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Attracts visitors from Australia, New Zealand and Canada all year round as the place where it all started! Hence the 5 stars.
This is a 17th century house where James Cook lodged as apprentice seaman to Whitby shipmaster Captain John Walker. His house in Grape Lane, built in the 17th century, is now the Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
Cook was in Whitby for nine years, sailing on Walker's ships. It was here he learnt his seaman's trade.He is probably Yorkshire's most famous son. Includes period rooms in meticulously restored house, ship models, plans and manuscripts, artefacts from the voyages, and fine original paintings, drawings and prints. A rich collection of exhibits about The young Captain Cook who was apprenticed to Captain John Walker.
This handsome 17thC harbourside house is where the great explorer, James Cook, came to serve his apprenticeship in Whitby in the year 1746. It belonged to Cook's master, the Quaker ship owner, Captain John Walker.
When the young Cook was not at sea, he lodged here in the attic with Walker's 'other family' of apprentices. At the very top of the house, in the ship-timbered attic, the young James Cook pursued his winter studies by candlelight; huddled by the chimney breast for warmth, he must often have looked across the river to the shipyards where, later, the ships he would use on his famous voyages - Endeavour, Resolution, Adventure and Discovery would be built.
The special exhibition for 2008 is 'Smoking Coasts and Ice-bound Seas, Cook's Voyage to the Arctic'.
Paintings include Captain Bligh of the Bounty by John Russell
Bligh at his best, an Admiral by the time these pastels were painted, and as he would prefer us to remember him! He had been Cook's sailing master on Resolution. He also charted the Humber..I have seen the map in Grimsby archives.
The collections celebrate the life of Cook, his crews, and the artists and scientists who sailed with him. There are period rooms restored faithfully following an inventory of 1752, models, maps and manuscripts, ship plans, artefacts from the Voyages, and many fine original paintings, drawings and prints.
Explorer, cartographer of Australia and New Zealand and much beside, an inspired leader, Cook became a figure of international fame in his own lifetime, and after his death joined the ranks of the greatest explorers of all time. This is where he started.he himself said, ...not only as far as man has gone before, but as far as it is possible for man to go.
Adult £4.00
Child £3.00
Concession £3.50 (Available to Senior Citizens)
Family £10.50 (2 Adults 2 Children)