Hull bids for major maritime project funding 24th May 2019 Hull has bid for funding to secure a project that will transform its most important maritime treasures. Hull City Council has applied for £13.6m from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the ambitious £27.4m Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City project. A successful bid would enable the full realisation of the plan to celebrate Hull’s 800 years of […] Read more Leisure & Culture News Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City
How you can back Hull’s huge £27.4m major maritime project 21st May 2019 Hull residents are being urged to back a bid for millions of pounds towards Hull’s ambitious £27.4m major maritime project. Hull City Council is bidding for £13.6m from the National Lottery Heritage Fund – and has now launched the All Hands on Deck campaign to build on a wave of support. The project is to […] Read more Leisure & Culture Museums Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City
Watch this powerful film about Hull’s connection with the sea 26th April 2019 A powerful and moving film has been created for Hull’s ambition Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City project. Born on the Tide explores Hull’s maritime history as seen through the eyes of different generations, highlighting the community’s deeply held connection with the sea and the world. Hull film company E52 have teamed up with Storyboard Media to […] Read more News Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City
Plans to transform Queens Gardens revealed 25th April 2019 These multi-million pound plans to transform Queens Gardens will go on display today as part of the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City exhibition at Trinity Market. Funded separately to the maritime project, the gardens will complement the £27.4m project, offering residents and visitors a maritime trail from the Maritime Museum through Queens Gardens to the North […] Read more News Planning Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime CityQueens GardensTrinity Market
Stunning pictures show plans for Hull’s huge maritime project 25th April 2019 These amazing pictures reveal plans that will lead to the transformation of Hull’s most important maritime treasures. The ambitious plans, which will lead to the regeneration of the Arctic Corsair, North End Shipyard, Spurn Lightship, Dock Office Chambers and the Hull Maritime Museum, go on public display at Hull’s Trinity Market today – with Hull […] Read more News Planning Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime CityTrinity Market
Ambitious plans for Hull’s massive maritime project to go on display 16th April 2019 Plans for a major project to place Hull’s 800 years of maritime history at the heart of the city’s regeneration will go on display. The ideas for the Hull: Yorkshire Maritime City project will be on show at Trinity Market from Thursday 25 April – with members of the public encouraged to offer views to […] Read more News Planning Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime CityTrinity Market
Efforts to return historic trawler Viola to Hull stepped up 4th April 2019 A push to bring a historic steam trawler back to Hull has been stepped up. The Viola sailed from the city more than 100 years ago – but now sits abandoned on the island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean. She was built in 1906 at Beverley Shipyard and became part of a fleet of 50 […] Read more News Alan JohnsonHull: Yorkshire’s Maritime CityThe Viola
11 Easter school holiday activities at Hull museums 4th April 2019 The Easter school holidays are just around the corner in Hull – which means parents and carers of children in the city will be frantically trying to find activities to keep their young ones busy. This year’s Easter holidays, from Friday 5 April to Tuesday 23 April, will see the fantastic museums in the city’s […] Read more Leisure & Culture Museums News What's on Ferens Art GalleryHull and East Riding MuseumHull Maritime MuseumHull: Yorkshire’s Maritime CityStreetlife MuseumWilberforce House Museum
Hull Maritime Museum to close ahead of major refurb 29th March 2019 Hull Maritime Museum will close for a few days ahead of a major refurbishment. The museum will close from 1pm on Wednesday 3 April to allow a specialist company to complete a series of surveys. It will reopen on Saturday 6 April at 10am. The improvements are part of the £27.4 million Hull Yorkshire’s Maritime […] Read more Leisure & Culture News Hull Culture and LeisureHull Maritime MuseumHull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City
Here Be Whales exhibition at Hull Maritime Museum 6th February 2019 A new contemporary art exhibition on the past, present and future of whales opens at the Hull Maritime Museum this February. Here Be Whales, which brings together a selected group of national and international artists who explore the sea mammals, is on show from 5 February to 22 April at the museum. The exhibition features drawings, […] Read more News Hull Culture and LeisureHull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City
Ferens Art Gallery to host Swinging the Lamp 24th January 2019 A performance showing the drama of a life at sea is coming to Hull. Swinging the Lamp, told in the words of a former fisherman, will be shown at Ferens Art Gallery on Saturday 9 March. The show remembers the life of skipper Jim Williams and tells tales of Hull and Grimsby’s past fishing communities through storytelling, theatre and folk […] Read more Leisure & Culture News Ferens Art GalleryHull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City
Arctic Corsair: learn more about Hull’s famous vessel 22nd January 2019 Sam North, project support intern on the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City project, worked closely with volunteers who catalogued the Arctic Corsair collection and was one of the staff members who helped to remove the collection last summer. Here, he explains more about the famous vessel. The Arctic Corsair sailed from Hull between 1960 and 1987. Fishing was […] Read more Leisure & Culture News Hull MuseumsHull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City
