Captain Cook Birthplace Museum

My husband and myself visited the Captain Cook Museum last year with my then 6 year old daughter. The museum is situated in Stewart Park, and is quite a long walk to get to. The museum itself is very clean and well cared for, and admission is free, which is always a good thing in my book! Outside the museum there are some beautiful totem poles which my daughter and all the other children in the vicinity were fascinated by! There is also a café upstairs which sells a good variety of reasonably priced foods. The museum houses various exhibitions, including the permanent Captain Cook one, which we found interesting but I thought was a little bit too complex for my daughter to understand in places. To be honest it could have done with being a little more interactive and child-​friendly to hold her (and my!) interest. Although my husband did find all of this information useful and interesting! I would recommend visiting the Captain Cook Museum if you have an interest in the subject, but I myself won’t be going out of my way to return in the future.

excellent place for all the family to visit, always immacutely kept, captain cook museum is a nice place to visit, quite new café to visit with quite cheap food and drink, very interesting for a learning experience

Brilliant place to visit. There is a little coffee shop also situated here for those looking for a longer day out.
Captain cook birthplace museum is set in the grounds of Stewart park. Approximately in the middle, so quite a long walk is needed to get there however there are spaces for those not as mobile as others.
You take a trip in here and go back intime to the days of Captain cook when he was on his ship. You can see the cramped conditions which the crew had to live in. The museum gives an insight into his life. .Further up the road in Great Ayton is Captain cooks schoolroom museum.
Captain cook was born in the grounds of Stewarts park and this is an ideal location for this museum.