Yorkshire Museum

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The must see museum in York! Despite being relatively small, the Yorkshire Museum takes you smoothly, room by room, along a thousands of years trip. It goes from the beginning of the planet making you touch and see the fossils found on the Jurassic Coast, and then with a VR simulations of the local dinosaurs; to a village of 11.000 years ago, when humans lived around local lakes and rivers, with their still unknown rites and symbols; to the pre-Roman tribes living in Yorkshire, to the Roman occupation (see also the roman tower and walls foundations and the strange late roman building); to the rise of Constantine the Great, acclaimed emperor of the Roman Empire just in York; to the troubled period when Roman legions left and the Anglo-saxons occupied the power vacuum, to the invasion of the Vikings and their assimilation into the local population; to the role of the medieval Abbey of St. Mary (which you can still see in the gardens of the museum and in the many treasures on display in the museum ) in the wealth of the town and why and how it was dismantled piece by piece whith the Henry VIII dissolution of monasteries. It is free for residents and cheaper than any other attraction in York. On Saturday and Sunday at midday you can also join a great tour of the museum gardens and grounds which will tell you everything about the history of this place, York and Yorkshire (book at the entry booth when buying your ticket).

The museum is dated, small and a bit chaotic which is why we felt it was overpriced for what you get. But the vikings exhibition was great, the gardens are lovely and the ruins are also very impressive. You can enjoy a nice picnic after your visit away from the noice of the bussy streets.

Beautiful museum with lovely displays . Very informative and interactive sections for the kids. Plenty to see and do. The gardens are beautiful with a ghost statue display on . My grandson loved writing his name on the hieroglyphics board . Toilets were a little difficult when we needed them as the ladies were being cleaned, so we had to que for the disabled / mixed one. Then we found that wasn't flushing properly. Hopefully that doesn't happen too often each day.

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.