List of museums in West Yorkshire explained

This list of museums in West Yorkshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, 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 online (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

Name	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
			History	Victorian-period street scenes with shops and house displays,
			Multiple	website, local history, natural history, decorative arts from India, China, Africa and Japan, and an Ancient Egyptian exhibition
			Multiple	Historic house museum, includes Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum, textiles, toys and local history exhibits
Batley Art Gallery	Batley	Kirklees	Art	website, changing exhibitions of art, mainly by local artists and societies
			Historic house	14th-century manor home reflecting five centuries of family life
		City of Bradford	Natural history	Natural history, archaeology, geology, local history, nature centre and children's environmental education programs
		City of Bradford	Industry	Features relics of local industry, especially printing and textile machinery, kept in working condition for regular demonstrations to the public, also vehicles including classic cars, motor bikes, bicycles, buses, trams and a locomotive
		City of Leeds	Historic house	Early-18th-century Baroque mansion
		City of Bradford	Biographical
Bullecourt Museum		Kirklees	Military	information, military artefacts
		Calderdale	Industrial	Industrial heritage
	Bradford	City of Bradford	Art	Civic art gallery, collection includes Victorian and Edwardian works, Old Masters, 20th-century British painters and sculptors, Asian art and textiles
		City of Wakefield	Local	website, history of Castleford, from the Bronze Age to the modern day; local library below
		City of Bradford	Multiple	19th-century Victorian, neo-Gothic castle with period rooms, exhibits of local history, natural history, geology, crafts and trades, archaeology, Ancient Egypt, stained glass, costumes, local pottery
		Kirklees	Industry	Three converted 19th-century weaver's cottages with 1850s weaving equipment and period rooms
		City of Bradford	Education	Visual displays and exhibits showing how the eyes perceive colour, visitors need to pre-book
David Brown Tractor Club Museum		Kirklees	Agriculture	website, David Brown tractors and memorabilia
		Calderdale	Art	Former 19th-century carpet factory and mill buildings now housing art galleries, a theatre and music spaces, as well as offices
		Kirklees	Transportation	website, preserved bus and coach collection, displayed on open days and events. School visits available
	Dewsbury	Kirklees	Religious	website, heritage centre exhibits about the church's history
		City of Bradford	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century manor house, gardens
	Halifax	Calderdale	Children's	Focus on play based learning and informal learning experiences
Fulneck Moravian Museum		City of Leeds	Ethnic	website, Moravian memorabilia, embroidery and crafts, Victorian parlour and kitchen, historic local artefacts, 1822 hand-pulled fire engine
Gallery II	Bradford	City of Bradford	Art	website, contemporary art gallery of the University of Bradford
Gissing Centre		City of Wakefield	Biographical	website, childhood home and exhibits about novelist George Gissing, operated by the Wakefield Historical Society
		Calderdale	Local	Operated by the National Trust, 19th-century textile mill visitor centre with local history exhibits, located in Hardcastle Crags
		City of Leeds	Historic house	18th-century grand country house designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam, furniture by Thomas Chippendale and grounds by Capability Brown, features a bird garden
		City of Leeds	Art	Sculpture gallery
Heptonstall Museum		Calderdale	Local	information, local history
		City of Wakefield	Art	Art gallery with collection of sculptures by Barbara Hepworth
Horsforth Village Museum		City of Leeds	Local	information, local history
		Kirklees	Art	website, collection focus is 20th-century British art, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture
		City of Bradford	Toy	Toys and dolls dating from 350 BCE to modern times
Ingrow Loco		City of Bradford	Railway	website, collection of locomotives, operated by the Bahamas Locomotive Society
Keighley Police Museum	Keighley	City of Bradford	Law enforcement	website
		City of Bradford	Railway	Heritage railway, Oxenhope railway station features museum of rolling stock, locomotives and artefacts
		City of Leeds	Religious	Ruins of a medieval Cistercian monastery, exhibits on the history of the abbey and the lives of the monks
		Kirklees	Media	website, collection of artefacts about the British television sitcom Last of the Summer Wine
Launds Inn Museum		Kirklees	Historic house	website, restored 14th-century inn with exhibits of local history
		City of Leeds	Art	Collection includes 19th- and 20th-century British Art
	Leeds	City of Leeds	Multiple	Local history, natural history including Leeds Tiger, archaeology from Ancient Greece and Rome, African artefacts
	Leeds	City of Leeds	Art	Presents many contemporary shows each year in two gallery locations
		City of Leeds	Industry	Includes textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering displays
		City of Leeds	Historic house	Country house estate with Victorian and Edwardian interior and decorative arts, costume collection, formal and wildflower gardens, wooded grounds, a red deer park and a bird garden
		City of Bradford	Local	Local history, archaeology, art exhibits
		City of Wakefield	Medical	History and artefacts from the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum
		City of Leeds	Railway	Heritage railway and shed with locomotives and rolling stock
		City of Bradford	Railway	Historic railway carriages and artefacts
Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine	Leeds	City of Leeds	Education	website, part of the University of Leeds, teaching materials, history of education and teaching methods
		City of Wakefield	Mining	Former coal mine with underground tours
	Bradford	City of Bradford	Media	Photography, cinema, television, animation, advertising, and related technology and artefacts
		City of Wakefield	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century Palladian house with interiors by Robert Adam, collection of Chippendale furniture, 18th-century dolls' house, 300acres of parkland
		Kirklees	Historic house	Elizabethan manor house and period gardens
		City of Leeds	Local	Local history
	Bradford	City of Bradford	Peace	History and development of peace, non-violence and conflict resolution
		City of Wakefield	Local	Local history, mining, culture, archaeology,
		Kirklees	Historic house	1830s cloth merchant's home with Brontë connections
	Leeds	City of Leeds	Military	Armour, swords, spears, warfare from ancient to modern times
		City of Bradford	Art	19th-century textile mill now housing the 1853 Gallery with works by David Hockney, Gallery 2 with a collection of Saltaire paintings and drawings, and the Saltaire Exhibition with local history exhibits
		Calderdale	Historic house	15th-century timber-framed house, park include West Yorkshire Folk Museum with rural life displays
		Calderdale	Art	website, permanent exhibition of Victorian paintings, changing exhibits of local and regional artists
		Kirklees	Transportation	Construction of the Standedge Tunnels and the history and life along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal
	Leeds	City of Leeds	Art	website, part of the University of Leeds, collection includes European and British painting, drawings and prints, dating from the 17th century up to the present day
	Leeds	City of Leeds	Art	website, centre for contemporary art and learning, located in the former headquarters building for Tetley's Brewery, includes the Tetley Collection with relics from the brewery's past
	Leeds	City of Leeds	Historic house	Tudor-Jacobean house with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, working rare breeds farm, collections of fine and decorative arts, especially paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles and wallpapers
	Leeds	City of Leeds	Medical	History of medicine, including Victorian treatments and patients, childbirth, surgery
	Leeds	City of Leeds	Industry	Fully restored working water-powered textile mill and associated buildings
Todmorden Toy & Model Museum		Calderdale	Toy	information, shop and museum, includes toys, model trains
		Kirklees	Multiple	Local history, natural history, transportation, textiles, archaeology
		City of Wakefield	Multiple	Local history, culture, natural history collections of Charles Waterton
		Kirklees	Art	website, printmaking and crafts art centre with gallery
		City of Wakefield	Art	Changing exhibits of sculpture, both outdoors and indoors

