Scarborough Collections

Scarborough Collections is the name given to all the museum objects that have been acquired by the borough over the years. We have frocks, locks, rocks, hats, cats, bats, stay busks, elephant tusks, marble busts, swords, awards, coin hoards and much more all housed in the Scarborough Museums Trust Store at Woodend until they can be put on display.

Scarborough Collections is also about creating access to stored objects through a number of different routes. This includes events such as ‘What a Picture’ where visitors were able to look through volumes of old photographic prints and postcards of Scarborough and use Photoshop to examine some of the prints in detail. We offer an enquiry service where people bring in their own objects for the museum staff to examine and provide expert information. Our collections are used by researchers ranging from professional to amateur academics, freelance writers producing articles for magazines to television production companies, students studying art, costume design, geology, history, and tourism. We answer enquiries from as far away as Peru, America, Japan and Australia as well as those from Scarborough residents.

If you have an enquiry or would like access to our stored collection please contact Karen Snowden, Head of Collections on 01723 384506, Woodend, The Crescent, Scarborough, YO11 2PW or email: karen.snowden@smtrust.uk.com