The Yorkshire Museum is a museum located in York.

It opened in 1830 as a new home for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society collections. The first caretaker was the geologist John Phillips.

The museum stands on the grounds of York Abbey, St Mary's, on land granted by royal concession in 1828. The remains of the Abbey can still be seen on the same site.

The collections housed within the Yorkshire Museum have remained faithful to the original interests of the founders: archeology and science. The archaeological collection deals with artifacts found in York and the North Yorkshire region. Since 1830 many of the objects found inside the city have become part of the museum's collection.

Today the Yorkshire Museum in its galleries exhibits real archaeological treasures of Great Britain from the Roman, Viking and medieval past of the city. It is also home to an important collection of natural sciences.

Flowers in the crown of the collection are the Roman statue of Mars, the Helmet of York and the splendid jewel of Middleham.

There is also a section dedicated to astronomy, located in the gardens of the museum: the observatory is certainly the center of this part of the collection with the 4-inch refracting telescope built by Thomas Cooke in 1850 and installed in 1981.