Yorkshire Museum of Farming

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The Yorkshire Museum of Farming is located in Murton Park near York in England. It is home to the last surviving stretch of the Derwent Valley Light Railway and a mock Roman fort called Brigantium, which is a disguised outdoor classroom designed to cater for up to 65 children at a time. There are also buildings dedicated to the Tudor, and Viking ages, including a Dark Age village and how they farmed the land centuries ago

[edit] History

The museum opened in 1982 originally designed to house a growing collection of farm machinery that had been donated by various farms from north and east Yorkshire to the East Yorkshire Farm Machinery Preservation Society and stored at Burton Constable.

Over time it has grown to include a number of buildings displaying agricultural machines and implements including tractors and combine harvesters, plus a limited number of farm animals.

Indoor displays include cut-away caterpillar tractors, photographs, James Herriot's veterinary practice and a blacksmiths along with various farming hand tools and equipment.

[edit] Current projects

A current project by the museum is being undertaken to interview a number of different farming families and provide an audiovisual display of different types of farms from around Yorkshire, These include Dairy, Sheep, Pigs and Arable crops, both organic and those using Agrochemicals, an artificial inseminater and some subsistence farms.