Editing Kingston upon Hull (section)

===Museums===
[[File:Statue of William Wilberforce, Hull - geograph.org.uk - 1442357.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Wilberforce House, home of the museum dedicated to William Wilberforce]]
The Museums Quarter is a development on the [[High Street, Hull|High Street]] in the heart of the Old Town. It combines four museums around a leisure garden. The work cost £5.1&nbsp;million and was carried out from 1998 to 2003, being formally opened by the [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester|Duke of Gloucester]].<ref name=HullDM1998>{{cite news |last=Young |first=Angus |date=21 May 1998 |title=GBP 100,000 closes cash gap Final funding for museum revamp |work=Hull Daily Mail }}</ref><ref name=HullDM2003June14>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Visitors Swarm To Museums Spectacular |work=Hull Daily Mail |date=14 June 2003 }}</ref><ref name=HullDM2003April22>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Duke To Launch Museum Project |work=Hull Daily Mail |date=22 April 2003 }}</ref>

The Museums are [[Wilberforce House]], the birthplace of [[William Wilberforce]] (1759–1833), the [[politics of the United Kingdom|British politician]], [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolitionist]] and [[social reformer]]; the [[Arctic Corsair]], a [[Fishing trawler|deep-sea trawler]] that was converted to a museum ship in 1999, on the adjacent [[River Hull]]; the [[Hull and East Riding Museum]], showing the archaeology and history of the region; and the [[Streetlife Museum of Transport]], which includes a sizeable collection of vintage cars, preserved public transport vehicles and horse-drawn carriages.<ref name=HullDM2003June14/>

Other museums include the [[Hull Maritime Museum]] in Victoria Square, the [[Spurn Lightship]],<ref>{{cite web
 |url = http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,631242&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
 |title = The Spurn Lightship
 |access-date = 25 February 2013
 |publisher = Hull City Council
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130530140428/http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,631242&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
 |archive-date = 30 May 2013
 |url-status = dead
 }}</ref> and [[The Deep (aquarium)|The Deep]], a [[public aquarium]].<ref name="the_deep">{{cite web
 |url = http://www.thedeep.co.uk/
 |title = Welcome
 |access-date = 4 November 2007
 |work = The Deep: The World's Only Submarium
 |publisher = EMIH Limited
 |year = 2007}}
</ref>