Here you can learn many things about Yorkshire Museum You will enjoy it.

1. YORKSHIRE MUSEUM
Amine Rami

2. Where is Yorkshire Museum located?
How much people visit it?
• The Yorkshire Museum is located in York,
England. Ninety-eight thousand people visited
the museum in 2015.

3. Colllections of the museums
• The museum has four permanent collections
which are based on geology, biology,
archaeology and astronomy.

4. The Cawood Sword
• The most important exposition is the Cawood
Sword, which has been found in the river Ouse
near Cawood in North Yorkshire.

5. When was Yorkshire museum
founded?
• The museum was founded in 1830 by the
Yorkshire Philosophical Society to expose their
geological and archaeological collections.

6. The Biology Collection
• The biology collection has close to 200,000
specimens.

7. The Geology Collection
• And the geology one contains 112,000
specimens of rocks, minerals and fossils.

8. Astronomy Collection
• The astronomy collection is kept in the
museum gardens with some telescopes.

9. The Archaeology Collection
• The archaeology collection has about one
million objects that are from 500,000 BC to
the 20th century.

10. What do I think about the museum?
• As we can see, this museum is very interesting and
extremely rich. I’ll do my best to visit it and to see all
these precious collections. I hope I can visit it soon to
have a good time and to learn more exciting things
about it.