Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum — Attraction in Great Ayton

Wonderful mini museum. Three generations of our family visited together aged from 74 to 7 years. We spent a good hour filling in the free quizzes provided by the lovely friendly and helpful volunteers in the shop downstairs. Upstairs (lift available) museum packed full of interesting and interactive history and information about Captain Cook and the local area. Free entry but donations...

Captain Cook's school room museum is dedicated to the legendary seafarer James Cook who as a boy lived up at aryholme farm 2.5 miles outside the village on the way to Gribdale gate , the school room has been restored to exactly as it would have been when James was a boy it is well worth a visit if you are in great Ayton there is also wheel chair access parking is on...

The Schoolroom Museum is housed in a building erected in 1785 as a school house and poor house, on the site of the charity school which James Cook attended. The knowledge that he gained here provided the starting point for him to become one of the greatest navigators, explorers and chartmakers that...