Captain Cook Museum in Whitby’s Grape Lane

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Captain Cook Museum in Whitby’s Grape Lane

Captain Cook Museum – where James Cook lodged!!

Get to know Captain Cook at this award winning museum, his life, his voyages, his discoveries……

Down a narrow lane, backing on to the harbour, lies Walker’s House, which belonged to Captain John Walker, the Whitby ship owner whom Cook served for nine years. It was to this house, now the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, that young James came in 1746 to serve his seaman’s apprenticeship. Cook remained in touch with Walker all his life visiting the house again in 1772 after the First Voyage.

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Cook explored the East Coast of Australia, charted New Zealand, was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle and the first to circumnavigate the globe in both directions – he was world famous in his lifetime and a legend after his death.

The Museum illuminates his life with a mass of material, original letters in Cook’s hand, letters about disputes in London, paintings and Pacific artifacts from the Voyages, ship models and maps, taking the visitor from the beginning of Cook’s sea-going career to his death in Hawaii.

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Opening Times

The Museum is open half term weekends in February and then daily, March through October. For detailed information, please look at the Visitor Information page on the Museum’s website.

The Museum is independent and run by a charity, the Cook Museum Trust. It is fully accredited with Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, and with VAQAS, the Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Service.

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