Date: Sunday 28 September 2025, 11:00 am-3:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Sunday 28th of September
Free event No booking required
As part of York Food and Drink Festival, please join us for a Dosti Friendship Picnic in York Museum Gardens.
Please meet at the Pavilion and bring your own Picnic, rugs and chairs. Activities include arts and crafts, traditional music and teapot yoga.
NHS services and screenings, and a prayer room is available to use.
Date: Tuesday 30 September 2025, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Free | Donations welcome | Book now
Curious and Creative Gardening Tour: Wildlife-Friendly Museum Gardens
Join the Gardens Team to learn about the initiatives and interventions made to make York Museum Gardens more wildlife friendly. Take a tour around over 10 acres of grounds, discovering inspiration for your own garden or workplace green spaces.
You’ll learn about climate change and biodiversity, discover the importance of insects for the food chain and how to manage your green space throughout the seasons to create wildlife habitat, and adopt a new perspective with some native weeds.
The tour will take an accessible route around the Museum Gardens. Meet outside the Yorkshire Museum on the hardstanding.
Please note: This event is weather dependent. If we need to cancel the tour due to adverse weather conditions, ticket holders will be notified.
Recommended for ages 12+, under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.
This tour is one of 60+ free events taking place across the city for York Environment Festival. #yorkenvironmentfestival2025
Additional Gardening Tours will take place 9 October, 11-12pm; 15 October, 1-2pm; 21 October, 12-1pm.
Date: Thursday 9 October 2025, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Free | Donations welcome | Book now
Curious and Creative Gardening Tour: Wildlife-Friendly Museum Gardens
Join the Gardens Team to learn about the initiatives and interventions made to make York Museum Gardens more wildlife friendly. Take a tour around over 10 acres of grounds, discovering inspiration for your own garden or workplace green spaces.
You’ll learn about climate change and biodiversity, discover the importance of insects for the food chain and how to manage your green space throughout the seasons to create wildlife habitat, and adopt a new perspective with some native weeds.
The tour will take an accessible route around the Museum Gardens. Meet outside the Yorkshire Museum on the hardstanding.
Please note: This event is weather dependent. If we need to cancel the tour due to adverse weather conditions, ticket holders will be notified.
Recommended for ages 12+, under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.
This tour is one of 60+ free events taking place across the city for York Environment Festival. #yorkenvironmentfestival2025
Additional Gardening Tours will take place 15 October, 1-2pm and 21 October, 12-1pm.
Date: Thursday 9 October 2025, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Viking North: Primary School Teachers’ CPD Event
9 October 2025
4.30 – 6.30pm | Free | Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants and support staff
Booking essential. Spaces limited, register now
Discover ways of bringing the story of Viking England to life in the classroom in this new CPD workshop for Primary School educators at Yorkshire Museum.
Enjoy a tour of the new Viking North exhibition, handle original Viking artefacts, and learn about the activities and resources that we can offer schools at the Yorkshire Museum. You’ll also get to hear about some exciting upcoming projects.
Tea, coffee and cake will be served at this event.
Date: Wednesday 15 October 2025, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Free | Donations welcome | Book now
Curious and Creative Gardening Tour: Wildlife-Friendly Museum Gardens
Join the Gardens Team to learn about the initiatives and interventions made to make York Museum Gardens more wildlife friendly. Take a tour around over 10 acres of grounds, discovering inspiration for your own garden or workplace green spaces.
You’ll learn about climate change and biodiversity, discover the importance of insects for the food chain and how to manage your green space throughout the seasons to create wildlife habitat, and adopt a new perspective with some native weeds.
The tour will take an accessible route around the Museum Gardens. Meet outside the Yorkshire Museum on the hardstanding.
Please note: This event is weather dependent. If we need to cancel the tour due to adverse weather conditions, ticket holders will be notified.
Recommended for ages 12+, under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.
This tour is one of 60+ free events taking place across the city for York Environment Festival. #yorkenvironmentfestival2025
An additional Gardening Tours will take place 21 October, 12-1pm.
Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Free | Donations welcome | Book now
Curious and Creative Gardening Tour: Wildlife-Friendly Museum Gardens
Join the Gardens Team to learn about the initiatives and interventions made to make York Museum Gardens more wildlife friendly. Take a tour around over 10 acres of grounds, discovering inspiration for your own garden or workplace green spaces.
You’ll learn about climate change and biodiversity, discover the importance of insects for the food chain and how to manage your green space throughout the seasons to create wildlife habitat, and adopt a new perspective with some native weeds.
The tour will take an accessible route around the Museum Gardens.
Please note: This event is weather dependent. If we need to cancel the tour due to adverse weather conditions, ticket holders will be notified.
Recommended for ages 12+, under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.
This tour is one of 60+ free events taking place across the city for York Environment Festival. #yorkenvironmentfestival2025
Dates: Friday 24 October 2025–Sunday 2 November 2025, 5:00 pm-9:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Echoes of Yorkshire: The Museum Illuminated
24 October – 2 November 2025
Book now
Light, colour and music surround you at the extraordinary light and sound installation created by internationally acclaimed Luxmuralis in the York Museum Gardens this autumn. Immerse yourself in the story of the historic site with contemporary light and music showcasing the Yorkshire Museum’s age-defining artefacts and extraordinary exhibits. Join us to celebrate all that the museum and its gardens bring to our city and the wider north of England.
Perfect for the whole family, experience the gardens’ history from the Roman period to its time as an Abbey, and discover the Yorkshire Museum collection spanning 60 million years from the Jurassic, the Mesolithic, through to the Romans, Viking, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval. Luxmuralis is all about fine art, light and sound reflecting closely on the history and heritage of places and weaves together the contemporary and the ancient, making York Museum Gardens the perfect location for such a show!
Date: Saturday 25 October 2025, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Venue: The Hospitium
Join us for York Museums Trust’s Fundraising Dinner 2025
Experience Echoes of Yorkshire: The Museum Illuminated in York Museum Gardens, a captivating new light show created by Luxmuralis. Afterwards let us welcome you into the beautiful and historic Hospitium for an evening celebrating the vital work of York Museums Trust.
Experience ‘Echoes of Yorkshire: The Museum Illuminated’ in York Museum Gardens, a captivating new light show created by Luxmuralis. Afterwards let us welcome you into the beautiful and historic Hospitium for an evening of entertainment and delicious food as we celebrate the vital work of York Museums Trust.
Your presence will help support the conservation and exhibition of the Melsonby Hoard and we look forward to sharing this memorable evening with you!
Tickets include: Canapes and welcome drink on arrival, a two-course dinner, entertainment, and exciting fundraising opportunities.
Timings: Light Show 6pm – 7pm, Drinks 7pm – 7.30pm, Dinner 8pm
Location: The Hospitium, York Museum Gardens
Price: £100 per person, or £900 for a table of ten
York Museums Trust is a registered charity that cares for York Castle Museum, York Art Gallery, the Yorkshire Museum, York Museum Gardens and York St Mary’s. As an independent charity, we rely on the generosity of our supporters to continue sharing our spaces, art, stories, and history for learning, enjoyment, and wellbeing.
Charity number: 1092466.
Date: Sunday 26 October 2025, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Meet me at the Yorkshire Museum: Viking North
26 October 2025
11am – 4pm | Included in general admission | Suitable for all ages
Book now
There are only two seasons in the Viking world.
Summer and Winter.
It is winter.
Night and day are dark and the air is cold. Raids must stop. Longboats are pulled out of the freezing river onto land, and the Great Army must shelter from the harsh weather.
In the dark, fire meets ice and crackles. A story can be heard on the wind. A tune is played. A laugh rings out!
This summer, visit the Winter… as the camp dwellers bring the dark season to life with stories, music, games and laughter.
Meet characters from the Winter camp and discover more from the Viking North exhibition through live performance and interactive interpretation with History Riot.
Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025, 10:30 am-3:30 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
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