Hull's "Hands on History Museum" is set to re-open on Saturday, May 14th after being closed for multiple years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-safe guided tours have been available for scheduling, but this weekend the free museum reopens to the public in it's entirety.
Tourists can come from all over to visit the museum from 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm every second and fourth Saturday of each month and see a few different exhibits including replicas of King Tutankhamen of Egypt's treasures as well as a real 2600 year old Egyptian mummy, and exhibits on Victorian England and the history of Hull.
The museum itself is historical, existing inside the old Hull Grammar School, a secondary school that was first founded all the way back in about 1330. It was endowed as a part of a chantry church for 107 years until its revenues were seized under the Chantry Act of 1547 and the school was reestablished appropriated by The Crown in 1586. The school taught many notable people including playwright Richard Bean, the Bishop of Tasmania Charles Bromby, and William Wilberforce, a politician and philanthropist best known for his role in opposing slave trade in the late 1820s.
Anyone interested in visiting the museum can comfortably stay in one of our holiday rental properties, located just a short distance from the location.
- Dakota Morrill
Padoo Homes
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