Thirsk Museum

01/10/2026

We often ask for volunteers to help with stewarding in the museum but there are other roles that we need help with, ones that can be carried out from home, in your own time. These include:
Finance (treasurer)
Premises
Health & Safety
Education
Museum Experience
CIOs & the law
If you have experience in any of these areas and could help us out, please get in touch:
Either call in or email [email protected]

25/09/2026

We have a lovely new window display all about the White Horse at Kilburn. If you’re passing stop and take a look!

11/09/2026

Thirsk Museum is open Saturday 12th September (10.30 - 3.30) as part of the Heritage Open Days festival, along with St Mary’s Church and the Ritz Cinema. Why not visit them all!

20/08/2026

It’s a rainy week so why not visit Thirsk Museum! There’s a quiz for the children to keep them busy.

16/08/2026

Tuesday 18 August
Thirsk Museum AGM/Open Meeting, Thirsk & Sowerby Town Hall Annexe, Westgate, Thirsk, YO7 1QR.
This is the opportunity to come along and meet the Stewards, learn how the Museum is functioning and enjoy chatting with those involved. Refreshments will be available after the formalities. 7.00pm. Free.
email: [email protected]

Thirsk Museum, birthplace of Thomas Lord in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, exhibits include the Busby Stoop Chair.

11/08/2026

Thirsk Museum, birthplace of Thomas Lord in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, exhibits include the Busby Stoop Chair.

28/07/2026

Thank you to the MCC for their visit to our museum during their match in Thirsk. Great to see these cricketers at our museum, the birthplace of Thomas Lord, in Kirkgate.

28/07/2026

28/07/2026

On Sunday Thirsk Cricket Club played Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The MCC own Lord’s Cricket Ground, known as the home of cricket, in London.
As part of the Thirsk Club’s 175th anniversary celebrations they invited the MCC to Thirsk to play a match and also to look around Thirsk Museum, the house where Thomas Lord was born in 1755. He went on to establish the cricket ground named after him.