Jorvik Viking Centre

Get face-to-face with the Vikings on the very site where archaeologists discovered the remains of the place they once called home.
Discover what life was really like over 1000 years ago, meet our Viking residents, see over 800 items uncovered here, and journey through a reconstruction of actual Viking-Age streets.

JORVIK, Coppergate, York Y01 9WT
Tel : 01904 643211 ( 24-hour automated information line)
Tel: 01904 543403
Fax: 01904 627097

www.vikingjorvik.com

Eden Camp

A visit to our unique Museum at EDEN CAMP will transport you back in time to wartime Britain. You will experience the sights, sounds, even the smells of those dangerous years. This is no ordinary Museum - Not another Military Museum - Not a glass showcase Museum - We have reconstructed scenes using movement, lighting, sound, smells even smoke machines to transport you back in time, to make you feel that you are there taking part in history.

Our special award winning Museum is an original Prisoner of War Camp built in 1942. Our fascinating displays hold, and reveal to you, the vital spirit which eventually triumphed in 1945. These superb and lifelike exhibits make a visit to EDEN CAMP a wonderful and educational day out for all the family.

Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum, Malton, North Yorkshire,YO17 6RT
Tel: 01653 697777
Fax: 01653 698243

www.edencamp.co.uk

Ryedale Folk Museum

The museum is renowned for the collections of craft tools and workshops. All the workshops are set out as if the craftsman has just left the room. There are regular demonstrations of craft working including spinning, weaving, chair caning, woodcarving, blacksmithing and leatherwork.

Don’t Miss .. Apprentice tool chest, lace makers candle stool, the Victorian child’s wagon, tin smiths workshop, Victorian foundry patterns, Elizabethan glass furnace.

Hutton Le Hole, York, YO62 6UA
Tel: 01751 417367

www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk

Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life

The Beck Isle Museum is housed in a handsome Regency residence near the centre of Pickering, adjacent to the Pickering Beck, a stream that flows under a four arched road bridge. One arch of this bridge (originally much narrower) is reputedly of mediaeval origin.

The collection is not restricted to a particular period of interest, it aims to reflect the local life and customs and to trace many of the developments in social and domestic life during the last 200 years. Formality has been avoided as far as possible and the accessibility of most objects displayed is a particular attraction.

Beck Isle Museum of Rural life, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 8DU
Tel: 01751 473653

www.beckislemuseum.co.uk

Captain Cook Memorial Museum

The Museum has a collection of exhibits about Cook's Whitby years and his later achievements, and includes unique items of great historical importance. It is located in the old house by the harbour side which has for over two hundred years been associated with Cook.

It was to this house that in 1746 James Cook, then a youth aged seventeen, came to be apprenticed to Captain John Walker of Grape Lane, Whitby.

Here he learnt the seaman's skills, sailing out of Whitby on Walker's ships. It all began here, in the house by the harbour.

Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Grape Lane, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO22 4BA
Tel: 01947 601900

www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk

Whitby Museum

Whitby Museum is run by the Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society. It was established in 1823 and not only preserves the unique atmosphere of an Edwardian museum but combines this with many varied, important and unusual collections.

The Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society was founded in 1823 by a group of leading citizens led by the Rev. George Young, the author of the classic nineteenth century " History of Whitby " (1819) and minister at the Presbyterian Church. The chief object of the Society was to set up and maintain a museum, specialising in fossils, since " Whitby is a chief town of a district abounding with petrifications and containing not a few Antiquities " . The Museum opened in rooms over a shop in Baxtergate but soon moved to a building on the Quay side where it continued to grow.

www.durain.demon.co.uk

Bram Stoker's Dracula Experience

Lifelike models, animated ship, opening coffins. Electronic Special effects and live actors. Visit the Dracula Experience while staying with us in Whitby.
9 Marine Parade, Whitby.
Tel: 01947 601923 / 01723 501016

Darlington Railway Centre & Museum

This year we celebrate one hundred and seventy six years of railways in the town, railways which have changed the face of travel and changed the course of history.

Located within the grounds of Darlington Railway Centre are Darlington Railway Preservation Society, the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust and the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group.

The society was formed in 1980 to preserve local relics of the Railway Heritage of Darlington. Inside the workshops are several locomotives that were either built or spent their working lives in and around the Darlington Area. These include a diesel shunter, which worked at Cleveland Bridge when they were based in Smithfield Road, an electric locomotive from the Darlington Chemical Works on West Auckland Road, and No39, a large 0-6-0 Tank Engine, built at Robert Stephenson's works in Thompson Street.

The Society's biggest project is the full restoration of the BR 2-6-0 Mixed Traffic loco 78018. This engine was built in the North Road works at Darlington and spent much of its life working between the Western and the Eastern side of the Pennines, over the ferocious Stainmore Summit. It is expected to take several years to complete the rebuilding of this engine and it is hoped eventually that 78018 may run over the line from Bishop Auckland to Eastgate (The Weardale Line).

Tel. 01325 460532

www.drcm.org.uk

The Heartbeat Story

Dedicated to the Heartbeat TV program. Featuring original props, costumes, scripts, PC Rowans Bike, Claudes Truck and lots to see and learn.
Shambles Market Hall, Off Church St, Whitby.
Tel: 01947 825067 / 896401
Email: heartbeatstory@hotmail.com