Wilberforce House

The house is currently an exhibition hall displaying the life and work of one of Hull's most acclaimed children.Wilberforce House is the origination of William Wilberforce 1759– 1833, the British government official, abolitionist and social reformer, situated in the High Street, Kingston upon Hull, England.

It is presently part of Hull's Museum Quarter consolidating the Nelson Mandela garden.William Wilberforce was MP for Kingston upon Hull and was most persuasive in the annulment of bondage in Great Britain and its states, which turned into his all-consuming purpose.

Like the close-by Blaydes House and Maister House, the building was once in the past a Merchant's home with access to quayside on the River Hull. It is additionally delegated a Grade I recorded building.2 The exhibition hall re-opened on 25 March 2007, following a two-year £1.6 million redevelopment, in time for the 200th commemoration of Wilberforce's Act of Parliament canceling the slave exchange the British Empire