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This marvelous museum opposite the castle has exhibits detailing the past 300 years of Yorkshire and English History. There are recreated rooms and whole streets. The museum also has a great collection of costumes showing what men, women and children wore in past decades and centuries.
Highly recommended for any visitor to the city of York.
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Even if you're not normally a museum person, you'll like this one. Many excellent displays of life in Edwardian and Victorian eras including some from more modern times. The museum buildings used to be a prison in the 18th century and part of the tour includes old prison cells and a description of the dismal prison life in those days.
Give yourself 3 hours minimum. Leave a Comment
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Explore a Victorian cobbled shopping street, look into family living rooms through the centuries and visit Dick Turpin's prison cell. You can take a step back to see every day life of the Victorian era and see some huge collections of costumes and textiles, military and social history from the period 1580 - 1980, or look at the special chocolate exhibition.
Current admission prices: £6 adults, £3.50 children/OAPs Leave a Comment Address: The Eye of York, York, YO1 9RYPhone: 01904 653611 Fax: 01904 671078Directions: Head towards Clifford's Tower on Tower Street. The Museum is directly opposite the Tower.Website: www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk/ Other Contact: Open daily 9.30pm - 5pm
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Give yourself plenty of time to visit this museum, a minimum of 2 hours but more than that if you can spare it.
Housed in the old prison, the Castle Museum is full of displays on social issues in England from farming to housewives to life during WWII, with rooms from typical homes from several different eras, examples of dress, children's toys, streets filled with shops from the Victorian & Edwardian periods.
One of my favorite sections was "From Cradle to Grave" which discussed changing customs over the years regarding birth, death and marriage.
At the end of the museum you'll see some of the old prison cells and an exhibit on infamous highwayman Dick Turpin.
Admission was L6.80 for adults, if you hang onto your ticket and plan on going back to York, you can revisit for free for the next 12 months!!! Leave a Comment
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...this former prison houses a fascinating museum on everyday life in Yorkshire (and/or Britain as a whole), from the 1800's and forward. Highlights include a recreated Victorian main street, original period clothing and artifacts, and old prison cells. Definitely worth a 3-4 hour visit! Leave a Comment
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Although it is called Castle Museum, this place has nothing to do with castles ,princes, queens etc. it shows how everyday things in the daily life of normal, everyday people have changed over the years. From dresses to toys, cooking , cleaning in the household to the risks of childbirth, just about everything is covered. I especially liked the Victorian streets with the lifesized shops.
Until July 31,2005 there is display of the postcard collection:We are the people.
You need a few hours for the museum, it's too good to just run through. Leave a Comment Address: York Castle Museum,Castle AreaDirections: The museum is near Cliffor Tower, just behind the parking lot.Website: www.york.castle.museum
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The York Castle Museum is the story of York over the last 400 years or so. Everyday life, military history, costume, Victorian and Edwardian street replicas, and a lot more. There was a castle in th is spot since the 11th century, thus the name but the museum focus's on everyday life in York's more recent history. Across from the museum and included in the price is the remains of Clifford's Tower, once part of the 13th century castle that stood here. Leave a Comment
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The Castle Museum, set inside its imposing facade with clock tower, brings over 400 years of history back to life in its award winning exhibitions and displays. You'll discover a unique combination of everyday life and extraordinary objects.
You can wander through cobbled streets, see a grand array of historic costumes, view the toys that children used to treasure and go shopping the Victorian way. That's one thing I like about rural museums, when they're done right, they can be excellent value.
The buildings that house these fabulous displays have their own history. They were originally prisons. All sorts, from debtors to murderers, were jailed here. Some were even hanged here.
Visitors who come to see the Museum's wonderful collections also gain insight into the harsh realities of prison life in the 18th Century. Leave a Comment
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Wander through the extensive exhibits of York Castle Museum
York Museum takes you through the different eras of human history. Check out the cool and deliciously fragrant chocolate exhibit. What does chocolate have to do with human history, you ask? Duh, when chocolate was first launched, women totally fell in love with it! Leave a Comment
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For me the highlight of my stay in York was my visit to the York Castle Museum. The museum consists of three main exhibits spread out through the buildings that at one time served as the city's prison. The exhibits are divided into military history collection, a social history collection and a costume collection. Surprisingly I found the social history collection the more interesting of the three. The exhibits here depict the social history of everyday life in Yorkshire since 1600. There are displays detailing a parlor from the late 19th century, domestic life during World War II and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as seen from the viewpoint of the working-class Brit. There is also a recreation of a cobbled stone street that gives you some idea of Dickensian England. The military museum is also very good and has one of the best collections of armour in England. There are also lifesize dioramas depicting soldiers through English history. Finally the Costume collection is also very strong. On display here are the clothes worn by the general population of all classes and ages over the past two hundred years. This collection is so large that only a fraction of it is on display.
Adult entry to the museum is 6.50 pounds while children are 3.50. The museum is open daily from 9:30am to 5pm. Leave a Comment Phone: 01904 687687Directions: The Eye of York which is of Tower Street. This is in the south end of the old town of York.Website: www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk
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