York Museums Trust is a proud participant in I Love Museums, a new campaign led by the National Museum Directors’ Council (NMDC) to demonstrate the depth of support for UK museums by empowering you, the public, to share why museums are important to you. Museums and galleries are more popular than ever – each year there …

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The Yorkshire Museum would like to inform visitors that the Escrick Ring is currently off display whilst some essential maintenance is conducted to its display case within the exhibition space. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this may cause. The maintenance is expected to be completed by the middle of the week commencing 15 June. …

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Experts from the University of Manchester have identified Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur from a fossil bone discovered on the Yorkshire coast. The vertebra (backbone) originates from a group of dinosaurs that includes the largest land animals to have ever walked on Earth. This new sauropod dinosaur, from the Middle Jurassic Period at about 176 million …

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York Museums Trust has appointed the former Head of Heritage Lottery Fund West Midlands as its new Chief Executive, starting in November this year. Reyahn King, 50, has also worked as the Director of Art Galleries at National Museums Liverpool, and Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. She will follow Dr …

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The Yorkshire Museum has launched a new competition inviting primary school children to create their very own unique ‘creature’. ‘Lost Creatures’ is a primary school competition that invites children to create their own animal using the Yorkshire Museum’s Extinct Gallery as inspiration, looking at some of the special features animals and birds have evolved …

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Please note that the Reading Room in the Yorkshire Museum will be closed intermittently from today to allow for an exhibition redisplay. Our new exhibition ‘William Smith: The story of the rocks’ will be open from Friday 22nd May. The Reading Room will be open on some days until 18th May. Please call ahead if …

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Due to urgent maintenance the History of York Audio Visual Display in the Tempest Anderson Hall is currently unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and will make an announcement as soon as possible when it is open to visitors again.

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York Museums Trust is developing a new, free ‘Teaching Prehistory’ online resource pack and would like teachers of Key Stage 2 pupils to be involved in the development process through a focus group on 21 May. The resources will be based on objects from Yorkshire museum collections and will support the new National Curriculum for history. The …

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23 – 31 May 2015 Come along to this May half term see the brand new exhibition at York Castle Museum marking 200 years since the the Battle of Waterloo whilst at the Yorkshire Museum find out about William Smith, the founder of Geology and take part in some great map making and orienteering activities. Activities are included in museum …

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Get “dough-eyed” at York Venues Wedding Fair on Sunday 29th March with everything from dazzling dresses to delicious doughnuts available for your big day. Guests will find around 40 stalls offering services such as floristry, bridal dress designs, personalised stationary and quirky extras such as ice-cream carts and even a doughnut stand! Jennifer Chadwick, weddings and …

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