This list of museums in North 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.
| Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, excavated Roman fort and artifacts | ||||
| York | Religious | 17th century Roman Catholic convent that was established and operated in secret, museum of its history | |||
| York | York | Historic house | Excavated and reconstructed medieval house | ||
| History | Period shops displays, Victorian-era pub and parlour, historic costume gallery | ||||
| Bedale Museum | Local | website, local history, household and agriculture tools and items, located in Bedale Hall | |||
| Hambleton | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, late Georgian mansion with baroque interior, walled garden, home to over 100 portraits on loan from the National Portrait Gallery | |||
| Historic house | Medieval fortress where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1569 after her defeat at the Battle of Langside | ||||
| Biographical | website, memorabilia and antiquities related to Captain James Cook, local history, fishing and mining | ||||
| Biographical | History and memorabilia of explorer Captain James Cook | ||||
| Scarborough | Historic house | 17th-century house where the young James Cook lodged as apprentice, period rooms, exhibits on Cook, his voyages and their impact | |||
| Hambleton | Education | website, reconstructed early 18th century schoolroom, exhibits about James Cook's early life and education, and his later achievements | |||
| York | Historic house | Early 18th century stately home with 1000acres of gardens and landscapes, collections of paintings, antiquities, bronzes, furniture and tapestries | |||
| York | York | History | website, located in the Micklegate Bar, history of York city walls | ||
| Mining | website, also known as the Tom Leonard Mining Museum, ironstone mining, mine tours, skills, customs and life of the miners | ||||
| Harrogate | Law enforcement | website, 19th century period courthouse, part of the "Yorkshire Law and Order Museums" | |||
| Multiple | website, local social history, archaeology, geology, art | ||||
| Hambleton | Local | Local history of the Yorkshire Dales, including school days, home life, leisure time, religion, transport, communication and tourism, farming, local crafts and industries | |||
| York | York | Archaeology | Discovery centre about the science of archaeology and area excavations | ||
| Local | Industrial designer Christopher Dresser, local Linthorpe Pottery, natural history, local history, pottery and decorative arts, Ancient Egyptian and Roman artefacts. | ||||
| Ryedale | Military | Former prisoner of war camp in World War II, themed barracks displays about the war | |||
| York | York | Historic house | Georgian townhouse with restored 18th century interior | ||
| Filey Museum | Scarborough | Local | website, local history, culture, fishing, farming, period craft and room displays | ||
| Harrogate | Multiple | Operated by the National Trust, include the ruins of the 12th century Cistercian monastery, Fountain Hall, Studley Royal Park, 12th-century Cistercian cornmill, water garden | |||
| Richmondshire | Technology | Restored 18th-century cotton mill and now sawmill | |||
| York | York | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, former home of the Terry's family with exhibits about the family and their chocolate business | ||
| Grassington Folk Museum | Skipton | Craven | History | website, local history, lead mining, minerals, tools, farming, period costumes, Yorkshire Dales Railway, household items | |
| Richmondshire | Military | History and memorabilia of the Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) | |||
| Guisborough Museum | Redcar and Cleveland | Local | information, local social, agricultural and commercial history | ||
| York | Mill | Late 18th-century tower windmill under restoration | |||
| Ryedale | Historic house | 18th century Palladian-style country house, childhood home of Katharine, Duchess of Kent | |||
| York | York | Archaeology | Preserved remains of the Viking city of Jórvík, reconstructed 10th century settlement with living history enactors | ||
| Richmondshire | Historic house | 17th century Jacobean house, exhibit on George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore and family | |||
| Redcar and Cleveland | Multiple | website, local history, art including works by the Staithes group, toys, mining, culture | |||
| Harrogate | History | Ruins of medieval fortress, Courthouse Museum of local history, royal residents, medieval life exhibit, Tudor courtroom | |||
| Kohima Museum | York | Military | website, located within Imphal Barracks and dedicated to the 1944 Battle of Kohima in India and the British and Indian soldiers who fought there | ||
| Ryedale | Archaeology | website, local Roman-era artifacts, reconstructed village home and artifacts from Wharram Percy, a deserted medieval village | |||
| York | York | Historic house | Early Georgian townhouse, official home of the Lord Mayor of York | ||
| Ripon | Harrogate | Historic house | 14th century medieval country house | ||
| Harrogate | Art | website, municipal art gallery for Harrogate district's fine art collection which consists of some 2000 works of art, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries | |||
| York | York | History | Medieval guild hall, almshouse and chapel with art, furniture and furnishings from different periods | ||
| Middlesbrough | Art | Contemporary art gallery | |||
| Richmondshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century manor house, open by advance arrangement | |||
| Museum of Victorian Science | Scarborough | Science | website, early scientific equipment and electrical instruments, open by appointment | ||
| York | York | Railway | History of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society, locomotives, rolling stock, equipment, artifacts and memorabilia | ||
| Ripon | Harrogate | Historic house | Late 17th-century house with interior by Robert Adam, gardens | ||
