28 October 2015 This October half term find out what creatures are lurking amongst the resident remains at the Yorkshire Museum’s Extinct Galleries. The Yorkshire Museum’s dinosaur footprints, huge sea reptiles, extinct Moa and Dodo will all be joined on select days by fluffy mammals, scaly reptiles and creepy crawlies! Emma Williams, assistant curator of …
22 October 2015 Illuminating York 28 – 31 October 2015, 6 – 10pm As the nights start drawing in, York is gearing up for the annual celebration of light that is the illuminating York Festival. Now in its 10th year, the Festival was one of the first of its kind in the UK and it continues to pursue new ways of showing this …
9 September 2015 #AskACurator – 16 September 2015 #AskACurator is a fantastic global event in which thousands of curators answer questions online. The 2015 event is on September 16 Our team are gearing up and really keen to get your questions! To get things started we thought we’d get them to ask each other a few puzzlers… Between them, our curators …
York Museums Trust was created as an independent charity to look after the city’s museums, gardens and gallery on behalf of the city. One of our first decisions was to remove the Council levied entrance charge to York Art Gallery making it free to all visitors. Like the protestors on Saturday, we would have …
Huge congratulations to Joshua Robinson from Lord Deramore’s Primary School who has won The Yorkshire Museum’s Lost Creatures competition. Children were invited to use our Extinct Gallery as inspiration for this schools competition. Their task was to study the different adaptations of animals on display alongside our examples of extinct and endangered species …
York Museums Trust is seeking new Trustees to support the organisation’s ambitions and plans in the years ahead. York Museums Trust (YMT) is an independent charity which manages York Castle Museum, Yorkshire Museum and Gardens, York Art Gallery and York St Mary’s on behalf of the City of York Council which owns the …
This Summer, come and enjoy some great events and activities at York Castle Museum, the Yorkshire Museum and York Art Gallery, which reopens on 1 August. At the Yorkshire Museum find out about Jorvik Life and take part in some great Viking activities. Over at York Castle Museum you can find out all about the how …
24 June 2015 Most significant Viking treasure to be found in Britain in 150 years on show from July 3 The most significant Viking treasure to be found in Britain in the last 150 years will return to York this summer after featuring in major exhibitions around Europe. The Vale of Viking Hoard was found by metal detectorists in January 2007 …
Date: June 2015 York Museums Trust is to launch its new YMT Card on 30 June 2015. EDIT: Please note as of spring 2021 the cards no longer exist. Get your YMT Card to visit three wonderful York attractions as many times as you like for a whole year. It’s the great value way to enjoy some of …
York Museums Trust is inviting tenders for the development and delivery of a brand-new exhibition the Shaping the Body exhibition. This exciting new project will bring together costume, art and archaeology from the collections across York Museums Trust to reveal the many factors that have an impact on body shape across the centuries; from economic …
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