Hull & East Riding Museum
📍 36 High St, Hull HU1 1NQ, UK
About Hull & East Riding Museum
The Hull & East Riding Museum, a prominent feature of Hull's historic Old Town and part of the vibrant Museum Quarter, offers visitors an extensive journey through thousands of years of local history. Widely celebrated with a 4.7/5 star Google rating, it's renowned for its archaeological collections, charting the region's past from the age of dinosaurs right up to more recent times. Visitors often marvel at the sheer scale of the museum and its rich array of artefacts.
As the Museum of Archaeology for the area, it showcases fascinating exhibits including a popular mammoth replica and intricate displays from Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and medieval periods. The museum strives to be engaging for all ages, incorporating interactive elements such as 'touch this' and 'smell this' features that bring history to life. As part of Hull's free museum quarter, donations are greatly appreciated to help maintain its captivating exhibitions.
Visiting Information
The Hull & East Riding Museum is open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and on Sundays from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The museum is committed to accessibility, offering wheelchair accessible parking, entrance, and restrooms, ensuring a comfortable visit for everyone.
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📍 36 High St, Hull HU1 1NQ, UK
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Showing 5 of 702 reviews from Google Maps.Last updated 30 January 2026.
From the outside, you don't realise the size of this museum and it is quite a warren of different rooms. This forms part of the Hull museum quarter, with each one being free to visit (but donations appreciated) This is also the Museum of Archaeology so the rooms take you from the dinosaurs to the middle ages but all from a local perspective. I do really enjoy visiting local history museums and I did come away with a greater knowledge and understanding. I was particularly impressed with the Roman mosaics. Good for all age groups and there are lifts for pushchair/disability scooter users.
This is a huge museum in the Old Town of Hull and part of the Museum Quarter. Usually when I am doing the museums this would be my third stops and I would be flagging; today I made a point of this being first. The exhibition is extensive and chock full of artefacts from the local area. Lighting is dim but there is a footpath trail around the site. There are steps and changes of level throughout but there are lifts available. At the front of the museum there is a small gift shop. Entrance is free but donations are invited. Lots of interactive stuff so great for kids. PS It’s free!
Lovely big informative museum! Mammoth replica is a great attraction, as is all of the interactive ‘touch this’ and ‘smell this’ throughout. Wonderfully interesting and unique. I think you’d struggle to entertain children in ALL parts of the museum, but there isn’t a lack of interaction to keep them occupied. Great day out alongside the street life one. Wish they had specialist magnets with the name or something. Gift shop was a bit lacklustre, but i loved the mammoth stuff.
Free to enter, very interesting museum focusing on archeology
I really like how the museum is set out in time periods from pre-historic to medieval. The finds in the local area were eye opening and insightful. There's a lot of reading, if you're onto that. A bit too much for me. But plenty to look at, including stuff for the kids. Excellent considering it's free to enter.