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| | Hull City Council : Museums and galleries |
 | | Hull museums’ collection of artworks and artefacts is now available online for the first time.The online collections, at www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections (link opens in a new window), will feature over 400,000 items from a variety of collections. |
 | | Wilberforce House was the birthplace and residence of the city’s most celebrated son, William Wilberforce, the Hull Member of Parliament who campaigned against the slave trade in the 19th century. |
 | | Adjoining Streetlife is the Hull and East Riding Museum, which tells the amazing story of Hull and East Yorkshire from the beginning of geological time, through the early tribes, Saxon and Roman invaders, all the way up to the 17th century, when the city we see today really began to take shape. |
| www.hullcc.gov.uk /portal/page?_pageid=221,52845&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL (735 words) |
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