FEATURE MUSEUMS History in the making The Museums Partnership is blessed with wonderful The Humber Museums Partnership consists of the museums services of Hull, North Lincolnshire and the East Riding. It museums and galleries was formed in 2014 to develop collaborative working for the purpose of delivering better services to the public and is an Arts Council of (ACE) Major Partnership Museum. Hull Maritime The three museums services of the Humber Museums 1 Museum Partnership hold extensive collections of art, archaeology, Explore Hull’s old Dock Offices social history, rural history, oral history, maritime history and find out what made Hull the city it is today. Discover superb and world cultures. We work together to promote the ship models, maritime art, the heritage of the Humber region and the wider world. whaler’s craft of scrimshaw and Further information about all of the Humber Museums Hull’s famous Wilson shipping Partnerships sites and our ACE funded families and line. under-fives projects can be found at on our website at The museum is housed in the www.humbermuseums.com Victorian Dock Offices in Queen You can also follow us and on social media to keep fully Victoria Square. These nautical informed of our forthcoming exhibitions and events: themed offices were designed by Facebook: www.facebook.com/humber museums Christopher G Wray and 1 Twitter: twitter.com/HumberMuseums originally opened in 1871. It now displays Hull’s maritime activities from the late 18th century to present. See a whale skeleton, have fun with our family trail and dressing- admission 30 minutes prior to up corner and see a wealth of closure. Admission is free. unique and fascinating artefacts. For more information, visit: Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday, http://humbermuseums.com/ Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 10am-5pm. Thursday 10am-7.30pm museum-hull/hull-maritime- Sunday 11am 4.30pm. Last museum/

The Humber Museums Partnership Framed Virtual Reality Museum Humber Museums Partnership have adopted virtual space, which has the ten selected the power of Virtual Reality and developed items on display. Users can interact with their first, virtual museum app as we these items and discover more about each experiment with new ways to embrace 21st piece. Those who already own Virtual Reality century technology. The app, built in headsets can experience the virtual museum collaboration with Northern advertising by downloading the Framed Virtual agency yesyesBD, brings together objects Museum app on the Google Play Store selected from across East Riding of or via the Apple App Store. , North Lincolnshire and Hull, and It is hoped the use of this allows them to be viewed in one space. immersive technology and the The move comes as part of our “Framed” development of an project, which features 100 objects from innovative museum museums across the Humber region and experience will presents them using a variety of mediums. encourage a younger, These include Virtual Reality, Billboards, more diverse audience Buses and Social Platforms. Out of the 100 to visit the region's objects in the Framed collection, ten items museum sites. were selected by museum curators to be For more information: included in the Virtual Reality Experience. http://humbermuseums.com/ The Virtual Museum, which is accessed frmd/ and our Framed Virtual using a cardboard headset and a mobile Museum can be downloaded for free phone app, allows users to explore the from Google Play Store and App Store.

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The Humber Museums Partnership is proud to present our latest partnership project, The Humber 250 trail. 3 Our Humber 250 trail is a fantastic opportunity for people visiting Hull for City of Culture to explore the fascinating heritage of the wider Humber region. Whether travelling by car or bicycle the Humber 250 trail introduces you to the lands cut through by the Humber and to histories of the peoples who have lived here. The river Humber has long shaped the lives of people who live along its shores, in the , Hull and in North Lincolnshire, encouraging 7.30pm; Sunday 11am-4.30pm. Last trade and contact with the admission 30 minutes prior to wider world, acting as closure. Admission is free. boundary and border between Streetlife For more information, visit north and south. 2 Museum http://humbermuseums.com/ The trail leads around many Step back in time with 200 years of museum-hull/ferens-art-gallery/ of the rural and urban points of transport history and experience interest in the Humber region, the sights, sounds and smells of Hull and East featuring a rich blend of over the past. Walk down a 1940s high Riding Museum 70 heritage and natural history street, board a goods train and 4 Enter a world where 235 million sites, ranging from Museums enjoy a carriage ride or vintage years of history is brought to life. and Galleries, Historic Houses car ride. It is great forafamily Come face to face with a woolly and gardens, Industrial and day out. Wartime Heritage, and mammoth, encounter a See veteran cars, trams, our Archaeology and Architecture. 4 mysterious crew of wooden bicycle gallery, street scene gallery The Humber 250 trail guide is warriors and discover a unique and experience our carriage ride. available as a leaflet from the Iron Age sword. Opening Hours: Monday to regions tourist information Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday 11am- opened in 1927, restored and From majestic mammoths to centres, and our website, 4.30pm. Last admission 30 minutes extended in 1991 and has recently Saxon invaders, visitors to the Humbermuseums.com where a prior to closure. Admission is free. undergone extensive Hull and East Riding museum of free downloadable mobile archaeology can look forward to For more information, visit . refurbishment. phone app is also available for http://humbermuseums.com/ Following its reopening this an experience that is unique, free from both Google Play and museum-hull/streetlife-museum/ year, visitors can now enjoy Pietro educational and fun. See Roman App Store. Lorenzetti’s stunning panel mosaics; discover dinosaur bones For ease and convenience the Ferens Art painting Christ between Saints and Anglo-Saxon treasure. trail route has been split into 3 Gallery Paul and Peter (c.1320), and Opening Hours: Monday to three sections and the sites Discover outstanding art exhibitions such as The Turner Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday listed, with step by step collections and enjoy vibrant Prize, Offshore, and Skin which 11am-4.30pm. Last admission 30 directions between them which temporary exhibitions in this features works by Freud, Mueck minutes prior to closure. Admission can be downloaded or printed. atmospheric gallery. Your trip can and Tunick. is free. So whether you are visiting Visit our newly refurbished 12 be rounded off by relaxing in the For more information, visit Hull for City of Culture, or galleries, children’s gallery café. http://humbermuseums.com/ fancy a scenic tour of the exhibitions and children’s The site and money for the museum-hull/hull-and-east- region and its treasures you interactive gallery and café. gallery were donated to the city by riding-museum/ can find more information at Thomas Ferens, after whom it is Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday, http://humbermuseums. named. The architects were SN Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, Continued on page 28 com/humber250/ Cooke and EC Davies. It was 10am-5pm; Thursday 10am-

