Experience the National Coal Mining Museum, the site of two former working coal mines!
Find out about the story of coal and how it changed our nati...
Visit Wakefield Museum to discover the fascinating history of the city at work and play! Follow our growth to the capital of Yorkshire’s West Riding...
Explore 15,000 years of local history at Castleford Museum! See amazing objects left behind by prehistoric tribes and Roman soldiers. Find out how coal mi...
Visit Pontefract Museum and learn all abo...
The Mental Health Museum will close for collections work at 4pm on Thursday 18th December and will reopen at 1pm on Tuesday 3rd March 2026.
Contained within the only remaining habitable part of Pontefract Castle is an ext...
Visit Wakefield Museums & Castles’ museum hub located in Featherstone Library
Visit Wakefield Museums & Castles’ museum hub located in the South Elmsall Library to see changing displays celebrating local stories from the South E...
Ossett Library is home to Wakefield Museums & Castles’ newest museum hub. Changing displays will celebrate what local people love about Ossett.