The Schoolroom Museum in Great Ayton is housed in a building once used as a charity school which was founded in 1704 by Michael Postgate, a local landowner. It was here, between 1736 and 1740, that Captain James Cook received his early education....

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Take hold of the past and explore the excavations which fi rst unearthed the Viking-age city in our brand new exhibitions.

The remains of 1,000-year-old houses are revealed beneath your feet,...

Situated on the route of York's Famous Walls walk, Micklegate Bar Museum has stood sentinel to the city for over 800 years.

As York's most important gateway, the bar has served a number of important roles since its construction in the 12th...

Follow the Law and Order Trail around the historic city of Ripon and visit the three museums that together tell the story of law and order in Yorkshire, providing an insight into the harsh conditions our forebears had to endure not so many years...

Thirsk Museum was established in 1975 with the aim of preserving objects that were disappearing from everyday use, but which told something of the history and customs of past generations who had lived and worked in Thirsk and the surrounding district....

We’ve got over 400 years of York’s past in one place, from Elizabethan soldiers to Victorian debtors and from Georgian dolls’ houses to the Swinging Sixties. Come and spend a day in the past – see, hear and feel yesterday’s...

Murton Park is home to the Yorkshire Museum of Farming which holds an impressive collection of agricultural equipment. The Four Seasons Gallery takes visitors through the farming year, season by season and the Livestock building which concentrates...