Defunct museums

Clarke Hall, Wakefield, 17th-century country house and gardens, closed in 2012^[1]
Harmonium Museum, Saltaire, collection of reed organs and harmoniums, closed in 2011^[2]
Keighley Private Classic Car Museum, Keighley, also known as Yorkshire Car Collection^[3] ^[4]
Rugby League Heritage Centre, Huddersfield, closed in 2013 due to sale of building, seeking new location
Transperience, Low Moor, Bradford, closed in 1997
Wakefield Art Gallery, closed March 2009, collections moving to the Hepworth Wakefield^[5]
Yorkshire Motor Museum, also known as Scopos Mills Motor Museum, Batley, closed in 2010^[6]

Notes and References

Web site: Clarke Hall to close for good. Wakefield Express. 21 March 2015. September 4, 2012.
Web site: Official site. Harmonium Museum at Saltaire. 21 March 2015. As per December 1, 2011: "Owing to the closure of the Museum, there is no longer a Harmonium Museum in England. However, there is a VIRTUAL museum..
Web site: Keighley Private Classic Car Museum West Yorkshire Filmed In The 90's. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/OYnh7Lj95Fc . 2021-12-15 . live. YouTube. 21 March 2015.
Web site: Famous car collection under the hammer. Craven Herald and Pioneer. 21 March 2015. April 27, 2007.
Web site: Archived copy . 2010-07-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100707132423/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/Galleries/WakefieldArtGallery/default.htm . 2010-07-07 .
Web site: Batley's Yorkshire Motor Museum to shut next year. Daily Huddersfield Examiner. 21 March 2015. November 2, 2009.