York Castle Museum

York Castle Museum

Established	1938
Location	York, England
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Director	Janet Barnes, York Museums Trust
Website	[1]

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Raindale Mill, York Castle Museum

York Castle Museum is a museum located in York, North Yorkshire, England, on the site of York Castle, originally built by William the Conqueror in 1068. The museum itself was founded by Dr John L. Kirk in 1938, and is housed in prison buildings which were built on the site of the castle in the 18th century, the Debtors Prison (built in 1701–05 using stone from the ruins of the castle) and the Female Prison (built 1780–85).

Galleries

• Kirkgate – a recreated Victorian Street, named after the museum's founder – was redeveloped and expanded in 2012.
• Toy Stories – a history of children's toys.
• Recreated period rooms including a Victorian parlour and a 17th-century dining room.
• The Cells – a display about life in the prison – was opened in 2009 in the cells of the old Debtors Prison. The former Condemned Cell, possibly once occupied by Dick Turpin, can also be visited.
• 1914: When the World Changed Forever – opened in 2014 to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.

Raindale Mill

Raindale Mill is a reconstructed early-19th-century flour mill which was moved from the North York Moors to the grounds of York Castle Museum in the 1960s.

See also

• Yorkshire Museum
• Raindale Mill
• York Art Gallery
• Treasurer's House
• Fairfax House
• Victorian era

External links

• York Castle Museum
• York Castle Prison
• York Castle Museum on History of York
• The Debtor's Prison on English Heritage Pastscape
• The Female's Prison on English Heritage Pastscape