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Whitby Museum

Tel: 01947 602908
Email : keeper@whitbymuseum.org.uk (Mr. Mark Edwards)
Website : www.whitbymuseum.org.uk

Whitby Museum is an idependent Museum founded in 1823 and run by Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society.

The main hall retains the atmosphere of a Victorian/Edwardian Museum and has sometimes been called a 'Museum within a Museum'.

The Museum is also remarkable for the variety of its collections.
The fossil collection with the wall mounted saurians and the jet collection are of international importance.

Other very important collections are the Samplers, Ethnography, Ship Models and the Scoresby (2 whaling captains).

If you are interested in natural history, James Cook, archaeology, ceramics, paintings, bygones, Whitby Abbey, toys and dolls or militaria you are bound to find something of interest. Whitby Museum is the home of the 'Hand of Glory' and the 'Tempest Prognosticator'.

The Society also runs a library, an archives and lectures.

A new wing has been recently added to the Museum and contains temporary exhibitions and costume galleries as well as displays on ship building, herbaria and the Growth of Whitby


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