York Castle Museum - The Eye of York

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Take a journey through four hundred years in Britain at the York Castle Museum. York Castle Museum is one of Britain's leading museums of everyday life. It shows how people used to live by displaying thousands of household objects and by recreating rooms, shops, streets and even prison cells! The museum is best known for its recreated Victorian street, Kirkgate, which combines real shop fittings and stock with modern sound and light effects, to evoke an atmosphere of Victorian Britain. York Castle Museum offers a fun, interesting and educational day out for all the family to enjoy.

At the York Castle Museum you can discover period room settings including a Victorian parlour, an 1850s Moorland cottage, Jacobean and Georgian dining rooms, a 1940s kitchen and a 1950s front room. Whilst the The Sixties Gallery explores the music, fashion and everyday life of this exciting decade. The museum's past as two prison buildings is explored in York Castle Prison, where visitors come face to face with ex-prisoners including highwayman Dick Turpin, who was hanged in 1739 for horse stealing. Elsewhere you'll find displays of historic toys, fashion, armour, weapons, tools, printing presses, cooking utensils, farming equipment and so much more.