Our Opening Times :Monday-Friday 9.00am to 4.00pm/Saturday & Sunday 10.00am to 4.00pm
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WE WON!! Access for All Tourism Award
Hear the BBC Humberside Interview 20/10/2009 About our Award Here.
The Yorkshire Waterways Museum has been announced the 2007 winner of the prestgious Yorkshire Tourist Board White Rose Award as The Best Visitor Attraction of the year (under 50,000 visitors) For more details please view the news page on this website.
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The Yorkshire Waterways Museum has won ITV’s People’s Millions to transform a derelict allotment click here to see
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The Yorkshire Waterways Museum offers an extensive collection which tells the story of the Port of Goole, the transportation of coal, the lives of barge families, and the boat building tradition of our ancestors. The economic and social purpose of the Museum is to be an attraction and archive for visitors and to offer friendship, dignity and training to disadvantaged people to enable them to gain the skills and confidence to be economically and socially active. The emphasis is on team-work organised to meet the expectations of visitors.
Registered in 1995 and extended in 2001, The Yorkshire Waterways Museum celebrates the social and economic history of the canal port of Goole and its associated compartment boats and hoists, and present day links with the Humber, Europe and the Yorkshire river and canal network. More than 7000 documents, photographs and artefacts comprise a Collection and Archive whose largest object is the working Tom Pudding tug Wheldale.
The Yorkshire Waterways Museum plans to improve the heritage value of the existing collection by conserving and interpreting large objects which have not yet been part of the current public displays. An application to Heritage Lottery Fund is being developed to raise money for the improvements. As a part of the application planning process, the public are being asked to tell us what they would like to see at the Yorkshire Waterways Museum and come forward with proposals and ideas. This will ensure that the heritage plan meets the needs of the community and provides the audience with a collection and facility that they really want. Please contact us with comments.
Since 1995, the Museum has played a full part in local and sub regional regeneration initiatives. It has been the lead body in several SRB, ESF, ERDF and NOF partnerships which have benefited Goole and its environs.
The Museum is unique in Yorkshire and complements the interests of the three other major waterway museums in the UK, at Gloucester, Ellesmere Port and Stoke Bruerne respectively. It occupies an attractive site between two historic waterways, the River Don (or Dutch River) which flows into the Yorkshire Ouse, and the Aire & Calder Navigation which provides canal access to Goole Docks from the south and west. There is good access to boats, site and Museum.