The East Riding museums service consists of a team of museum professionals and supporting staff within East Riding of Yorkshire Council. The team is made up of community partners, volunteers and creative specialists with the aim of helping people to enjoy and engage with the heritage of the East Riding.
The museums service is also custodian of several iconic and historically important East Riding buildings including Skidby Mill, Sewerby Hall and the Beverley Guildhall.
We also offer advice and support to ten of the independent museums of the East Riding who are important providers of local heritage services.
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Yes, our aim is to safeguard and present our local cultural heritage for present and future generations, in order to enrich their lives and develop a sense of personal and community identity.
We do this by interpreting the collections, researching the wider heritage of the East Riding and facilitating access to a broad cultural experience through a programme of exhibitions and events.
We also seek to co-align our services with the museum services of neighbouring local authorities with which we often share audiences and collection specialisms.
We provide this service within a budget approved by the council, supplemented by external funding and donations and in line with national museum guidelines, for the residents of and visitors to the East Riding of Yorkshire and to the global community through the world wide web.
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The East Riding Museums Service is accredited by the Arts Council England for the standards of our collection care, visitor services, and financial planning. Visit the accreditation page of the Arts Council England website for more information.
Arts Council England (external website)
Our collections are also documented to standards required by SPECTRUM, the UK Museum Collections Management Standard, maintained by the Collections Trust on behalf of UK museums.
Visit the Collections Trust website to find out more about SPECTRUM.
Collections Trust (external website)
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Yes we can offer talks on:
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the historical landscape of the East Riding;
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the East Riding museums service;
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the Development of Sewerby Hall – an architectural history;
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Country House Patronage – how elite patrons sponsored the building of churches, stained glass windows, philanthropic acts of charity etc;
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domestic life and costume;
Lectures on:
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John Edward Champney and the Beverley Art Gallery;
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Artists & Adventurers: Major Stewart’s Watercolour Collection;
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Blood, Thunder & High Society: the Strickland-Constable archive;
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Conflict & Purpose: Lady Jessica and Sir Tatton Sykes;
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The Mistresses of Burton Constable Hall;
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Sculpture of Hull and the East Riding;
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A curator’s introduction to Fred Elwell and the collections at Beverley Art Gallery;
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also a ‘Behind the Scenes tour of Beverley Art Gallery’.
For further details please use our general enquiry form on the right-hand side of the page.
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