Hull's Museums Quarter

Hull’s Museums Quarter is home to three incredible free museums in Hull, located just off the charming cobbled streets of Hull Old Town. One of the city’s cultural highlights, this historic area brings together Wilberforce House, the Hull and East Riding Museum, and the Streetlife Museum of Transport – each offering a unique insight into Hull’s rich heritage.

Hull and East Riding Museum

Step back through 235 million years of the region's history, archaeology, and natural history.

A group of children and an adult look at a large woolly mammoth model with long curved tusks in the Hull & East Riding Museum, surrounded by rocks and informational displays.

Streetlife Museum of Transport

Travel through 200 years of transport history with immersive vintage vehicles and street scenes.

Families exploring a historic railway-themed gallery, looking at an L.N.E.R. vintage delivery truck, luggage display, and recreated station setting inside a Streetlife Museum Hull .

Wilberforce House Museum

Explore Wilberforce’s life, abolition legacy, and Hull’s fight against slavery.

A cobbled street scene outside a historic red‑brick building in Hull’s Museums Quarter, with two visitors walking past the Wilberfoce House under a bright, clear sky.

More free things to do In Hull

Uncover a fantastic range of more free attractions, museums, art galleries, tours, trails and walks.

Front exterior of the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, showing its neoclassical stone façade with tall columns, decorative carvings and entrance banners on a bright day, with the nearby historic lamp feature in the foreground.