Worth visiting when you are on the quay. I did not know a great deal about Hartlepool until I wandered around the displays. Not one of those stuffy museums, plenty of displays and artifacts of harlepools more recent history too.

It saddened me to see this ship. It is not the most beautiful example of a shipbuilders craft and being painted overall black (except for the white funnel), did it no favours. They "Think the engine works", but it is not connected to the paddles and the boiler needs repair. What on earth is the point of `restoring` her if... More

Very interesting museum, plenty of exhibits reflecting Hartlepool.

A great small museum that you can easily spend 2 hours in. Its free and has some great electrical experiments for the kids and adults alike. When finished have lunch in the cafe on-board the Wingfield Castle, an old paddle steamer. You can then go on to the quayside and HMS Trincomalee.

Adjacent to Maritime Experience and a good, potted history of Hartlepool with lots of hands-on experiences for the younger ones, including costumes to dress up in and colouring. Plenty of note to those interested in maritime history, in particular steam ships.

Nice interesting and free museum. has a very good section on electricity and even in my advancing years i learn a few new things.

What a great FREE day out of interest to all the family.

free but would have paid very interesting well worth a visit

It was rather confusing looking round the museum there didn't seem much structure in where items were placed