Date: 19 August 2025 Adopt an object: Sponsor a Viking artefact at the Yorkshire Museum. The Yorkshire Museum has launched a new object-focused fundraising programme, ‘Adopt an Object’. The programme provides the opportunity for annual sponsorship of some of the incredible collections from the recently opened Viking North exhibition. ‘Adopt an Object’ offers the chance to …
DATE: 29 July 2025 Melsonby Hoard saved for the UK thanks to National Heritage Memorial Fund and public support. The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £192,096 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund alongside support from public fundraising to acquire the Melsonby Hoard for future generations. Discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021 near the …
Date: 11 June 2025 Echoes of Yorkshire: The Museum Illuminated Created by Luxmuralis Friday 24 October – Sunday 2 November 2025 Light, colour and music surround you at the extraordinary light and sound installation by Luxmuralis in the York Museum Gardens this autumn. From Friday 24 October to Sunday 2 November 2025, 6pm to 8.20pm, the internationally acclaimed Luxmuralis brings the story alive …
Digital scanning of Melsonby Hoard to create 3D handling objects As part of the effort to save the incredible Iron Age discovery, the Melsonby Hoard, the Yorkshire Museum recently welcomed Heritage360 from the University of York to undertake some 3D scanning of the hoard. Unearthed in 2021 in North Yorkshire, the Melsonby Hoard is a once …
Date: 14 May 2025 Yorkshire Museum Announces Major Exhibition: ‘Viking North’ Opens Friday 11 July 2025 Viking Treasures Reveal the North’s Power Base As the premier museum in the north of England for ancient objects and rare finds, The Yorkshire Museum in the city of York, announces its forthcoming major exhibition, Viking North, which opens Friday 11 …
Date: 13 May 2025 UK-WIDE CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO FUND MUSEUM VISITS FOR 100,000 CHILDREN The Yorkshire Museum (York) is part of a UK-wide network ensuring every schoolchild has access to museums Cost cited as the major barrier as 60% of UK teachers say they had not taken their class to a museum on a school trip in the last 12 …
Date: 6 May 2025 Local NHS Supports York Health and Arts Mela Multicultural Festival for the second time at York Museum Gardens NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), in collaboration with various local organisations, is once again supporting the York Health and Arts Mela multicultural festival in the York Museum Gardens. Following the success …
DATE: 4 April 2025 Ecce, Romani! Eboracum Roman Festival set to return in May! Schools Week, 19 – 23 May 2025 Family festival, 24 – 31 May 2025 Greetings and salutations await visitors to York at the end of May, when some of the top attractions in the city join forces for two weeks of gladiators, centurions, gods and goddesses with the return …
The discovery near the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire, is one of the biggest and most important Iron Age hoards ever found in the UK Over 800 items dating back 2,000 years have been unearthed and taken to Durham University for stabilisation and recording Objects include vehicle components from wagons and/or chariots including 28 iron tyres, two …
Date: 10 July 2024 Mesolithic Life Comes Alive in York! ‘Britain’s Oldest House’ to be Built in Museum Gardens 7 August to 1 September 2024 Just what is it like to build and live in a Mesolithic House? 11,000 years ago our ancestors were not just surviving, they were thriving and this summer, visitors to York’s Museum Gardens …
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