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.
| Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maritime | Deep sea trawler museum ship | ||||
| Local | website, local history, located in the former gatehouse to the Bridlington Priory | ||||
| History | website, historic guildhall with medieval to 18th century rooms, furnishings, display of ceremonial silver and pewter, local history exhibits | ||||
| Bondville Model Village | History | information, over 200 miniature buildings on a 1-acre site | |||
| Breighton Aerodrome | 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 | Maritime | information, 1912 traditional sailing coble, local maritime artifacts | |||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | Natural history | website, dinosaur recreations, fossils | |||
| Art | Municipal art gallery | ||||
| Maritime | Lighthouse museum | ||||
| Military | Mid 19th century gun battery | ||||
| Goole Museum | Multiple | website, local history, art, located on the first floor of the Goole Library | |||
| Hands on History Museum | Local | website, local history, Egyptian gallery, located in the former Hull Grammar School | |||
| Hedon Museum | Local | website, local history, household items, community art gallery | |||
| Local | local oral history | ||||
| Multiple | Period rooms of a farmhouse, Hornsea Pottery, photographs, tools, household and agricultural devices, Victorian street scene of shops, schoolrooms, local industry and history | ||||
| Archaeology | website, artifacts and recreations of Iron Age, Roman and Viking life | ||||
| Maritime | Arctic whaling, maritime trade, fishing industry | ||||
| Humber Car Museum (Allan Marshall) | Automobile | Collection of Humber cars, closing 2018[1] | |||
| Military | Cold War-era underground nuclear bunker and radar operations centre | ||||
| Multiple | Early 18th-century house with period rooms, local history and art exhibits, gardens | ||||
| Multiple | 19th century windmill, houses the Museum of East Riding Rural Life with displays of agriculture, trades and rural household artifacts | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Archaeology | website, Roman British artifacts | ||||
| Maritime | Lightvessel museum ship | ||||
| Multiple | Includes the United Kingdom's national collection of hardy water lilies, collection of hunting trophies and travel memorabilia | ||||
| Transport | Antique cars, horse-drawn carriages and objects relating to local public transport | ||||
| Multiple | Includes the Beverley Art Gallery, local history displays, library and archive | ||||
| Historic house | Home and life of abolitionist William Wilberforce | ||||
| Local | Former lighthouse with local history exhibits | ||||