Next to Clifford's Tower in the Eye of York the Castle Museum site was originally the Norman Castle in York and then became York's notorious prison, visit the cell where Dick Turpin the highwayman spent his last night before being executed. Walk through the cobbled streets of Kirkgate, where Victorian and Edwardian shops, pub, and police station are amongst the buildings salvaged from old York, and have been reconstructed to create a street from the past. The Yorkshire Museum is situated in the Museum Gardens, amongst the ruins of Medieval St. Mary's Abbey. The National Railway Museum.
Exhibits range from the birth of the railways to the latest cross channel high speed trains.
A must for children of all ages with interactive displays, visits from Thomas the Tank Engine, and a miniature steam railway. See trains from all over the world including Stephenson's Rocket and the world's fastest steam train The Mallard. Find out how Queen Victoria travelled in the Royal Trains exhibition and marvel how the mail has been moved by rail over the years. You can try your hand at weaving on a Viking loom or making a Roman shoe. See how bones and pottery are sorted at an archaeological dig.