Yorkshire Museum

The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in , England. It was opened in 1830, and has five permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology, numismatics and astronomy.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: Museum in York, United Kingdom
  • Address: Museum Street, York, YO1 7DR
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Mary’s Abbey and York Minster.

Historic site
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The Abbey of St Mary is a ruined Benedictine abbey in , and a scheduled monument.

Church
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, formally the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of , North Yorkshire, England. is situated 1,200 feet east of Yorkshire Museum.

Library
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is situated in Museum Street, , England. It became a Grade II listed building in 1997. York's first subscription library opened in 1794, but it was only in 1893 that the city's first public library was opened in Clifford Street by the then Duke and Duchess of York, in a building formerly occupied by the Institute of Popular Science and Literature.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bootham and York.

Neighborhood
is a street in the city of , England, leading north out of the city centre. It is also the name of the small district surrounding the street.

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The ancient cathedral city of has a history dating back over 2000 years. Romans, Saxons, Vikings, and Britons from all eras have each left their mark.

Suburb
is an area of central , in . It lies within the city walls and has been occupied since at least the Roman period.

Yorkshire Museum

Latitude
53.96181° or 53° 57′ 43″ north
Longitude
-1.08757° or 1° 5′ 15″ west
Operator
York Museums Trust
Open location code
9C5WXW66+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13063082814
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q2086562
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Yorkshire Museum” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Yorkshire Museoa”
  • Chinese: “約克郡博物館”
  • Danish: “Yorkshire Museum”
  • Dutch: “Yorkshire Museum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف يوركشاير”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Yorkshire”
  • Estonian: “Yorkshire’i muuseum”
  • French: “Musée Yorkshire”
  • French: “Yorkshire Museum”
  • Galician: “Museo de Yorkshire”
  • German: “Yorkshire Museum”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון יורקשייר”
  • Irish: “Músaem Yorkshire”
  • Italian: “Yorkshire Museum”
  • Japanese: “ヨークシャー博物館”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de Yorkshire”
  • Russian: “Йоркширский музей”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Yorkshire”
  • Swedish: “Yorkshire Museum”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Tempest Anderson Hall and York Observatory.

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