Captain Cook Memorial Museum
Captain Cook Memorial Museum is a history museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The museum building, Walker's House, belonged to Captain John Walker, to whom James Cook was apprenticed in 1746.Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: 9:45 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: Grade I listed historic house museum in Whitby, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Captain Cook Museum Whitby” and “Cook Museum”
- Address: Grape Lane, Whitby, YO22 4BA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Whitby Abbey and The Quirky Den.
Whitby Abbey
Historic site
Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom. Whitby Abbey is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
Whitby railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitby is a railway station serving the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. It is the southern terminus of the Esk Valley Line from Middlesbrough. Whitby railway station is situated 1,100 feet southwest of Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ruswarp and Ewe Cote.
Ruswarp
Village
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ruswarp is a village in the civil parish of Whitby, in North Yorkshire, England. It is around 1.8 miles from Whitby, at the junction of the B1410 and B1416 roads, on the River Esk and the Esk Valley Line, with trains stopping at Ruswarp railway station.
Ewe Cote
Locality
Ewe Cote is a small hamlet on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, set in the northern edge of the civil parish of Whitby, in North Yorkshire, England.
Stainsacre
Hamlet
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stainsacre is a village in the civil parish of Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre, in the English county of North Yorkshire and situated on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. Stainsacre is situated 2 miles southeast of Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
Captain Cook Memorial Museum
- Categories: maritime museum, historic house museum, independent museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Whitby, Scarborough District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.48676° or 54° 29′ 12″ northLongitude
-0.6118° or 0° 36′ 43″ westOpen location code
9C6XF9PQ+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 688020298OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q5036604
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Irish—“Captain Cook Memorial Museum” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Captain Cook Memorial Museum”
- French: “Captain Cook Memorial Museum”
- Irish: “Músaem Cuimhneachán Chaptaen Cook”
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