Category: Object of the Week
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North Yorkshire Wanderer Visits Whitby Museum
Whitby Museum recently welcomed The North Yorkshire Wanderer. If you haven’t been able to visit us before, or perhaps you...
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Library & Archives Blog – Waves of Royal National Lifeboat Institution information (RNLI)…
The RNLI are celebrating 200 years! We have a variety of archival documents and books to read featuring heroic stories,...
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Library & Archives Blog – ‘Our Lasses’ are in the Library
I thought I would search out some of the books we have in the library celebrating ‘Our Lasses’ and decided...
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May News
Fish and Ships Festival The annual Fish and Ships festival returns to Whitby for Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st of...
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Students of Caedmon College Choose Items for 200 Years Exhibition.
As part of our bicentenary exhibition ‘200 Years of Collecting’ students of Caedmon College chose items to reflect the 2020’s....
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Museum Shop
The museum shop is well stocked for all your gift requirements. New in ‘Whitby Timeline’ by Alan Appleton a must...
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Turtle
The turtle in Whitby Museum was washed aboard the Whitby steamship ‘Ethelfreda’ which was mid-Atlantic on it’s voyage from Baltimore...
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Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman was born in Bridlington in 1835, he moved to Whitby in 1855 and by 1861 was working as...
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Crow’s Nest
The crow’s nest was invented by William Scoresby senior. It was first used in 1807. It was constructed from wood...
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Duck’s Haberdashery
If you ever had the pleasure of going into Duck’s on Flowergate you will appreciate how accurate this tiny model...
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ZEPLIN III
Is it a dalek? No it’s a ZEPLIN III Dark Matter Detector! This extraordinary cylinder of gleaming copper, glass and...
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Totem Pole
The totem pole in Whitby Museum is our tallest object. It was donated to the town of Whitby in 1923...
