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Raleigh Chopper Bicycle
The iconic Raleigh Chopper was designed by Alan Oakley from Nottingham, home of Raleigh bicycles. The bike was inspired by …
Manton Hanging Bowl
The Anglo-Saxon Manton Hanging Bowl was found in a sandpit in 1939. It dates to the sixth or seventh century. …
Sperm Whale Tooth Scrimshaw
This decorated sperm whale tooth is a piece of scrimshaw. It shows a sailor waving the Royal Navy’s flag with …
William Wilberforce’s Chair
This chair is said to have belonged to William Wilberforce. The chair has a Chinese-style geometric design carved on its …
Ferriby Boat
Between 1937 and 1963, Ted Wright discovered the remains of three Bronze Age boats at North Ferriby on the Humber …
‘Birdman’ Knife Sheath
This leather knife sheath was found in Blackfriargate in Hull’s Old Town. Waterlogged deposits preserve a remarkable insight into the …
Whalebone Bench
Different parts of the whale’s skeleton were used to make this bench. The wooden seat of this bench is …
Wedgewood Anti-Slavery Medallion
Slavery abolitionists used the image of a kneeling slave as their emblem in the late 1700s and early 1800s. It …
Madame Clapham Dress
Black satin dress designed by Hull’s most celebrated dressmaker, Madame Clapham, in the 1920s. Madame Clapham opened a dressmaking salon …
Gardner-Serpollet Steam Car, 1901
Léon Serpollet built his first steam powered vehicle at the age of 18. In 1889 Serpollet joined in partnership …
North Grimston Sword
This rare and striking Iron Age sword was found by accident in 1902 while estate workers were digging post-holes on …
Early Bronze Age Flint Sickle
This is a curved Flint Sickle, used for reaping during the Early Bronze Age. It was found at Dragonby. This …
Wooden Canisters
These two wooden canisters were set over the headmaster’s desk and chair at Hull Grammar School. They formed part of …
North Atlantic Right Whale Skeleton
This is a skeleton of a young female Right whale, approximately two years old and not fully grown. The …
Amy Johnson Collection
A collection devoted to the life and achievements of the Hull-born aviatrix Amy Johnson (1903-1941). Amy was the first woman …
William Wilberforce’s Coat
This jacket is made of gold and mauve woven silk. It belonged to Hull’s William Wilberforce. The jacket is part …
Stained glass window
This stained glass window originally formed part of the east window at St. Andrew’s Church in Hull. It was created …
Portrait of John Smythson
Portrait of John Smythson, Master Cook to Queen Elizabeth I, 1568. John Smythson lived in Kent but his family had …
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Vanitas 1664
The Ferens Netherlandish Old Masters include this skilled Flemish still-life of a type known as a Vanitas, a collection of …
Dragonby Mars Figurine
Copper alloy figurine of Mars Ultor, “Mars the Avenger”, from the Roman settlement at Dragonby. Mars was the god of …
Portrait Of A Lady Of Elizabeth’s Court 1595
Highly decorative, this Tudor portrait is less of a likeness than a statement of the sitter’s immense wealth and social …
Rhinoceros Wheelbarrow
This wheelbarrow was made in Hull by local furniture makers Richardson & Sons. Joseph Armytage Wade used this wheelbarrow in …
AEC Regal Mark III Bus, 1949
This bus was one of six delivered to Hull Corporation Transport in 1949. The Associated Equipment Company Ltd (AEC) had …
The Ammonite Fossil
An Arietites ammonite from the Frodingham Ironstone. Ammonites are the extinct relatives of the nautilus, octopus and cuttlefish. The first …
The Ulceby Beaker
Early Bronze Age beaker discovered in Ulceby in the late nineteenth century. The Beaker was for many years preserved in …
Whale Ear Bone
This is a whale’s ear bone, also known as a tympanum. It has been hand-painted to look like somebody’s face, …
Burial Urn
A Bronze Age cremation urn, found during the excavation of Kilham long barrow in the 1950s-1960s. Reconstructed from a large …
Starfish Fossil
Starfish are extremely rare fossils. Scunthorpe’s Frodingham Ironstone is one of the few rocks in Britain to preserve them.
Ship Figurehead: Sirius
This wooden figurehead from the Trans-Atlantic paddle steamer Sirius is carved into the shape of a Newfoundland dog. The Sirius, …