Bay Museum is a registered charity run entirely by volunteers. The museum is situated in the attractive old fishing village of Robin Hoods Bay on the beautiful coastline of North Yorkshire. Originally one of many 17th or 18th century cottages in the village our building was converted to a Coroner's Room and Mortuary by the local vicar in 1891. (It is suggested that he was fed up of drowned seamen being brought to the. vicarage!). In the early 1900s the building was used as a local Reading Room and what we would today call a community centre.
With the building of a new village hall and the introduction of public libraries the old Reading Room became redundant and in 1980 a newly formed Museum Trust organised its first exhibition of local artefacts in the old coroners room, Bay Museum was established!
Today the three small rooms display a collection of items collected from within the local parish and covering a range of subjects including smuggling, shipwrecks, fishing, coast erosion and much more.
Come in to discover how the village got its name, see a rare Bay half penny dated 1669, see what the local smuggler lady is hiding under her skirts! and admire the huge banner which one belonged to one of several local Friendly Societies.
Visit the web site to find out more and check opening times.
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