# List of museums in West Yorkshire

This list of museums in West Yorkshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only online (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
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| Name | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
| Abbey House Museum | Kirkstall | City of Leeds | History | Victorian-period street scenes with shops and house displays, |
| Bagshaw Museum | Batley | Kirklees | Multiple | website, local history, natural history, decorative arts from India, China, Africa and Japan, and an Ancient Egyptian exhibition |
| Bankfield Museum | Halifax | Calderdale | Multiple | Historic house museum, includes Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum, textiles, toys and local history exhibits |
| Batley Art Gallery | Batley | Kirklees | Art | website, changing exhibitions of art, mainly by local artists and societies |
| Bolling Hall | Bradford | City of Bradford | Historic house | 14th-century manor home reflecting five centuries of family life |
| Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum | Baildon | City of Bradford | Natural history | Natural history, archaeology, geology, local history, nature centre and children's environmental education programs |
| Bradford Industrial Museum | Eccleshill | City of Bradford | Industry | Features relics of local industry, especially printing and textile machinery, kept in working condition for regular demonstrations to the public, also vehicles including classic cars, motor bikes, bicycles, buses, trams and a locomotive |
| Bramham Park | Bramham | City of Leeds | Historic house | Early-18th-century Baroque mansion |
| Brontë Parsonage Museum | Haworth | City of Bradford | Biographical | Lives and novels of the Brontë family |
| Bullecourt Museum | Milnsbridge | Kirklees | Military | information, military artefacts |
| Calderdale Industrial Museum | Halifax | Calderdale | Industrial | Industrial heritage |
| Cartwright Hall | Bradford | City of Bradford | Art | Civic art gallery, collection includes Victorian and Edwardian works, Old Masters, 20th-century British painters and sculptors, Asian art and textiles |
| Castleford Forum Museum | Castleford | City of Wakefield | Local | website, history of Castleford, from the Bronze Age to the modern day; local library below |
| Cliffe Castle Museum | Keighley | City of Bradford | Multiple | 19th-century Victorian, neo-Gothic castle with period rooms, exhibits of local history, natural history, geology, crafts and trades, archaeology, Ancient Egypt, stained glass, costumes, local pottery |
| Colne Valley Museum | Golcar | Kirklees | Industry | Three converted 19th-century weaver's cottages with 1850s weaving equipment and period rooms |
| Colour Experience | Bradford | City of Bradford | Education | Visual displays and exhibits showing how the eyes perceive colour, visitors need to pre-book |
| David Brown Tractor Club Museum | Meltham | Kirklees | Agriculture | website, David Brown tractors and memorabilia |
| Dean Clough | Halifax | Calderdale | Art | Former 19th-century carpet factory and mill buildings now housing art galleries, a theatre and music spaces, as well as offices |
| Dewsbury Bus Museum | Dewsbury | Kirklees | Transportation | website, preserved bus and coach collection, displayed on open days and events. School visits available |
| Dewsbury Minster | Dewsbury | Kirklees | Religious | website, heritage centre exhibits about the church's history |
| East Riddlesden Hall | Keighley | City of Bradford | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century manor house, gardens |
| Eureka! The National Children's Museum | Halifax | Calderdale | Children's | Focus on play based learning and informal learning experiences |
| Fulneck Moravian Museum | Fulneck Moravian Settlement | City of Leeds | Ethnic | website, Moravian memorabilia, embroidery and crafts, Victorian parlour and kitchen, historic local artefacts, 1822 hand-pulled fire engine |
| Gallery II | Bradford | City of Bradford | Art | website, contemporary art gallery of the University of Bradford |
| Gissing Centre | Wakefield | City of Wakefield | Biographical | website, childhood home and exhibits about novelist George Gissing, operated by the Wakefield Historical Society |
| Gibson Mill | Hebden Bridge | Calderdale | Local | Operated by the National Trust, 19th-century textile mill visitor centre with local history exhibits, located in Hardcastle Crags |
| Harewood House | Harewood | City of Leeds | Historic house | 18th-century grand country house designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam, furniture by Thomas Chippendale and grounds by Capability Brown, features a bird garden |
| Henry Moore Institute in Leeds | Leeds | City of Leeds | Art | Sculpture gallery |
| Heptonstall Museum | Heptonstall | Calderdale | Local | information, local history |
| The Hepworth Wakefield | Wakefield | City of Wakefield | Art | Art gallery with collection of sculptures by Barbara Hepworth |
| Horsforth Village Museum | Horsforth | City of Leeds | Local | information, local history |
| Huddersfield Art Gallery | Huddersfield | Kirklees | Art | website, collection focus is 20th-century British art, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture |
| Ilkley Toy Museum | Ilkley | City of Bradford | Toy | Toys and dolls dating from 350 BCE to modern times |
| Ingrow Loco | Ingrow | City of Bradford | Railway | website, collection of locomotives, operated by the Bahamas Locomotive Society |
| Keighley Police Museum | Keighley | City of Bradford | Law enforcement | website |
| Keighley and Worth Valley Railway | Oxenhope | City of Bradford | Railway | Heritage railway, Oxenhope railway station features museum of rolling stock, locomotives and artefacts |
| Kirkstall Abbey | Kirkstall | City of Leeds | Religious | Ruins of a medieval Cistercian monastery, exhibits on the history of the abbey and the lives of the monks |
