Name
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Image
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Town/City
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Region
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Type
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Notes
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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet |
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Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Industry |
Historic steel and iron-working site with living history enactors
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Alfred Denny Museum |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Natural history |
Website, biology specimens, part of the University of Sheffield, open monthly for guided tours only
|
Bank Street Arts |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Art |
Contemporary arts centre
|
Bishops' House |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Historic house |
Early 16th century half-timbered house, exhibitions on life in the 16th and 17th centuries with two rooms decorated in Jacobean style
|
Brodsworth Hall |
|
Brodsworth |
Doncaster |
Historic house |
Operated by English Heritage, Victorian country house, features late 19th to late 20th century interiors, 1860s gardens
|
Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens |
|
Cawthorne |
Barnsley |
Multiple |
17th-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 Museum |
|
Cawthorne |
Barnsley |
Local |
website, information, local history, culture, agriculture
|
The Civic, Barnsley |
|
Barnsley |
Barnsley |
Art |
website, performing arts centre with art gallery
|
Clifton Park and Museum |
|
Rotherham |
Rotherham |
Multiple |
Local history, archaeology, Victorian period kitchen, toys, Rockingham Pottery, antiquities, natural and social history, York and Lancaster Regiment artefacts and memorabilia
|
Conisbrough Castle |
|
Doncaster |
Doncaster |
Historic house |
Operated by English Heritage, restored medieval castle keep and medieval life exhibits
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Cooper Gallery |
|
Barnsley |
Barnsley |
Art |
website, contemporary art exhibits, collection of 17th- to 20th-century paintings, watercolours and drawings
|
Cusworth Hall |
|
Cusworth |
Doncaster |
Historic house |
Restored 18th-century country house with local history exhibits
|
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery |
|
Doncaster |
Doncaster |
Multiple |
Natural history, archaeology, local history, fine and decorative art, pottery in Yorkshire
|
Elsecar Heritage Centre |
|
Elsecar |
Barnsley |
Industry |
Early 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 Barnsley |
|
Barnsley |
Barnsley |
Local |
Local social history and archaeology, archives centre and changing exhibitions
|
Graves Art Gallery |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Art |
Collections of 19th- and 20th-century British and European art
|
Kelham Island Museum |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Industry |
Local industries including steelmaking, steam engines, Sheffield-made vehicles of the 1920s
|
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum |
|
Doncaster |
Doncaster |
Military |
History and memorabilia of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, located in the same building as Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
|
Magna Science Adventure Centre |
|
Templeborough |
Rotherham |
Science |
Located in a former steelworks, hands-on exhibits about earth, air, fire, water, power, steel-making
|
Maurice Dobson Museum |
|
Darfield |
Barnsley |
Local |
website, local history
|
Millennium Gallery |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Art |
Exhibits of historic and contemporary art and crafts
|
National Emergency Services Museum |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Multiple |
Historic fire and police station with equipment, vehicles, uniforms, artifacts, local history displays
|
National Videogame Museum
|
|
Sheffield
|
Sheffield
|
Technology
|
A unique museum where you can play, explore and create videogames. Moved from Nottingham in December 2018, and was renamed from the National Videogame Arcade to the National Videogame Museum.
|
Rotherham Art Gallery |
|
Rotherham |
Rotherham |
Art |
|
S1 Artspace |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Art |
Artist-led organisation with programmes of contemporary exhibitions, commissions, screenings and events
|
Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Art |
Part of Sheffield Hallam University, changing exhibits of art and design
|
Shepherd Wheel |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Technology |
Former water-powered grinding workshop with water wheel, grinding hulls and grinding wheels
|
Site Gallery |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Art |
Changing exhibits of multimedia-based art
|
South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum |
|
Doncaster |
Doncaster |
Aerospace |
Occupies the former site of RAF Doncaster, restored and historic aeroplanes
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South Yorkshire Transport Museum |
|
Aldwarke |
Rotherham |
Transportation |
Formerly the Sheffield Bus Museum, history of bus transport in South Yorkshire
|
Turner Museum of Glass |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Art |
Part of the University of Sheffield, 19th and 20th century glass
|
Wentworth Castle |
|
Stainborough |
Barnsley |
Historic house |
Early 18th-century castle under restoration, gardens
|
Weston Park Museum |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Multiple |
Art, natural history, archaeology, decorative arts, social history, ethnographic and Inuit artifacts
|
Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country Park |
|
Worsbrough |
Barnsley |
Mill |
Features a 17th-century water-powered mill and a 19th-century steam-powered mill
|
Wortley Top Forge |
|
Wortley |
Barnsley |
Industry |
Historic former ironworks and water-powered forge
|
Yorkshire ArtSpace |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Art |
Contemporary art exhibits
|
Yorkshire Natural History Museum |
|
Sheffield |
Sheffield |
Natural History |
|
Yorkshire Sculpture Park |
|
West Bretton |
Wakefield |
Art |
Open-air gallery on the border of South and West Yorkshire
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