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Mini Guide Hull Welcome to a whole lot more going on visithullandeastyorkshire.com visithullandeastyorkshire.com 04 Discover Hull at Your Pace 06 Museums & Attractions Welcome 10 Theatres 12 Shopping A visit to Hull is always the start of a 14 Food and Drink great story. Located on the banks of 16 Ghostly Tales the Rivers Hull and Humber, Hull is a 18 Things To See 20 Open Spaces city steeped in history and culture 22 Sport combined with an exciting and 24 Tourist Information eclectic nightlife. A visit provides the 25 Events Listings 26 Nearby Neighbours perfect opportunity to sample all the 28 Hull Map city has to offer including the nearby neighbours of the Yorkshire Wolds and the stunning East Yorkshire coastline. Why not come and see what the region has to offer? Keep up to date with new & exciting events, festivals and much more in the region... Promoting tourism Follow Hull and Have a smart in partnership with phone? Scan the East Yorkshire QR code to find Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of information contained in this twitter.com/vhey_uk out more info. guide, VHEY, East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull City Council can accept no responsibility for facebook.com/Visit.hullandeastyorkshire any errors or omissions, nor any consequence arising from the use of the information. 02 Hull Mini Guide Hull Mini Guide 03 visithullandeastyorkshire.com visithullandeastyorkshire.com Learn about Hull’s history and entrance hall and see how architecture and explore the interiors would have been in Old Town with tour guide, buildings during Hull's Paul Schofield, or just wander trading heyday. around with one of the free The River Hull walkway, maps available from the which runs behind the Tourist Information Centre. buildings on High Street and Follow the fishes on follows the banks of the river, The Seven Seas Fish Trail. is where the earliest settlers Starting outside the Tourist lived and moored their boats. Information Centre are 41 You can follow the river to the unique pavement sculptures picturesque Marina which of life size representations of houses numerous yachts and all kinds of fish, from a tiny small sailing craft. Walk anchovy to a 10ft ray. Obtain around the Marina to Victoria a free map and follow the trail Pier where the Ferry used to through the historic Old Town go to the South Bank before - great fun for all the family. the Humber Bridge was built. Walk along the cobbled Corporation Pier opened in High Street in the Old Town, 1847 but was renamed which was once the medieval Victoria Pier in 1854 after hub of the city, where quaint Queen Victoria left from this old buildings and olde-world port following her visit to Hull. Discover Hull pubs have stood for years Finally, just a short distance and four museums bring from the Marina and the history back to life in the Museums Quarter, no trip at your pace Museums Quarter. Set to Hull would be complete around beautiful gardens, the without a visit to The Deep. The best way to explore the museums offer a fantastic There are thousands of fish day out for all the family. and sea creatures on show city and learn of Hull’s heritage Also on High Street in Hull is including spectacular sharks the fine merchant’s house, and rays - watch the sharks in an exciting and interesting Maister House which was being fed every day! The way is to walk the routes or rebuilt in 1743. Owned by the Deep’s a great place to National Trust visitors can keep the kids amused trails around it. view the staircase and for several hours. 4 Hull Mini Guide Hull Mini Guide 5 visithullandeastyorkshire.com visithullandeastyorkshire.com Hands On History Museum Museums South Church Side Tel: 01482 300300 & Attractions Situated in the old Grammar School which is a listed building Hull is home to many free museums, mostly situated in the Old where William Wilberforce Town and centre of Hull. The museums regularly host events studied, the museum houses the and exhibitions, so there’s always something new to discover. story of Hull and its people. Hands (All opening times correct at time of going to press.) on History includes a fascinating glimpse into Victorian times and also features an Egyptian Gallery Arctic Corsair with a genuine 2,600 year old Rear of Streetlife Museum, mummy and unique replicas of High Street King Tutankhamun’s treasures. Tel: 01482 300300 Open: Please check website for up to date opening times. Moored on the River Hull is Hull’s Admission: Free last sidewinder trawler. Now a museum, you can join the crew and learn about deep sea fishing and the treacherous sea. Open: Please check website for up to Hull & East Riding Museum date opening times. Admission: Free 36 High Street Tel: 01482 300300 This museum of archaeology