Museums/Galleries in Yorkshire

Sights Overview

Name	Category	Location

Brontë Parsonage Museum The best of Haworth's Brontë sights is this somber Georgian...	Museums / Galleries	Haworth: Heart of Brontë Country

Captain Cook Memorial Museum Filled with exhibits documenting the life of the famous explorer...	Museums / Galleries	Whitby

Castle Museum A former 18th-century debtors' prison, this quirky museum of...	Museums / Galleries	York

Dales Countryside Museum In the same old train station as the Yorkshire Dales National...	Museums / Galleries	Hawes

Dig This venture from the people behind the Jorvik Viking Centre...	Museums / Galleries	York


Fairfax House This 1762 Georgian town house is a museum of decorative arts...	Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions	York

Georgian Theatre Royal A jewel box built in 1788 and still an active community playhouse...	Museums / Galleries	Richmond

Jorvik Viking Centre This kid-focused exhibition re-creates a 10th-century Viking...	Museums / Galleries	York

Leeds Art Gallery Next door to the Victorian Town Hall, the Leeds Art Gallery is...	Museums / Galleries	Leeds

National Media Museum Bradford, 10 miles west of Leeds, is known for this renowned...	Museums / Galleries	Saltaire

National Railway Museum A must for train-lovers, Britain's biggest railway museum houses...	Museums / Galleries	York

Rotunda Museum One of the country's first purpose-built museums, this extraordinary...	Museums / Galleries	Scarborough

Royal Armouries Much of the legendary arms and armor originally collected in...	Museums / Galleries	Leeds

Royal Pump Room Museum This octagonal structure was built in 1842 over the original...	Museums / Galleries	Harrogate

Temple Newsam One of the country's great country houses, this huge Elizabethan...	Museums / Galleries	Leeds

Thackray Medical Museum Even the squeamish won't balk at the exhibits in this museum...	Museums / Galleries	Leeds

Wensleydale Creamery In a working dairy, this museum tells the story of the famed...	Museums / Galleries	Hawes

Whitby Museum Exhibits in this quirky museum range from local geology and natural...	Museums / Galleries	Whitby

World of James Herriot The author's actual office forms part of this museum that re-creates...	Museums / Galleries	Thirsk

Yorkshire Museum The natural and archaeological history of the county, including...	Museums / Galleries	York
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