Yorkshire Museum

Wow what an interesting place! It doesn't look very big from outside but it has a floor underground. Really great collection of history and lots to interact with my 6 year old little boy loved it. Also the entrance fee includes a year's free entry! Great value

I can’t believe I was spending almost 4 hours in there. I am so fascinated with the different sections of exhibitions. The dinosaur fossils are so impressive. You also don’t want to miss the library on the upper floor with books over 300 years old. The people there can give you a lot more information if you talk with them.

Great experiance staff were friendly and knowledgeable about all the exzibits. Well worth the trip. The museum is also set in the grounds of an old abby which are another great thing to view with the gardens

Fabulous place and laid out in such an interesting manner it keeps kids attention. Highlights the Danish and Viking influence across the region when they plundered at will. One of York's highlights and easily walkable within the centre.

There was a viking exhibition going on, quite nice. Not a really big museum, but it probably will be good for kids, quite a lot of interacting things to play with, including a VR.

An excellent museum with amazing range of exhibits from pre Stone Age onwards. The building is built on the foundations if the ruined Abbey. The curator gave our group an excellent tour. Lovely to see the scgool groups enjoying their visit.

Our visit to the museum was mainly to see the Viking exhibition. There were a number of very interesting items and it only takes one thing that just triggers your curiosity. For me it was some of the intriguing hordes of coins buried to hide them from Viking the invaders. I also found a battle helmet with engravings a fascinating item to ponder. My only gripe is some places needed better signage. The Star Carr exhibit was also nicely thought out and a real insight into life in early Britain.

Went here with no great expectations but was pleasantly surprised. Much bigger than I thought. Started off in a prehistoric dinosaur room. Very good exhibits and information. Then onto early man exhibition. Then great exhibition about Roman times in the York area. Then vikings in York which I learned far more about than the yorvik centre. Also a smaller medieval room. Well worth the 9.50 entrance fee. Gardens are great to walk around as well.

What a great museum! It was fairly quiet on a Monday afternoon; a few school groups were going through, but they were well behaved and quiet. Here we were, two adults from America. I was there for the insights on Roman and medieval York, and the exhibits did not disappoint. We were at the British Museum in London not long before and it was showy and grand. I felt like I got more out of York's museum because it was about the day to day lives, the stuff that interests me the most as a writer and history geek.

I learned quite a bit from my visit to this museum. The collection is small, and most of what is displayed is from the area. Spend some time and pay attention to the placards. Some of the pieces are very significant; I watched some of the other visitors and they hardly paid any attention to some of the pieces. There a number of important displays containing helmets, coins, jewels, bowls Roman and Viking hoards. Note: the famous Middlesborough Meteorite, 1881, 4.5 MYA resides here.