York Castle Museum

Spotless

Find our how your grandma - or even her grandma - kept her house clean in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A varied display vacuum cleaners, baths, toilets, mangles, washing machines, soap and cleaning products, is combined with fascinating facts about how people washed, cleaned and went to the toilet over the last few decades.

• Kirkgate

  Our famous Victorian street

• York Castle Prison

  Meet inmate Dick Turpin

• The Sixties

  Explore a decade of change

• Toy stories

  Relive your childhood memories

• The Studios

  Events or displays every day