Museum Guided Tours
Join our volunteer tour guides for a free one hour tour of our museums. We have 4 tours available with each one telling the stories behind some of the fascinating objects in our collections as well as delving into the history of the buildings that are home to our museums.
All tours created and delivered by volunteers who have completed the Institute of Tourism Guiding Level 2 accreditation.
Please note tours are subject to volunteer availability and locations may change at short notice.
Explore the city’s art collection on a free guided tour of Ferens Art Gallery.
Our informative and friendly guides, will give you an overview of some of the highlights of the Gallery. In the hour-long tour, among others, we will reveal the stories of work by the 14th century Italian artist, Lorenzetti, art from the Dutch Golden Age, paintings of great 19th-century female artists and the more local talent of Atkinson Grimshaw.
Step inside Hull’s oldest museum on a free guided tour of Wilberforce House Museum.
Welcome to the elegant 17th c Merchant’s House, home of William Wilberforce, prominent Hull MP and one of the key figures in the the Anti-Slavery Movement. Step back in time with our guides in an hour-long tour, exploring the house, the man and those who worked alongside him in the struggle against slavery.
All aboard for a free guided tour of the Streetlife Museum.
Let our guides bring the popular Streetlife Museum to life in an hour-long tour, travelling through 200 years of transport history, from carriages to cars. Also hear the story of Thomas Sheppard, the man largely responsible for this and Hull’s many other fascinating museum collections
Unearth the past with a free guided tour of the Hull & East Riding Museum of Archaeology.
Time travel with our guides through 235 million years of history! The hour-long tour will reveal the tales behind many of the treasures found in our area. Begin the story when Mammoths roamed this part of the country, marvel at mysteries of discovered figures in wood and chalk and see the incredible local Roman Mosaics.
Hull Maritime Guided Tours
Discover 800 years of maritime heritage through the buildings, stories and people of Kingston upon Hull.
Created and delivered by volunteers who have completed the Institute of Tourism Guiding Level 2 accreditation.
Thursday and Saturday at 10.30am and Sunday at 11.30am - long tour
Starting at the Museums Quarter gardens, the tours that run in the morning last up to 2.5 hours and take in the future location of the Arctic Corsair at North End Shipyard, Queens Gardens, the exterior of the Maritime Museum and the new location of the Spurn Lightship in Hull Marina. Other key landmarks include Blaydes House, Trinity House and Hull Marina.
Length: 2.4 km
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Hull City Council.
Sunday at 1.30pm - short tour
The shorter tour will run on a Sunday afternoon at 1.30pm, it lasts up to 1.5 hours and covers half of the full tour route.
Length: 1.4 km
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Hull City Council.
Accessibility & Health and Safety
The tour uses public pavements and crosses roads. A section is along the unfenced board walk next to the River Hull. There is no shelter from the elements along most of the route and limited or no seating at stopping points. The route is level and across some sections of heritage paving that has been levelled. The boardwalk has gaps of approximately 2 cm between the planks. We will vary the route on the day if wheelchair users request it.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.