It is a place to discover the story of Doncaster, from its beginnings in the Ice Age through to life in the modern world. The museum shut its doors in January 2020 in order to prepare to relocate to the new home just up the road on Waterdale in summer 2020 and due to the national lockdown is still shut. But see who you can recognise in these pictures going back to the 1990s.
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5. Moulded for the masses
Geoff Preece Museum and Galleries looking at the Sputnik butter dish in 1997
Photo: chris lawton
6. Family time
Danny Bubb and Sarah Grice with daughter Casey enjoying some family time at Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery in 1997
Photo: steve taylor
7. New exhibition
Looking at the water cycle of Thorne and Hatfield Moors in 1998 were Sarah Essex, aged 7, left and her 6 year old sister Emily who are from Balby.
Photo: Andrew Partridge
8. Sprotbrough siblings
Sprotbrough brother and sister Edward and Sarah Brown, aged six, and 11, went on an outing with their grandad Ben Brown, of Hatfield, in 1998. Our picture shows them admiring an oil painting by Tom McGuiness, which was on show at Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Chequer Road, Doncaster.
Photo: Steve Taylor