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 |
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Fort Paull | Paull | East Riding | Military | Mid 19th century gun battery | |
Goole Museum & Art Gallery | Goole | East Riding | Multiple | website, local history, art | |
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 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 | |
Spurn Lightship | Hull | East Riding | Maritime | Lightvessel museum ship | |
Streetlife Museum of Transport | Hull | East Riding | Transport | Antique cars, horse drawn carriages and objects relating to local public transport | |
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[]
References[]
- ↑ http://www.oldpennymemories.co.uk/ Closed, may reopen in 2011
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