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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 Arctic corsair.jpg Hull East Riding Maritime Deep sea trawler museum ship
Bayle Museum The Bayle Gate, Bridlington 1.JPG Bridlington East Riding Local website, local history, located in the former gatehouse to the Bridlington Priory
Beverley Guildhall The Guildhall, Register Square, Beverley.jpg Beverley East Riding History website, historic guildhall with medieval to 18th century rooms, furnishings, display of ceremonial silver and pewter, local history exhibits
Bondville Model Village Bridlington03.jpg Sewerby East Riding History information, over 200 miniature buildings on a 1-acre site
Breighton Aerodrome Breighton Airfield and Aeroplane Museum.jpg Breighton East Riding Aviation website, classic aircraft collection of the Real Aeroplane Company and the Real Aeroplane Club, open for members, located at RAF Breighton
Bridlington Harbour Heritage Museum Bridlington East Riding Maritime information, 1912 traditional sailing coble, local maritime artifacts
Burton Agnes Hall Burton Agnes Hall front view.jpg 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 Burton Constable Hall.JPG 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 Ferens Art Gallery.jpg Hull East Riding Art Municipal art gallery
Flamborough Head Lighthouse Flamborough Lighthouse.JPG Flamborough East Riding Maritime Lighthouse museum
Fort Paull Fort Paull Entrance.JPG Paull East Riding Military Mid 19th century gun battery
Goole Museum Goole East Riding Multiple website, local history, art, located on the first floor of the Goole Library
Hands on History Museum The Old Grammar School - geograph.org.uk - 240622.jpg Hull East Riding Local website, local history, Egyptian gallery, located in the former Hull Grammar School
Hedon Museum Hedon East Riding Local website, local history, household items, community art gallery
Holderness museums Holderness East Riding Local local oral history
Hornsea Museum Hornsea Museum Front.jpg 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 and East Riding Museum - geograph.org.uk - 235231.jpg Hull East Riding Archaeology website, artifacts and recreations of Iron Age, Roman and Viking life
Hull Maritime Museum Hull Maritime Museum.jpg Hull East Riding Maritime Arctic whaling, maritime trade, fishing industry
Humber Car Museum (Allan Marshall) Hull East Riding Automobile Collection of Humber cars, closing 2018
RAF Holmpton Nuclear warhead RAF Holmpton underground bunker.jpg Holmpton East Riding Military Cold War-era underground nuclear bunker and radar operations centre
Sewerby Hall Sewerby Hall.jpg Sewerby East Riding Multiple Early 18th-century house with period rooms, local history and art exhibits, gardens
Skidby Windmill Skidby Working Windmill 1.jpg 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 House.jpg Sledmere East Riding Historic house Georgian country house with Chippendale, Sheraton and French furnishings, fine pictures, military museum about the First World War wagon reserves, gardens, set within a park designed by Capability Brown
Southburn Archaeological Museum Southburn East Riding Archaeology website, Roman British artifacts
Spurn Lightship Spurn Lightship Post-Refurb, March 2023.jpg Hull East Riding Maritime Lightvessel museum ship
Stewart's Burnby Hall Gardens and Museum Burnby Hall Gardens.jpg 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 The Transport Museum - geograph.org.uk - 560989.jpg Hull East Riding Transport Antique cars, horse-drawn carriages and objects relating to local public transport
Treasure House Treasure House Beverley.jpg Beverley East Riding Multiple Includes the Beverley Art Gallery, local history displays, library and archive
Wilberforce House Wilberforce House Hull.jpg Hull East Riding Historic house Home and life of abolitionist William Wilberforce
Withernsea Lighthouse Museum Withernsea Lighthouse.JPG Withernsea East Riding Local Former lighthouse with local history exhibits

Defunct museums

See also

  • Tourist attractions in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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