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Captain Cook Memorial Museum
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Captain Cook Memorial Museum
Grape Lane
Whitby
YO22 4BA
North Yorkshire
England
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Collection details
Maritime
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Facilities
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Guided Tours are available for organised groups, schools, students or adults. French, German and Spanish speakers are available for Groups by prior arrangement
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Contact details
General information (Tel)
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01947 601900
General information (Fax)
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01947 601900
E-mail
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cookmuseum@tiscali.co.uk
Website
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www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk
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Open
March: daily, 1100 - 1500
1 April to 31 October: daily, 0945 - 1700
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Closed
November - February (except for Groups by prior arrangement)
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Admission charges
Adults: £4.00
Children: £3.00
OAPs: £3.50
Family: £10.50
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Description
The Museum is in the Grade-1-listed, 17c house on Whitby's harbourside which belonged to Captain John Walker. In 1746 the young Cook came here as Walker's apprentice. When not at sea he lodged with the other apprentices in the attic - still preserved. The Museum houses a rich collection, artefacts from the Voyages, original letters of the period, some in Cook's own hand, paintings - Parry's Omai, Gainsborough, Hodges.
Every year the Museum stages a special exhibition in the attic. The exhibition for 2008 is: ‘Smoking Coasts and ice-bound Seas, Cook's Voyage to the Arctic’. The North West Passage was the purpose of Cook's third Voyage. The exhibition tells the story of how his ships probed twice beyond the Bering Straits before being forced back by the pack-ice, and how, on a second attempt, they stopped at Kamchatka in eastern Siberia, where they met with Russians and native peoples, travelled for the first time on a dog sled, and experienced a volcanic eruption.
The Museum has recently acquired a group of six drawings of natives of Kamchatka by John Webber, the artist of the third Voyage. With these and other pictures drawn at the time, the Museum explores the surprising story of this little known part of Cook's voyages. The exhibition is supported by the Heritsge Lottery Fund.
For details see 'exhibitions' or the Museum's web site.
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Collections description
The Museum celebrates Cook's Whitby years and his later achievements. The collection includes period rooms restored faithfully following an inventory of 1752, models, maps and manuscripts, ship plans, artefacts from the Voyages, and many fine original paintings, drawings and prints.
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Key artists and exhibits
Captain Cook; original letters
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Sir Joseph Banks ; documents
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Gainsborough; Lord Sandwich
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William Hodges; Madeira
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John Russell; Captain Bligh of the Bounty and his wife
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William Parry: Group Portrait of Omai, Joseph Banks and Dr Solander
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Johann Forster; desk, and letters
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John Webber; 3rd Voyage drawings
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Exploration; Australia, New Zealand, Canada
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The Antarctic
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Maritime History - dockyards and plans
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Endeavour; ship plan
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Resolution; ship model
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Ethnography - the Pacific
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Whitby; 18c watercolours, John Bird
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Articles
Whitby Acquires Drawings Of Kamchatkans From Cook's Last Voyage
News In Brief - Week Ending March 4 2007
News In Brief - Week Ending January 21 2007
Looking After The Rural Museums Of North Yorkshire
MGM 2003 - Boys At Sea At The Captain Cook Memorial Museum
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Events
'Smoking Coasts and ice-bound Seas, Cook's Voyage to the Arctic' at Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby
Exhibition
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Available resources
Guided Tour for School Parties
; Resouce pack; Teachers' pack; Visit
Teachers' Resource Pack
; Resouce pack; Teachers' pack; Worksheet
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General Information
Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
Pre-booking service for groups
Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
Guided tours
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Collections
General guide to collections available
Specialist publications on collections available
Object identification and/or written enquiry service
Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
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Disability Access
Induction loops in lecture theatres
Large print information and/or interpretation
Toilets for disabled
Wheelchair access to some public areas
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Children and Families
Events and resources for children and families
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General Education
CD-ROM guide available
Education facilities available
Member of staff available with responsibility for education
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Schools Education
Primary school education service available
Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
Secondary school education service available
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Facilities
Library
Meeting room available
Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
Research facilities for academics
Shop
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Copyright © 24 Hour Museum
Information published here was believed to be correct at the time it was prepared. Welsh language pages developed with CYMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.
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