, archaeology, decorative arts, social history, ethnographic and Inuit artifacts |
Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country Park | ![]() |
Worsbrough | Barnsley | Mill | Features a 17th century water powered mill and a 19th century steam-powered mill |
Wortley Top Forge | ![]() |
Wortley, South Yorkshire | Barnsley | Industry | Historic former ironworks and water-powered forge |
York and Lancaster Regimental Museum | ![]() |
Rotherham | Rotherham | Military | website, history and memorabilia of the York and Lancaster Regiment |
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