| Last of The Summer Wine Exhibition | Holmfirth | Kirklees | Media | website, collection of artefacts about the British television sitcom Last of the Summer Wine |
| Launds Inn Museum | Golcar | Kirklees | Historic house | website, restored 14th-century inn with exhibits of local history |
| Leeds Art Gallery | Leeds | City of Leeds | Art | Collection includes 19th- and 20th-century British Art |
| Leeds City Museum | Leeds | City of Leeds | Multiple | Local history, natural history including Leeds Tiger, archaeology from Ancient Greece and Rome, African artefacts |
| Leeds College of Art | Leeds | City of Leeds | Art | Presents many contemporary shows each year in two gallery locations |
| Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills | Armley | City of Leeds | Industry | Includes textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering displays |
| Lotherton Hall | Aberford | City of Leeds | Historic house | Country house estate with Victorian and Edwardian interior and decorative arts, costume collection, formal and wildflower gardens, wooded grounds, a red deer park and a bird garden |
| Manor House Museum | Ilkley | City of Bradford | Local | Local history, archaeology, art exhibits |
| Mental Health Museum | Wakefield | City of Wakefield | Medical | History and artefacts from the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum |
| Middleton Railway Museum | Hunslet | City of Leeds | Railway | Heritage railway and shed with locomotives and rolling stock |
| Museum of Rail Travel | Ingrow | City of Bradford | Railway | Historic railway carriages and artefacts |
| Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine | Leeds | City of Leeds | Education | website, part of the University of Leeds, teaching materials, history of education and teaching methods |
| National Coal Mining Museum for England | Overton | City of Wakefield | Mining | Former coal mine with underground tours |
| National Media Museum | Bradford | City of Bradford | Media | Photography, cinema, television, animation, advertising, and related technology and artefacts |
| Nostell Priory | Nostell | City of Wakefield | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century Palladian house with interiors by Robert Adam, collection of Chippendale furniture, 18th-century dolls' house, 300 acres (1.2 km$^2$) of parkland |
| Oakwell Hall | Birstall | Kirklees | Historic house | Elizabethan manor house and period gardens |
| Otley Museum | Otley | City of Leeds | Local | Local history |
| Peace Museum | Bradford | City of Bradford | Peace | History and development of peace, non-violence and conflict resolution |
| Pontefract Museum | Pontefract | City of Wakefield | Local | Local history, mining, culture, archaeology, |
| Red House Museum | Gomersal | Kirklees | Historic house | 1830s cloth merchant's home with Brontë connections |
| Royal Armouries Museum | Leeds | City of Leeds | Military | Armour, swords, spears, warfare from ancient to modern times |
| Salts Mill | Saltaire | City of Bradford | Art | 19th-century textile mill now housing the 1853 Gallery with works by David Hockney, Gallery 2 with a collection of Saltaire paintings and drawings, and the Saltaire Exhibition with local history exhibits |
| Shibden Hall | Shibden | Calderdale | Historic house | 15th-century timber-framed house, park include West Yorkshire Folk Museum with rural life displays |
| Smith Art Gallery | Brighouse | Calderdale | Art | website, permanent exhibition of Victorian paintings, changing exhibits of local and regional artists |
| Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre | Marsden | Kirklees | Transportation | Construction of the Standedge Tunnels and the history and life along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal |
| Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery | Leeds | City of Leeds | Art | website, part of the University of Leeds, collection includes European and British painting, drawings and prints, dating from the 17th century up to the present day |
| The Tetley | Leeds | City of Leeds | Art | website, centre for contemporary art and learning, located in the former headquarters building for Tetley's Brewery, includes the Tetley Collection with relics from the brewery's past |
| Temple Newsam House and Estate | Leeds | City of Leeds | Historic house | Tudor-Jacobean house with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, working rare breeds farm, collections of fine and decorative arts, especially paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles and wallpapers |
| Thackray Museum | Leeds | City of Leeds | Medical | History of medicine, including Victorian treatments and patients, childbirth, surgery |
| Thwaite Mills | Leeds | City of Leeds | Industry | Fully restored working water-powered textile mill and associated buildings |
| Todmorden Toy & Model Museum | Todmorden | Calderdale | Toy | information, shop and museum, includes toys, model trains |
| Tolson Museum | Huddersfield | Kirklees | Multiple | Local history, natural history, transportation, textiles, archaeology |
| Wakefield Museum | Wakefield | City of Wakefield | Multiple | Local history, culture, natural history collections of Charles Waterton |
| West Yorkshire Print Workshop | Golcar | Kirklees | Art | website, printmaking and crafts art centre with gallery |
| Yorkshire Sculpture Park | West Bretton | City of Wakefield | Art | Changing exhibits of sculpture, both outdoors and indoors |

## Defunct museums

* Clarke Hall, Wakefield, 17th-century country house and gardens, closed in 2012
* Harmonium Museum, Saltaire, collection of reed organs and harmoniums, closed in 2011
* Keighley Private Classic Car Museum, Keighley, also known as Yorkshire Car Collection
* Rugby League Heritage Centre, Huddersfield, closed in 2013 due to sale of building, seeking new location
* Transperience, Low Moor, Bradford, closed in 1997
* Wakefield Art Gallery, closed March 2009, collections moving to the Hepworth Wakefield
* Yorkshire Motor Museum, also known as Scopos Mills Motor Museum, Batley, closed in 2010