News
Exhibition
11/01/10
Scarborough Sea Front
Closed monday and sunday the gallery is pen from 10 til 5.
Situated above the Library in Goole town centre, th emuseum houses a collection of things nautical and is a great gallery space.
The museum`s permanent displays explore the history of the town and port of Goole, with a changing programme of temporary exhibitions in the adjacent gallery. The museum welcomes visits from schools and community groups, and has a dedicated Education Room in which pupils and visitors can work with the museum collections, and there are thematic `memoryboxes` containing a mixture of artefacts (original and replica) photographs and documents available to borrow free of charge. The museum also offers an enquiry service.
The Education Room is available to hire for meetings - POA for other organisations. The museum serves tea/coffee and has a small shop selling postcards. Free information sheets are available on aspects of the collections.
Goole Museum`s collections include: marine paintings by Reuben Chappell and other `Pierhead Painters`; shipbuilding and other trades; domestic life, including costume and textiles and historic photographs of Goole and the surrounding area. Digitally-copied prints can be ordered from the photograph collection for a small charge.
Goole Museum is on the first floor of the library building fronting the clock tower roundabout at the junction with Carlisle Street, in the town centre. Car parking is available close to the museum, either in the square behind Estcourt Street at the side of the building, or three minutes` walk away adjacent to the Leisure Centre in North Street. The railway and bus stations are both within five minutes` easy walking distance.
Address
Goole Museum
Carlisle Street
Goole
East Riding of Yorkshire
DN14 5AA
Telephone 01405 768963
Fax 01482 392782
Email janet.tierney@eastriding.gov.uk
Web Address http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/cs/culture-and-information/museums/goole-museum/
Admission Information
Free admission