DATE: 8 July 2019
A friendly reminder that the museum garden located at the Yorkshire Museum will be closing early on upcoming Sunday 14th at 3 pm due to maintenance.
The gate will be closing at 2 pm so we ask you to be off the garden around that time before we accidentally lock you in!
However, the Yorkshire …
DATE: 20 June 2019
York residents are invited to visit three of York’s most popular attractions for free this weekend.
York Art Gallery, the Yorkshire Museum and York Castle Museum are all free to York residents over the weekend of June 29 and 30.
Visitors to York Castle Museum’s new exhibition The Museum of Broken Relationships can …
DATE: 20 June 2019
Nicolas Poussin’s The Triumph of Pan, one of the National Gallery’s most significant works, will be the centrepiece of a new exhibition at York Art Gallery this summer.
The work depicts a mythical celebration of nymphs and satyrs revelling before a statue of Pan, Greek god of the wild.
Works from …
DATE: 3 May 2019
Large scale sculptures by internationally acclaimed artist Michael Lyons will be displayed in a major new outside exhibition in York this spring.
Ancient and Modern will include nine sculptures inspired by nature, myth and ancient cultures.
Lyons, who died suddenly in April 2019, worked from Cawood, North Yorkshire, with this the first major exhibition …
DATE: 1 May 2019
One of York Theatre Royal pantomime dame Berwick Kaler’s spectacular costumes will be installed as the highlight of the re-display of York Castle Museum’s Shaping the Body exhibition.
The glitterball costume was worn by Berwick in the ‘walk-down’ finale of the 2018-19 pantomime The Grand Old Dame of York, his 40th …
DATE: 23 April 2019
The dinosaurs and sea monsters of Jurassic Yorkshire have helped the Yorkshire Museum have a huge 12 months – with visitor numbers the highest since York Museums Trust was formed in 2002.
More than 163,000 people came to the museum between April 2018 and April 2019.
This was 36% up on the previous financial year which is the second most …
DATE: 3 April 2019
Large scale sculptures by internationally acclaimed artist Michael Lyons will be displayed in a major new outside exhibition in York this spring.
Ancient and Modern will include nine sculptures inspired by nature, myth and ancient cultures.
Based in nearby Cawood, this is Lyons’ first major exhibition in York.
They will be displayed in …
DATE: 22 March 2019
A can of love incense that “doesn’t work”, a torn wedding dress from a failed marriage and a York teapot bought for a reunion of a long lost brother and sister are included in a brand new exhibition at York Castle Museum.
Just as Britain is set to break up with the …
DATE: 19 March 2019
We’re sorry to say this event has now been cancelled.
Do you think the European Union is a tired teabag ready for the bin or a perfectly blended cup of the good stuff?
Either way, York Castle Museum would like to invite you to join us in our Brexit Café next month …
DATE: 21 February 2019
An expert in large scale strategic property and regeneration projects has been named the new Chair of the Trustees for York Museums Trust (YMT).
James Grierson, from York, has been a member and Vice Chair of the Trustees since 2014.
A qualified chartered surveyor, James was a partner and executive board member of the …