| Middlesbrough | Agriculture | Farm park and rare breed conservation centre, reconstructions of a 19th-century veterinary surgery and an early 20th-century agricultural merchants shop, history of farming since the 17th century | |||
| Harrogate | History | Rural life, period rooms and trades, costumes, agriculture tools and equipment, local industries and transport vehicles | |||
| Ryedale | Railroad | Heritage railroad, exhibits in the Pickering railway station | |||
| North Yorkshire Motor Museum | Ryedale | Transportation | website, commercial vehicles, automobiles, motorbikes, memorabilia, operated by Mathewson's North Yorkshire | ||
| Ryedale | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, country house with 17th and 18th century period rooms, art and photography exhibits | |||
| Redcar and Cleveland | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century mansion house with Victorian kitchen and laundry, gardens, weekend living history enactors | |||
| York | York | Military | History and artifacts of the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire; located in the same building as the Royal Dragoon Guards Museum | ||
| Ripon | Harrogate | Prison | website, 19th century prison and later police station, includes prison cells, pillory, stocks, whipping post, police box, history of policing, uniforms, insignia, part of the "Yorkshire Law and Order Museums" | ||
| Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry Museum | York | York | Military | information, history and artifacts of the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry, open by appointment | |
| York | York | Art | History of British quilt making and textile arts | ||
| York | York | Prison | Located in the Monk Bar, historic prison with exhibits of Richard III, last king of the Plantagenet dynasty | ||
| Richmondshire | Local | Local history, transportation, lead mining, period chemist's shop, grocer's shop and post office, set from the All Creatures Great and Small TV series | |||
| Scarborough | Local | website, local history, smuggling, fishing, shipping | |||
| York | York | Military | History and artifacts of the regiment | ||
| Harrogate | Harrogate | Local | Local history, culture, artifacts from Ancient Egypt, sulphur well, spa town heritage, Victorian home life | ||
| Scarborough | Natural history | Jurassic fossils and minerals, geology | |||
| Ryedale | Open air | website, historic buildings from different eras, trades and types, art gallery | |||
| Ryedale | Historic house | 1690 country house, remodeled in the late 1700s, decorated in 1860 and 1910, collection of paintings, porcelain and furniture, known for contemporary walled garden | |||
| Scarborough | Art | website | |||
| Scarborough | Amusement | Mechanical organs, steam engines, fairground rides, vintage cars, miniature vehicles and model railways | |||
| Hambleton | Historic house | Home of the Rev. Laurence Sterne, who is famous for his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | |||
| Craven | Historic house | Medieval fortress castle with six drum towers | |||
| Hambleton | Historic house | 18th century Georgian country house | |||
| Richmondshire | Local | Local history, geology, lead mining, trades, farming, culture | |||
| Hambleton | Local | website, local history, culture, 19th century period cottage kitchen, Victorian bedroom, early 20th century period sitting room, period shop displays, archaeology, cricketing memorabilia | |||
| Tockett's Mill | Guisborough | Redcar and Cleveland | Mill | website, restored water-driven corn mill and restaurant | |
| York | York | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, reflects different periods from the Roman to Edwardian eras, collection of antique furniture, ceramics, textiles and paintings from a 300-year period | ||
| Scarborough | Religious | Operated by English Heritage, remains and artifacts of the Benedictine abbey, visitor centre in Cholmley House | |||
| Whitby | Scarborough | Maritime | website, lifesaving history and artifacts, a lifeboat, models, paintings, medals, photographs, lifeboat kit, items from famous rescues, famous coxswains Henry Freeman and Tom Langlands | ||
| Whitby | Scarborough | Multiple | Local history, social history, Pannett Art Gallery, costumes, Whitby jet, Captain James Cook and HM Bark Endeavour, whaling industry, natural history, jewellery, | ||
| Redcar and Cleveland | Local | Local history, culture | |||
| Ripon | Harrogate | History | website, 19th century workhouse, part of the "Yorkshire Law and Order Museums" | ||
| Hambleton | Biographical | Life and works of veterinarian and author James Herriot, 1940s period house with veterinary science exhibits | |||
| York | York | Art | Collection includes paintings from 14th century to contemporary, and 20th century ceramics | ||
| York | York | History | Recreated Victorian street with shops, period rooms including a Victorian parlour and Jacobean dining room, displays of everyday life, 1960s memorabilia, wartime experience in World War II, York Castle Prison | ||
| York | Military | Secret Cold War bunker to monitor nuclear explosions and fallout in the event of nuclear war | |||
| York | York | Religious | Cathedral, tower, stained glass window conservation centre, exhibits of art and history of the cathedral | ||
| York | York | Art | Contemporary visual art space in a deconsecrated medieval church, operated by York Museums Trust | ||
| York | Aviation | Historic aircraft, history of RAF Elvington, military vehicles, exhibits on air gunners, RAF Bomber Command | |||
| York | York | Multiple | Natural history, geology, archaeology and astronomy | ||
| York | Agriculture | Agriculture equipment, rural life, changes in farming, small section of the Derwent Valley Light Railway, live animals | |||
| Zetland Lifeboat Museum and Redcar Heritage Centre | Redcar and Cleveland | Maritime | website, houses the Zetland lifeboat, exhibits about lifesaving rescues, replica fisherman's cottage, area maritime heritage | ||