Hull And East Riding Museum

I often take my kids around the Hull museums on a weekend, as they are all free to get into, and this is one of their favourites.
Well worth a visit, and then you can pop into the Streelife Museum next door for free too.

Some great displays to grab childrens attention. Even I find it interesting. I visited as part of an archaeology trip whilst at college and the staff are very helpful with any questions you may have. Maybe some of the displays need a bit of tlc but other than that it’s a very interesting museum. My favourite displays are the huge mammoth and the old boat.

Needs updating. Half the displays are missing due to poor management by the council. Used to be amazing and still could be the best museum in Hull if the council pulls their fingers out.
Front of house staff are tremendous and friendly though, highly knowledgable and approachable.

a wonderful part of hulls ‘museums quarter’ which consists of a few very good and nicely kept museums. they often have events going on alongside their normals exhibitions too. the hull and east riding museum has lots of hands on things getting children involved with lots of things from dinosaurs and the romans to neanderthal man.

Most, if not all, of Hulls museums are free to get into.
This one is a gem. I was so busy enjoying it, when I was a student, I managed to get locked in at lunchtime.
Displays include the only dinosaur bones to have been found in East Yorkshire, Bronze Age warriors and their huts, and spectacular treasures from the Middle Ages. You can stroll through an Iron Age village and visit a Roman bath house.
For me the awesome thing is the boat. In a glass tank, constantly sprayed with wax and water is this enormous wooden boat, an Iron Age logboat the Hasholme boat was installed in the gallery within its conservation chamber in 1988.
They then shut the museum for restoration and archeological exploration (under it) but when it reopened they had created new Celtic World displays (1991) and put in a Mezzanine floor. Late 1990s displays about the prehistoric period in East Yorkshire were created. The Roman galleries were refurbished in 2002 and, in 2003, Anglo-​Saxon and medieval displays were installed.
Parts of three timber buildings have been reconstructed in the galleries and a medieval kiln reconstructed as well as a leatherworks. There is a huge Tudor gun and lots of beautiful Roman mosaics.
This museum has so much and is very educational. Great views of the river too.
The only photo I have of the Hasholme boat is an archeological one in situ but gives an idea of size.