York Art Gallery’s nationally important collection of works by Italian Old Masters will be the subject of new research to be carried out this year by Eloise Donnelly, a curatorial trainee who joins the Gallery as part of the National Gallery’s Curatorial Traineeship programme  supported by the Art Fund. The collection of 56 Italian …

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Enjoy some time with Dad this Fathers’ Day weekend and enter the Museum Meccano Challenge at YorkCastleMuseum on Saturday 14th June. Families are invited to design and build a model over the course of the day and have their creation put to the test in a special challenge! Steve Hutcheon, who will be leading the …

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Aesthetica is inviting the people of Yorkshire to cast their vote for the Aesthetica Art Prize People’s Choice Award this spring. Following on from the initial success of the exhibition, Aesthetica is giving local people the opportunity to choose their winner. Additionally, voters are entered into the Free Prize Draw with a chance of …

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To celebrate the Summer Solstice on Saturday the 21st June, the Yorkshire Museum is opening its doors for an unforgettable after-hours screening of the 1999 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Guests are invited to spend a magical midsummer night at the Museum with a complimentary glass of wine in the …

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Judges have cast their eye over the shortlisted ideas from York students, who are hoping their creations will be included in York Castle Museum’s new exhibition on the First World War. More than one thousand Key Stage Four and Five students from across the city have taken part in the competition to design a …

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The “most important” book in English literature, Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’, is on its way to the Yorkshire Museum to coincide with York Literature Festival.

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German artist Sybille Neumeyer was announced as the winner of the Main Prize for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 at the exhibition preview on 3 April. Her stunning light installation Song for the Last Queen (2013) is comprised of 7,614 bees – one eighth of the colony – that were collected from a naturally collapsed bee hive and placed as a …

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York Museums Trust has produced a document about the great achievements and exciting developments that have taken place in the past two years. Over the last two years, York Museums Trust, an independent charitable organisation, has excelled in many ways and in many areas. Major funding and increased income generation has allowed the Trust to …

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