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.
Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Notes |
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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet | Sheffield | Sheffield | Industry | Historic steel and iron-working site with living history enactors | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 Sculpture Park | West Bretton | Wakefield | Art | Open-air gallery on the border of South and West Yorkshire | |
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