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Georgian Shoes
Perhaps the most famous pair of shoes in the Whitby Museum Costume Collection, these Georgian shoes date from 1760 and...
Jet Chessboard
This magnificent chessboard was designed and made by John Sherwood (b.1846) in his workshop at 101 Church Street, Whitby. It...
1717 Whitby Painting
This quaint painting can be seen hanging in the main hall of Whitby Museum. On first glance you may not...
Custom House Hotel Matchbox Holder
When photographing our social history collection recently we looked closer at this tiny object, a matchbox holder from the old...
Jet Carvers Eggs
Imagine the skill involved in carving an egg without piercing the shell, this was a mark of the precision of...
Black Wedding Dress
In the Whitby Museum costume collection we have a black wedding dress dated 1874. The dress has been painstakingly conserved...
Cauldron Snout Stone Axe
In May 1910, Joseph Maughan of East Pastures, Skelton-in-Cleveland, found this axe embedded in dark coloured clay below the surface...
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Abbey Collection Video
The latest in our series of collection videos features our Abbey collection. The Abbey collection has had a redisplay and...
Corn Dolly Nativity
Normally at this time of year we display one of our most fragile objects, a nativity made of straw. These...
Museums of Whitby
THE MUSEUMS OF WHITBY JOIN FORCES A brand new partnership has been formed in Whitby. It consists of the six...
The Witch Post
Witch posts are almost exclusively a feature of the North York Moors region. Only two examples have been found from...
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Winning Poem
During the first lockdown we asked you to send us poems inspired by Whitby Museum. We received some amazing entries....
