Free Online Talk – Emily North: Roman Yorkshire’s metalworkers 15 December, 5:30pm Free online Talk / Streamed live on YouTube Sign up here for talk reminders and links sent to your inbox The Ryedale Hoard is an example of highly skilled metalworking and might have been a metalworker’s valuable stock of bronze. Join Emily North to […]

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Christmas Lino Printing workshop at York Castle Museum! Book tickets here! About this event Be inspired by our Victorian Collection at York Castle Museum and create your very own printed Christmas wrapping paper and cards under the guidance of artist Megan, who will show you the basics of lino printing in this three-hour workshop. Lino […]

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Join us at York Castle Museum to make your own Christmas Cracker, complete with gift to go inside! Book tickets now! About this event Get some festive feels while learning about the history of the Christmas cracker and creating your own colourful cracker to pull on Christmas day. Our artist will help get you feeling […]

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Join us at York Castle Museum to make your own Christmas Cracker, complete with gift to go inside! Book tickets now! About this event Get some festive feels while learning about the history of the Christmas cracker and creating your own colourful cracker to pull on Christmas day. Our artist will help get you feeling […]

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Join us at York Castle Museum to make your own Christmas Cracker, complete with gift to go inside! Book tickets now! About this event Get some festive feels while learning about the history of the Christmas cracker and creating your own colourful cracker to pull on Christmas day. Our artist will help get you feeling […]

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1.30pm – 3.30pm, free Art activities to release your creative energy! Set in the beautiful surroundings of York Art Gallery’s Studio space, this 2 hour workshop gives opportunity for discovery and time to explore a variety of art materials and inspiring themes designed to promote wellbeing. Enjoy the company of others, creating art with gentle guidance […]

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11th January, 1:30pm-3:30pm, £5 per person Book tickets here. Fill your sketchbooks at this regular informal drawing group for Adults (16+ only). Take inspiration from our collection at York Art Gallery and enhance your drawing skills with the help and support of a community artist. Sessions will also run on one Wednesday each month as […]

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Included in exhibition admission  21 January 2023 10:15am, 11:15am, 1:15pm, 2:15pm, 3:15pm  ‘Thinking-through images’ is a live dance intervention from Creative Producer and dancer Tala Lee-Turton and Creative Photographer Xenia Bakshinskaya in collaboration with and in response to Zara Worth’s installation Think of a door (temptation/redemption). Over the course of the day Lee-Turton and Bakshinskaya […]

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26 January, 4:30pm Free online Talk / Streamed live on YouTube and Facebook Sign up here for talk reminders and links sent to your inbox The Ryedale Hoard is a new and interesting group of objects from Yorkshire buried in the 2nd century AD. The reasons for their burial remain a mystery, but one possible explanation is that […]

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We’re thrilled to be hosting one of the sculptures from the York Ice Trail this year! It will be based on the 13cm bust of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius which is part of the Ryedale Hoard, one of our most significant acquisitions in recent years. The objects were found by metal detectorists James Spark and […]

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