York Castle Museum

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  • Address
    Tower St, Old York
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  • Phone
    653611
  • Transport
    walking:

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Lonely Planet review

Near Clifford's Tower, the excellent York Castle Museum contains displays of everyday life, with reconstructed domestic interiors, and a less-than-homely prison cell where you can try out the condemned man's bed - in this case Dick Turpin's.

There's a bewildering array of evocative everyday objects from the past 400 years, gathered together by a certain Dr Kirk from the 1920s onwards for fear that the items would become obsolete and disappear completely. He wasn't far wrong, which makes this place all the more interesting.