This list of museums in South Yorkshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
Name Image Town/City Region Type Notes Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Sheffield Sheffield Industry Historic steel and iron-working site with living history enactors Alfred Denny Museum Sheffield Sheffield Natural history biology specimens, part of the University of Sheffield, open monthly for guided tours only Bank Street Arts Sheffield Sheffield Art Contemporary arts centre Bishops' House Sheffield Sheffield Historic house Early 16th century half-timbered house, exhibitions on life in the 16th and 17th centuries with two rooms decorated in Jacobean style Brodsworth Hall Brodsworth Doncaster Historic house Operated by English Heritage, Victorian country house, features late 19th to late 20th century interiors, 1860s gardens Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens Cawthorne Barnsley Multiple 17th-century country house, includes collections of fine furniture, paintings, ceramics and glassware, houses the Regimental Museum of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and the Light Dragoons Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum Cawthorne Barnsley Local information, local history, culture, agriculture The Civic, Barnsley Barnsley Barnsley Art performing arts centre with art gallery Clifton Park and Museum Rotherham Rotherham Multiple Local history, archaeology, Victorian period kitchen, toys, Rockingham Pottery, antiquities, natural and social history, York and Lancaster Regiment artefacts and memorabilia Conisbrough Castle Doncaster Doncaster Historic house Operated by English Heritage, restored medieval castle keep and medieval life exhibits Cooper Gallery Barnsley Barnsley Art contemporary art exhibits, collection of 17th- to 20th-century paintings, watercolours and drawings Cusworth Hall Cusworth Doncaster Historic house Restored 18th-century country house with local history exhibits Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery Doncaster Doncaster Multiple Natural history, archaeology, local history, fine and decorative art, pottery in Yorkshire Elsecar Heritage Centre Elsecar Barnsley Industry Early industrial and mining village, exhibits on local history and industry and a Newcomen beam engine, buildings house an antiques centre, craft shops, Elsecar Heritage Railway Experience Barnsley Barnsley Barnsley Local Local social history and archaeology, archives centre and changing exhibitions Graves Art Gallery Sheffield Sheffield Art Collections of 19th- and 20th-century British and European art Kelham Island Museum Sheffield Sheffield Industry Local industries including steelmaking, steam engines, Sheffield-made vehicles of the 1920s Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum Doncaster Doncaster Military History and memorabilia of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, located in the same building as Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery Magna Science Adventure Centre Templeborough Rotherham Science Located in a former steelworks, hands-on exhibits about earth, air, fire, water, power, steel-making Maurice Dobson Museum Darfield Barnsley Local local history Millennium Gallery Sheffield Sheffield Art Exhibits of historic and contemporary art and crafts National Emergency Services Museum Sheffield Sheffield Multiple Historic fire and police station with equipment, vehicles, uniforms, artifacts, local history displaysNational Videogame MuseumSheffieldSheffieldTechnologyA unique museum where you can play, explore and create videogames. Moved from Nottingham in December 2018, and was renamed from the National Videogame Arcade to the National Videogame Museum.Rotherham Art Gallery Rotherham Rotherham Art S1 Artspace Sheffield Sheffield Art Artist-led organisation with programmes of contemporary exhibitions, commissions, screenings and events Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery Sheffield Sheffield Art Part of Sheffield Hallam University, changing exhibits of art and design Shepherd Wheel Sheffield Sheffield Technology Former water-powered grinding workshop with water wheel, grinding hulls and grinding wheels Site Gallery Sheffield Sheffield Art Changing exhibits of multimedia-based art South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum Doncaster Doncaster Aerospace Occupies the former site of RAF Doncaster, restored and historic aeroplanes South Yorkshire Transport Museum Aldwarke Rotherham Transportation Formerly the Sheffield Bus Museum, history of bus transport in South Yorkshire Turner Museum of Glass Sheffield Sheffield Art Part of the University of Sheffield, 19th and 20th century glass Wentworth Castle Stainborough Barnsley Historic house Early 18th-century castle under restoration, gardens Weston Park Museum Sheffield Sheffield Multiple Art, natural history, archaeology, decorative arts, social history, ethnographic and Inuit artifacts Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country Park Worsbrough Barnsley Mill Features a 17th-century water-powered mill and a 19th-century steam-powered mill Wortley Top Forge Wortley Barnsley Industry Historic former ironworks and water-powered forge Yorkshire ArtSpace Sheffield Sheffield Art Contemporary art exhibits Yorkshire Natural History Museum Sheffield Sheffield Natural History Yorkshire Sculpture Park West Bretton Wakefield Art Open-air gallery on the border of South and West Yorkshire
Defunct museums National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield, closed in 2000 York & Lancaster Regiment Museum, Rotherham, closed in 2011, collections now part of the Clifton Park Museum
See also :Category:Tourist attractions in South Yorkshire
References
External links
South Yorkshire Culture, BBC