List of museums in South Yorkshire

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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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NameImageTown/CityRegionTypeNotes
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.JPG Sheffield SheffieldIndustryHistoric steel and iron-working site with living history enactors
Alfred Denny Museum Denny Perak.jpg Sheffield SheffieldNatural history Website, biology specimens, part of the University of Sheffield, open monthly for guided tours only
Bank Street Arts SheffieldSheffieldArtContemporary arts centre
Bishops' House BishopsHouse01.jpg SheffieldSheffieldHistoric houseEarly 16th century half-timbered house, exhibitions on life in the 16th and 17th centuries with two rooms decorated in Jacobean style
Brodsworth Hall Brodsworth Hall 1.jpg Brodsworth Doncaster Historic houseOperated by English Heritage, Victorian country house, features late 19th to late 20th century interiors, 1860s gardens
Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens Cannon Hall (Barnsley).jpg Cawthorne Barnsley Multiple17th-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 Museum - geograph.org.uk - 95955.jpg CawthorneBarnsleyLocal website, information, local history, culture, agriculture
The Civic, Barnsley BarnsleyBarnsleyArt website, performing arts centre with art gallery
Clifton Park and Museum Clifton House March 2017.jpg Rotherham Rotherham MultipleLocal history, archaeology, Victorian period kitchen, toys, Rockingham Pottery, antiquities, natural and social history, York and Lancaster Regiment artefacts and memorabilia
Conisbrough Castle Conisbrough Castle Doncaster winter time.jpg Doncaster DoncasterHistoric houseOperated by English Heritage, restored medieval castle keep and medieval life exhibits
Cooper Gallery Barnsley BarnsleyArt website, contemporary art exhibits, collection of 17th- to 20th-century paintings, watercolours and drawings
Cusworth Hall Cusworth DoncasterHistoric houseRestored 18th-century country house with local history exhibits
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery Doncaster Museum.JPG DoncasterDoncasterMultipleNatural history, archaeology, local history, fine and decorative art, pottery in Yorkshire
Elsecar Heritage Centre Elsecar Heritage Centre.jpg Elsecar BarnsleyIndustryEarly 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 BarnsleyBarnsleyLocalLocal social history and archaeology, archives centre and changing exhibitions
Graves Art Gallery SheffieldSheffieldArtCollections of 19th- and 20th-century British and European art
Kelham Island Museum Yorkshire Engine 2481 05-10-16 30.jpeg SheffieldSheffieldIndustryLocal industries including steelmaking, steam engines, Sheffield-made vehicles of the 1920s
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum DoncasterDoncasterMilitaryHistory and memorabilia of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, located in the same building as Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
Magna Science Adventure Centre Magna Science Adventure Centre.jpg Templeborough RotherhamScienceLocated in a former steelworks, hands-on exhibits about earth, air, fire, water, power, steel-making
Maurice Dobson Museum Darfield BarnsleyLocal website, local history
Millennium Gallery SheffieldSheffieldArtExhibits of historic and contemporary art and crafts
National Emergency Services Museum FireMuseumS3 8PT.jpg SheffieldSheffieldMultipleHistoric fire and police station with equipment, vehicles, uniforms, artifacts, local history displays
National Videogame Museum SheffieldSheffieldTechnologyA 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 RotherhamArt
S1 Artspace SheffieldSheffieldArtArtist-led organisation with programmes of contemporary exhibitions, commissions, screenings and events
Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery SheffieldSheffieldArtPart of Sheffield Hallam University, changing exhibits of art and design
Shepherd Wheel Shepherd Wheel.JPG SheffieldSheffieldTechnologyFormer water-powered grinding workshop with water wheel, grinding hulls and grinding wheels
Site Gallery SheffieldSheffieldArtChanging exhibits of multimedia-based art
South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum DoncasterDoncasterAerospaceOccupies the former site of RAF Doncaster, restored and historic aeroplanes
South Yorkshire Transport Museum Aldwarke RotherhamTransportationFormerly the Sheffield Bus Museum, history of bus transport in South Yorkshire
Turner Museum of Glass TurnerMuseum02.jpg SheffieldSheffieldArtPart of the University of Sheffield, 19th and 20th century glass
Wentworth Castle Wentworth Castle01 2007-08-13.jpg Stainborough BarnsleyHistoric houseEarly 18th-century castle under restoration, gardens
Weston Park Museum Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield.jpg SheffieldSheffieldMultipleArt, natural history, archaeology, decorative arts, social history, ethnographic and Inuit artifacts
Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country Park Worsbrough Mill 2005.jpg Worsbrough BarnsleyMillFeatures a 17th-century water-powered mill and a 19th-century steam-powered mill
Wortley Top Forge Wortley BarnsleyIndustryHistoric former ironworks and water-powered forge
Yorkshire ArtSpace SheffieldSheffieldArtContemporary art exhibits
Yorkshire Sculpture Park West Bretton WakefieldArtOpen-air gallery on the border of South and West Yorkshire

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References

  1. ↑ "York & Lancaster Regiment Museum". Rotherham Military Community Veterans Centre. Retrieved 20 March 2015. The regimental museum in the Rotherham Central Library 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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