List of museums in South Yorkshire

This list of museums in South Yorkshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Name Image Town/City Region Type Summary
Abbeydale Industrial HamletSheffieldSheffieldIndustryHistoric steel and iron-working site with living history enactors
Alfred Denny MuseumSheffieldSheffieldNatural historyWebsite, biology specimens, part of the University of Sheffield, open monthly for guided tours only
Bank Street ArtsSheffieldSheffieldArtContemporary arts centre
Bishops' HouseSheffieldSheffieldHistoric houseEarly 16th century half-timbered house, exhibitions on life in the 16th and 17th centuries with two rooms decorated in Jacobean style
Brodsworth HallBrodsworthDoncasterHistoric houseOperated by English Heritage, Victorian country house, features late 19th to late 20th century interiors, 1860s gardens
Cannon Hall Museum, Park & GardensCawthorneBarnsleyMultiple17th-century country house, includes collections of fine furniture, paintings, ceramics and glassware, houses the Regimental Museum of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and the Light Dragoons
Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee MuseumCawthorneBarnsleyLocalwebsite, information, local history, culture, agriculture
The Civic, BarnsleyBarnsleyBarnsleyArtwebsite, performing arts centre with art gallery
Clifton Park and MuseumRotherhamRotherhamMultipleLocal history, archaeology, Victorian period kitchen, toys, Rockingham Pottery, antiquities, natural and social history, York and Lancaster Regiment artefacts and memorabilia
Conisbrough CastleDoncasterDoncasterHistoric houseOperated by English Heritage, restored medieval castle keep and medieval life exhibits
Cooper GalleryBarnsleyBarnsleyArtwebsite, contemporary art exhibits, collection of 17th- to 20th-century paintings, watercolours and drawings
Cusworth HallCusworthDoncasterHistoric houseRestored 18th-century country house with local history exhibits
Doncaster Museum & Art GalleryDoncasterDoncasterMultipleNatural history, archaeology, local history, fine and decorative art, pottery in Yorkshire
Elsecar Heritage CentreElsecarBarnsleyIndustryEarly industrial and mining village, exhibits on local history and industry and a Newcomen beam engine, buildings house an antiques centre, craft shops, Elsecar Heritage Railway
Experience BarnsleyBarnsleyBarnsleyLocalLocal social history and archaeology, archives centre and changing exhibitions
Graves Art GallerySheffieldSheffieldArtCollections of 19th- and 20th-century British and European art
Kelham Island MuseumSheffieldSheffieldIndustryLocal industries including steelmaking, steam engines, Sheffield-made vehicles of the 1920s
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry MuseumDoncasterDoncasterMilitaryHistory and memorabilia of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, located in the same building as Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
Magna Science Adventure CentreTempleboroughRotherhamScienceLocated in a former steelworks, hands-on exhibits about earth, air, fire, water, power, steel-making
Maurice Dobson MuseumDarfieldBarnsleyLocalwebsite, local history
Millennium GallerySheffieldSheffieldArtExhibits of historic and contemporary art and crafts
National Emergency Services MuseumSheffieldSheffieldMultipleHistoric fire and police station with equipment, vehicles, uniforms, artifacts, local history displays
Rotherham Art GalleryRotherhamRotherhamArtwebsite, local art and crafts
S1 ArtspaceSheffieldSheffieldArtArtist-led organisation with programmes of contemporary exhibitions, commissions, screenings and events
Sheffield Institute of Arts GallerySheffieldSheffieldArtPart of Sheffield Hallam University, changing exhibits of art and design
Shepherd WheelSheffieldSheffieldTechnologyFormer water-powered grinding workshop with water wheel, grinding hulls and grinding wheels
Site GallerySheffieldSheffieldArtChanging exhibits of multimedia-based art
South Yorkshire Aircraft MuseumDoncasterDoncasterAerospaceOccupies the former site of RAF Doncaster, restored and historic airplanes
South Yorkshire Transport MuseumAldwarkeRotherhamTransportationFormerly the Sheffield Bus Museum, history of bus transport in South Yorkshire
Turner Museum of GlassSheffieldSheffieldArtPart of the University of Sheffield, nineteenth and twentieth century glass
Wentworth CastleStainboroughBarnsleyHistoric houseEarly 18th-century castle under restoration, gardens
Weston Park MuseumSheffieldSheffieldMultipleArt, natural history, archaeology, decorative arts, social history, ethnographic and Inuit artifacts
Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country ParkWorsbroughBarnsleyMillFeatures a 17th-century water powered mill and a 19th-century steam-powered mill
Wortley Top ForgeWortleyBarnsleyIndustryHistoric former ironworks and water-powered forge
Yorkshire ArtSpaceSheffieldSheffieldArtContemporary art exhibits
Yorkshire Sculpture ParkWest BrettonWest YorkshireArtOpen-air gallery on the border of South and West Yorkshire

Defunct museums

See also

  • Category:Tourist attractions in South Yorkshire

References

  1. ↑ "York & Lancaster Regiment Museum". Rotherham Military Community Veterans Centre. Retrieved 20 March 2015. The regimental museum in the Rotherham Central Librray and Arts centre closed on 23rd December 2011 and is planned to re-open in June/July 2013 in new premises within the Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham.
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