York Castle Museum
About
A social history museum in the former castle prison buildings facing Clifford's Tower, famous above all for Kirkgate, a full-size recreated Victorian street with cobbles, shopfronts and costumed staff that has been rebuilt and refined since 1938. The collections run from period rooms through wartime York to the actual condemned cell that held highwayman Dick Turpin before his execution on the Knavesmire in 1739. Tickets are valid for 12 months, and York-resident children go free.
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Highlights
- ✓Kirkgate, the recreated Victorian street
- ✓Dick Turpin's condemned cell in the old prison
- ✓Period rooms and wartime York galleries
Tips
- →Open Monday 11:00-17:00 and Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00 (from 10:00 Mondays in school holidays).
- →Adult £18, child £10.80, with tickets valid for a whole year; pre-book Saturdays and school holidays.
- →It faces Clifford's Tower across the Eye of York, so do the two together.
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