29 January 2016 York Residents’ Festival January 30th and 31st Make Roman face pots, try your hand at painting a still life and meet Victorian shop keepers as part of this year’s York Museums Trust events for York Residents’ Festival 2016. Residents with a Valid York Card or York Student Card are invited to York Art Gallery, …
21 December 2015 The William Smith Map in the Yorkshire Museum’s Historic Library has had to close in order for some essential maintenance work to take place. The library will have to be closed whilst this work is carried out. We would like to apologise for the inconvenience this may cause to our visitors and will …
10 December 2015 York Observatory in York Museum Gardens will be open to the public on Monday 14th December for a special FREE Stargazing event. Join York Museums Trust from 6pm- 8pm, a day ahead of British astronaut Tim Peake’s 173 day mission into space, for an evening of stargazing through the historic 1850’s Cooke telescope in …
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 …
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