Guided Tour of Hull and East Riding Museum of Archaeology

Hull and East Riding Museum of Archaeology is running guided tours through the galleries from Sunday 13 December 2026, and they keep going right through to Tuesday 30 March 2027. It's a free tour that takes about an hour, and it works its way through 235 million years of regional history, starting way back when mammoths roamed the area and moving through the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, Roman Britain, the Saxons, the Vikings, and into medieval and early modern Hull.

There's a fair bit to see along the way. The museum holds the only dinosaur bones ever discovered in East Yorkshire, and prehistoric finds originally collected by one of the nineteenth century's most important amateur archaeologists. You'll also find a full-size Iron Age settlement reconstruction, a recreation of a local Roman settlement, and an exceptional Viking sword.

It sits in the city's Museums Quarter, right alongside the Streetlife Museum of Transport and Wilberforce House Museum, and entry is free. The tours run from 13 December 2026 through to 30 March 2027, so there's plenty of time to fit it in over the winter.