This list of museums in South 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 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield | Industry | Historic steel and iron-working site with living history enactors | |||
| Sheffield | Natural history | Website, biology specimens, part of the University of Sheffield, open monthly for guided tours only | |||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Art | Contemporary arts centre | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Historic house | Early 16th century half-timbered house, exhibitions on life in the 16th and 17th centuries with two rooms decorated in Jacobean style | ||
| Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, Victorian country house, features late 19th to late 20th century interiors, 1860s gardens | ||||
| Multiple | 17th-century country house, includes collections of fine furniture, paintings, ceramics and glassware, houses the Regimental Museum of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and the Light Dragoons | ||||
| Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum | Cawthorne | Barnsley | Local | website, information, local history, culture, agriculture | |
| Barnsley | Barnsley | Art | website, performing arts centre with art gallery | ||
| Multiple | Local history, archaeology, Victorian period kitchen, toys, Rockingham Pottery, antiquities, natural and social history, York and Lancaster Regiment artefacts and memorabilia | ||||
| Doncaster | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, restored medieval castle keep and medieval life exhibits | |||
| Barnsley | Art | website, contemporary art exhibits, collection of 17th- to 20th-century paintings, watercolours and drawings | |||
| Doncaster | Historic house | Restored 18th-century country house with local history exhibits | |||
| Doncaster | Doncaster | Multiple | Natural history, archaeology, local history, fine and decorative art, pottery in Yorkshire | ||
| Barnsley | Industry | Early industrial and mining village, exhibits on local history and industry and a Newcomen beam engine, buildings house an antiques centre, craft shops, Elsecar Heritage Railway | |||
| Barnsley | Barnsley | Local | Local social history and archaeology, archives centre and changing exhibitions | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Art | Collections of 19th- and 20th-century British and European art | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Industry | Local industries including steelmaking, steam engines, Sheffield-made vehicles of the 1920s | ||
| Doncaster | Doncaster | Military | History and memorabilia of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, located in the same building as Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery | ||
| Rotherham | Science | Located in a former steelworks, hands-on exhibits about earth, air, fire, water, power, steel-making | |||
| Barnsley | Local | website, local history | |||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Art | Exhibits of historic and contemporary art and crafts | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Multiple | Historic fire and police station with equipment, vehicles, uniforms, artifacts, local history displays | ||
| National Videogame Museum | Sheffield | Sheffield | Technology | A unique museum where you can play, explore and create videogames. Moved from Nottingham in December 2018, and was renamed from the National Videogame Arcade to the National Videogame Museum. | |
| Rotherham Art Gallery | Rotherham | Rotherham | Art | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Art | Artist-led organisation with programmes of contemporary exhibitions, commissions, screenings and events | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Art | Part of Sheffield Hallam University, changing exhibits of art and design | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Technology | Former water-powered grinding workshop with water wheel, grinding hulls and grinding wheels | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Art | Changing exhibits of multimedia-based art | ||
| Doncaster | Doncaster | Aerospace | Occupies the former site of RAF Doncaster, restored and historic aeroplanes | ||
| Rotherham | Transportation | Formerly the Sheffield Bus Museum, history of bus transport in South Yorkshire | |||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Art | Part of the University of Sheffield, 19th and 20th century glass | ||
| Barnsley | Historic house | Early 18th-century castle under restoration, gardens | |||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Multiple | Art, natural history, archaeology, decorative arts, social history, ethnographic and Inuit artifacts | ||
| Barnsley | Mill | Features a 17th-century water-powered mill and a 19th-century steam-powered mill | |||
| Barnsley | Industry | Historic former ironworks and water-powered forge | |||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Art | Contemporary art exhibits | ||
| Sheffield | Sheffield | Natural History | |||
| Wakefield | Art | Open-air gallery on the border of South and West Yorkshire | |||