The survival of a museum dedicated to British explorer James Cook is reliant on a mystery benefactor. Middlesbrough Council had proposed shutting the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum earlier this ...

A writing of wronged history comes with the milestone exhibition of the Gweagal Spears, stolen by Captain Cook and returned ...

Items in the early days include a polar bear’s skull, specimens of cloth from South Sea Islands brought home by Captain Cook ...

Old man banksia (Banksia serrata), collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's voyage of discovery to Australasia (1769-1771). The Museum's two million General Herbarium specimens ...

Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...