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Hands On History 5 Museum Explore one of Hull’s oldest buildings, which first opened its doors as the Grammar School in 1585 and is now the Hands on History Museum. Included in the museum is the Famous pupils included 17th- history of the East Yorkshire century poet Andrew Marvell and Regiment. A fascinating museum 18th-century slavery abolitionist for visitors to explore. . Opening Hours: Saturday, The Tudor structure with its 10am-5pm; Sunday 11am-4.30pm. original brickwork and mullioned Last admission 15 minutes prior to windows is now a listed building. closure. Admission is free. Hands on History is also partly For more information, visit housed in the adjoining Fish http://humbermuseums.com/ Street Day School, which was built museum-hull/wilberforce-house- as a charity school in 1871 but museum/ soon afterwards became a Board School. Arctic The ground floor offers a 7 Corsair fascinating glimpse into Victorian Climb aboard Hull’s last childhood with a themed hands-on sidewinder trawler and let the interactive exhibition that crew take you on a guided tour to includes a Victorian school room. hear about life at sea and the The first floor explores local danger deep-sea trawlermen faced history in the The Story of Hull 7 in the Icelandic fishing grounds. and its People gallery and is also The Arctic Corsair is the type of home to our Ancient Egypt ship that formed the backbone of exhibition, where you can see a the city’s deep-sea fishing fleet. 2,600-year-old Egyptian mummy In 1973, the Arctic Corsair broke costume. The museum tells the the world record for landing of and unique replicas of King Museum story of the transatlantic slave cod and haddock from the White Tutankhamun’s treasures. 6 Visit the birthplace of William trade and its abolition, explores Sea. Opening Hours: Noon to 4pm on West African cultures and Wilberforce and discover the story Opening Hours and Disability the second and fourth Saturdays of of the historic struggle to abolish examines global modern day Access: Access by guided tour, each month. Admission is free. the slave trade. The permanent slavery. Also within the museum April to October, Wednesday and For more information, visit displays at Wilberforce House is the Georgian Houses which Saturday, 10am-3pm; Sunday, 11am- http://humbermuseums.com/ include journals and items that exhibits clocks, Hull silver and 3pm. Last tour at 3pm subject to museum-hull/hands-on-history- belonged to William Wilberforce, furniture focusing on local availability of volunteer guides. museum/ including his original court craftsmanship in this region. Children must be over six years old

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to board. Call 01482 300300 for navigational aid and find out information about the level of what life was like on board. disabled access. Admission is free. An interpretation panel at the For more information, visit marina explains its history and http://humbermuseums.com/ layout for visitors when the ship is museum-hull/arctic-corsair/ closed. No age restrictions. Opening hours: Sunday, The Spurn 11am-4.30pm. Call 01482 300300 8 Lightship for opening details or for Step aboard the , information about the level of which for almost 50 years guided disabled access. ships safely through the For more information, visit: treacherous River Humber. http://humbermuseums.com/ Discover how it was used as a museum-hull/spurn-lightship/

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