is The Deep the place to see a horde of Viking Tower Street treasure, walk through an Iron Age Tel: 01482 381000 village, enter a Roman bath house and see a majestic mammoth. Hull’s award-winning aquarium is the world’s only submarium and Open: Please check website for up to date opening times. Europe’s deepest viewing tunnel! The spectacular building is home to over Admission: Free 3,500 fish including sharks and rays. Open: 10am-6pm daily except 24-25 Dec. Admission: £10.50 adult, £8.50 child Hull History Centre Worship Street Dinostar - The Dinosaur Experience Tel: 01482 317500 28-29 Humber Street The City and University of Hull Tel: 01482 320424 have united their archive and local studies collections under one roof Visit Hull’s interactive dinosaur museum. in a pioneering partnership. Visit See a fascinating collection of dinosaur the Centre for education, research exhibits - touch Triceratops bones, see or just to enjoy discovering about a T-Rex skull and hear a Raptor roar! local history. Kid’s workshops feature interactive, Open: Please check website for up to hands-on sessions. date opening times. Open: 11am - 5pm Admission: Free Sundays and School Holidays only. Admission: £3 adult, £1.50 child/senior citizen 6 Hull Mini Guide Hull Mini Guide 7 visithullandeastyorkshire.com visithullandeastyorkshire.com Hull Maritime Museum Wilberforce House Queen Victoria Square 23-25 High Street Tel: 01482 300300 Tel: 01482 300300 Situated in the old Dock Offices Being the birthplace of William of Hull, the Museum tells the story Wilberforce, famous campaigner of the town’s maritime heritage. against the slave trade, the museum Discover the whaler’s craft of tells the story of the transatlantic Scrimshaw and see a full sized slave trade and its abolition, as well whale skeleton alongside superb as the impact of contemporary ship models and stunning artefacts. slavery. The permanent displays Open: Please check website for up to include journals and items that date opening times. belonged to Wilberforce. Admission: Free Open: Please check website for up to date opening times. Admission: Free Spurn Lightship Hull Marina, Castle Street Ferens Art Gallery Tel: 01482 300300 For almost 50 years the Spurn Queen Victoria Square Lightship guided ships safely Tel: 01482 300300 through the treacherous River The gallery's permanent collection Humber. Having recently been of paintings and sculpture spans refurbished it is a great place to artistic periods from medieval discover what life onboard was times to the present day. There’s a like and how it was used as a regular programme of events, navigational aid. guided tours and changing Open: Please check website for up to exhibitions, so there’s always date opening times. something new to explore. Admission: Free Open: Please check website for up to date opening times. Admission: Free Streetlife Museum of Transport High Street Red Gallery Tel: 01482 300300 19 Osborne Street Experience some of the first modes of transport. Board a tram, www.red-gallery.com enjoy the pleasures of a carriage RED opened in 1997 and provides ride and walk down a 1940’s high Hull with an independent exhibition street, with all the sights, sounds space and 'laboratory' for and smells of the past. contemporary art. RED is a non- Open: Please check website for up to profit making initiative, run date opening times. collectively by a small group of Admission: Free local artists. Visit their website for details of exhibitions. 8 Hull Mini Guide Hull Mini Guide 9 visithullandeastyorkshire.com visithullandeastyorkshire.com Theatres Let Hull For those looking for culture and entertainment, the city has several theatres with regularly Entertain You! changing shows and events to enjoy. Hull New Theatre If you’re looking for culture or a Kingston Square night’s entertainment during your Tel: 01482 226655 www.hullcc.gov.uk/hullnewtheatre stay, look no further than the Features the best in musicals, opera, exceptional theatres available in ballet, drama, children's shows and Hull city centre. one night performances, with a highlight of the year being the annual Hull offers theatre goers a venue. In 2009 it was spectacular Christmas pantomime. wide mix of venues and rehoused in a £14.5M new events. If you want to see building on Ferensway and Hull Truck Theatre some of the musicals and the new 440 seat theatre classic shows that have still retains the intimate 50 Ferensway graced the West End visit style and charm of the Tel: 01482 323638 Hull New Theatre. The original. Its productions www.hulltruck.co.uk theatre regularly hosts regularly tour around the dramas and musicals country. Watch the latest plays and stand featuring well known actors up comedy in one of the country’s Fruit, Hull’s newest venue is and household names as leading production theatres.