Date: 11 December 2025
Still looking for the perfect gift for the history-lover in your life? York Museums Trust has an incredible range of objects available to sponsor this festive season, including a stunning medieval gold ring recently acquired by the Yorkshire Museum.
The ‘Adopt an Object’ scheme was launched by York Museums Trust in summer 2025 alongside …
Date: 4 December 2025
The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce they have received a generous gift of £701.24 from the villagers of Melsonby, North Yorkshire, towards continued conservation and exhibition of the incredible Iron Age discovery, the Melsonby Hoard.
Discovered in 2021 by metal detectorists nearby to Melsonby village, this unprecedented discovery contains over 900 Iron Age objects, predominantly …
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 …
