Kyla Hollis, our new Friends of York Art Gallery Research Scholar talks about the work she has been doing so far. The English Civil War: a sticky subject to be sure, full of upheavals, revelations, and change. Yet, it was this period that gave way to a group of great thinkers, artists, and craftsmen known …
University of York Partnership student Maddy Pelling examines fragments of a free standing Anglo-Saxon stone cross in the Yorkshire Museum.
Learning Officers from Humberside Museum Partnership will be answering your questions on Working with Under 5s on Tuesday 1 December between 2-3pm GMT. The Humber Museum Partnership includes the Museum Services of Hull, North Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. The consortium is funded by the Arts Council of England as a Major Partnership …
Collection Facilitator Fiona Green talks about the Centre of Ceramic’s Art most unusual acquisition.
Communications Assistant Rachel Wade brings us up to speed on the latest environmental programmes and plans at the trust. York Museums Trust became an independent charitable trust on 1 August 2002 having previously been run by the City of York Council. One of our organisation’s key objectives is to protect and conserve the collections, gardens and …
Jael Williams and Ginn Scholey from Cape UK will be answering your questions on the Arts Award on Friday 13 November between 2-3pm GMT. During times of economic, political and social change we all need to explore new ways of working and new partners to work with. Arts Award is relatively new to the Museums …
Kerrie Hoffman, Finds Liaison Assistant with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, talks about her experience as an intern.
Just in time for Halloween, our Centre of Ceramic Art volunteer Lisa Grabowski has written about some of the more unsettling works in the Anthony Shaw Collection. What was there?! Sweat gathered on my brow, hands became clammy, my heart raced and tore at my chest. A scratching, whining howl emanated from the corner of …
Riccardo Caravello’s British Numismatic Society internship has had him examining fascinating coins at York Museums Trust (YMT) and the York Archaeological Trust (YAT). You can read more about his initial work here. When I came back to Peter Wenham’s coins after 2 weeks spent in the YAT store it was to try to determine …
Yorkshire Museum volunteer Stephanie Parkinson reveals one of the fascinating Egyptian treasures she has been studying in the collections. Over the course of the past few months, I have been documenting and researching some of the amazing ancient Egyptian collections held in the Yorkshire Museum. During this research a small, seemingly unremarkable, object captured my …
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