Local history
View our exclusive online exhibits, which explore the local history of East Yorkshire. Open 24/7 for all, click below to start your visit.
Online Art
View our online art exhibitions, with exhibits from nationally renowned artists. Open 24/7 for all, click below to start your visit.
Student curated exhibitions
In 2021, Beverley Art Gallery welcomed students from the University of York's History of Art department on a digital placement. Students from the undergraduate History of Art and Curating course spent several months with the gallery staff and as a result created several online projects based around our collections.
Self Portrait Tutorials
Artist and tutor Esther Cawley runs drawing courses for East Riding Museums Service at the Treasure House. She has put together this inspiring set of short self portrait drawing videos to encourage and support you to draw at home. Enjoy having a go!
Past exhibitions
Each year our team create a range of temporary exhibitions of local social history. From the dizzy colours of 1960s East Riding and the history of local pubs to life during wartime and the local economy. Missed an exhibition? You can download past exhibition boards as a PDF.
Search past exhibitionsVirtual Tour of Beverley Guildhall
Visit the Guildhall virtually while you are unable to get out and about. Come again in reality later as there is plenty more to explore. To visit a range of exciting museum and attraction tours visit the Info Aktiv site.
Visit Virtual ToursAmy Johnson Log Book
Download the full transcript from Amy Johnson's log book. Amy was a pioneering English pilot born in Hull who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia in 1930 with her Gipsy Moth aircraft G-AAAH called 'Jason'.
Download TranscriptYorkshire Film Archive
Earlier this year we worked with Yorkshire Film Archive to create this wonderful East Riding film compilation for the Treasure House Museum. Did you know you can explore over 1800 films for free on the YFA website?
Visit Yorkshire Film ArchiveHumber Museums Partnership
East Riding Museums is part of the Humber Museums Partnership, joining up 18 sites across the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull and North Lincolnshire. Formed in 2014 and using funding from the Arts Council England, the three areas work together on a number of exhibitions, events and learning programmes.
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World War I Centenary
The First World War was one of the most significant events of the modern era and its consequences still shape the world we live in today. Between 3 August 1914 and the armistice on 11 November 1918, more than 8 million men and women of Britain and its Empire took part in this war to end all wars. Nearly 1 million of them died and 2 million were wounded.
As well as the effects on individuals who served and their families, the war resulted in major political and geographical changes, including the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Turkish empires, drastically re-drawing the map of Europe. In Britain, the war led to the erosion of many social divisions and the extension of the right to vote to millions of women.
Through 2018, as part of the Humber Museums Partnership and with funding from the Arts Council, a series of events and exhibitions took place to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
You can view an online timeline of significant events on the WW1 Timeline website.
WW1 Timeline
As part of the Centenary project, East Riding Museums compiled resources and research into the First World War. The downloads below relate to the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry and East Yorkshire Regiment. They are provided for personal interest only and should not be reproduced without prior permission. Please contact us if you need to reproduce the documents in any way.
- Transcript of the diary of Private George Lancaster, 1/1st East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, Egypt/Palestine, 1917
- Memoirs of Leonard May of the 1/1st East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
- Letters from Leonard May of the 1/1st East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry 1915-1917
- Transcript of the diary of Private Charles A Johnson of the 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment
- Transcript of the diary of Lt Robert Stephenson of the East Riding Yeomanry, 1917
- Memoirs of Lt Frank Wood of the East Riding Yeomanry from 1969 telling the story of the Yeomanry
- Memoirs of Lt Frank Wood of the East Riding Yeomanry
- Notes from lantern slide lecture by Sergeant Harold Lyon of the East Riding Yeomanry
- Resignation letter of Lt Norman Crichton of the East Riding Yeomanry
- WW1 items held by East Riding Museums
- WW1 booklist available at East Riding Libraries
The below external websites can be useful to further your research of local soldiers and World War 1 beyond East Yorkshire.
- The Imperial War Museum (external website) has led the commemoration projects nationally
- View the British Library WW1 resources for letters, photos, poetry and interviews.
- Find My Past has Resources for military families including searching for names in records, articles and history on significant events such as Anzac Day and features collections from Britain, Australia, America and Ireland
- Billiongraves is the largest online resource for cemetery data, and is constantly growing.
- The Military Indexes is an online directory of military indexes such as soldiers, drafts cards and casualties for the United States of America. This can be useful for genealogy research.
If you are interested in family history, use the East Riding Archives guide to family history research for more online resources and local items.
Researching family and local history
All of the downloads and online exhibitions on this page can be used to further your research into family history or the local area. For full guides and tips on what else to look for, visit East Riding Archives.
East Riding Archives