Rotunda Museum
Virtual Tour
Vernon Rd, Scarborough YO11 2PS
Rotunda Museum, Scarborough
Installation View, Photo: V21 Artspace
Courtesy: Scarborough Museums Trust
Virtual Tour
Opened in 1829, the Rotunda Museum is one of the world’s first purpose-built museums and was built to a design suggested by William ‘Strata’ Smith. The interior, with its fascinating Georgian gallery, features a frieze showing the geology of the local coastline designed by Smith’s nephew, John Phillips. The original cases tell the history of the museum and they explore the stories of the nineteenth century Scarborough Philosophical Society which brought the collections together.
See remarkable 11,000-year-old artefacts as we exhibit some very special items from the Star Carr Collection, including an antler headdress, barbed points, birch bark rolls, flint tools and animal remains.
Come face to face with the wonderful creatures which once called Yorkshire home at the Ancient Seas of the Yorkshire Coast display. See the fascinating collection of fossils and specially commissioned reconstructions of what marine life was like millions of years ago.
Find out more: scarboroughmuseumstrust.com