Whitby Museum & Pannett Art Gallery

An exciting museum and library housing many major collections including archeologically social historic artifacts, ceramics, fossils, paintings, photgraphs, militaria, toys and dolls

Contact Details:

Pannett Park
Whitby
North Yorkshire YO21 1RE

Contact: Mr Mark Edwards
Tel: 01947 602908
Website: www.whitbymuseum.org.uk

Whitby Museum is an independent 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 fossil 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 leech-powered 'Tempest Prognosticator'.

The Society also runs a library and archives, with an amazing amount of information about Whitby’s people and past. There are also events and talks through out the year. 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.

Opening hours are: Tuesday - Sunday 9.30 – 4.30pm, all year (closed over Christmas/New Year). Open Bank Holiday Mondays and Mondays in October half-term holidays and all within February.

Admission charges: children £1.00, Adult £3.00, seniors £2.50. Under 5’s go FREE. FREE to permanent residents of Whitby centre. Family ticket - (2 adults and up to 4 children) £7.00.

The main entrance is within the Pannett Art Gallery (same hours, FREE admission); disabled entrance at rear. Lift to each floor.