Dr Kirk, the founder of York Castle Museum, collected colourful woven silk pictures showing Christmas scenes, portraits of notorious figures, such as the highwayman Dick Turpin, and famous buildings like York Minster.
Naomi Korn Copyright Consultant, will be answering your questions on Copyright on Friday 25 July 2014 between 3-4pm BST.
The next stage in searching for links between objects in York Castle Museum’s collection and evidence in the Board of Trade Representations and Registers of Designs 1839-1991, known widely as the BT Design Register, took me to The National Archives (TNA) in Kew Gardens, London.
As the excitement builds towards our new exhibition opening, we whet the appetites of visitors on Sunday 22nd by showcasing a series of First World War stories researched and written by York University English students.
The third century was a complicated and difficult period in the history the Roman Empire.
Three weeks; that is how long it took to turn a jumble of coins into an organized, identified, photographed, and catalogued 4th century Roman coin hoard. Specifically, the Haxby Hoard.
I recently joined what is affectionately referred to as a ‘hard-hat tour’. Yes, I swapped my stylish beret for a hard-hat, high-vis vest and toe-capped boots to explore York Art Gallery under construction.
Following six months of curatorial training at the National Gallery in London I’ve now swapped the bagpipers and buskers of Trafalgar Square for the distinguished chimes of the Minster clock to begin the next stage of my traineeship here at York Art Gallery.
“Archaeology is the search for fact, not truth….Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.” –Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
A volcanologist, watercolourist, botanist and forger….walk into a bar? No, in this case the unlikeliness of our characters was not the set up for a bad joke.
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