Goole Museum & Art Gallery

About

Goole Museum is on the 1st floor above Goole Library in the town centre. The permanent exhibition interprets the local and social history of the town and prot of Goole, and includes a Shipwall containing Builders scale models of ships built in the port by Goole Ship Builders and Repairers, including Sir Malcolm Campbell's yacht, Bluebird. There are also reconstructions of the Aire & Calder diver inspecting the base of the dock wall, a Goole hair-dressers salon and a 1950s boys bedroom. There is also a range of hands on activities for children.

The temporary exhibition gallery has a changing programme of (on average) 10 exhibitions a year, relating to art, craft and aspects of local social history drawn from the museum's collections.

Goole museum has the largest collection of marine portraits by Goole-born artist Reuben Chappell outside a National collection, as well as ship portraits by other Pierhead Painters There are also good collections of local historic photographs costume and other social history items.

From the Museum it is a short walk to the banks of the River Ouse looking across to the reed beds of the windfowl sanctuary. The entrance to the pedestrian walkway through Goole Docks a busy commercial port is in nearby Aire Street.

Accredited museum, museums, libraries and archives council.