20 November 2015 Search the loft, under the bed or the back of the wardrobe – York Castle Museum wants those pictures of you or your family in the most fashionable attire of the day – from punks to rockers, hippies to Spice Girl wannabes. Next march the museum is opening a new exhibition called Shaping the Body, looking …
16 November 2015 Primary school children are invited to give history a re-write with a new schools writing competition about those who dwelled in the dark and dingy cells of York Castle Prison. York Castle Museum sits on the site of York Castle Prison, where men and women awaited their fate; release, transportation or death. The powerful, …
28 October 2015 This October half term find out what creatures are lurking amongst the resident remains at the Yorkshire Museum’s Extinct Galleries. The Yorkshire Museum’s dinosaur footprints, huge sea reptiles, extinct Moa and Dodo will all be joined on select days by fluffy mammals, scaly reptiles and creepy crawlies! Emma Williams, assistant curator of …
22 October 2015 Illuminating York 28 – 31 October 2015, 6 – 10pm As the nights start drawing in, York is gearing up for the annual celebration of light that is the illuminating York Festival. Now in its 10th year, the Festival was one of the first of its kind in the UK and it continues to pursue new ways of showing this …
9 September 2015 #AskACurator – 16 September 2015 #AskACurator is a fantastic global event in which thousands of curators answer questions online. The 2015 event is on September 16 Our team are gearing up and really keen to get your questions! To get things started we thought we’d get them to ask each other a few puzzlers… Between them, our curators …
The Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) is part of York Museums Trust which set up a Subject Specialist Network (SSN) with the aim of bringing together people with an interest in Contemporary Studio Ceramics. We currently have over 130 members and want to expand further to increase the knowledge and celebration of studio ceramics. At the …
The Centre of Ceramic Art has a unique shop offering a range of work by artists working with clay. It will offer ranges of high-end ceramics, affordable pieces and anything in between. The same high standards that apply to acquisitions for York Art Gallery’s collection will be applied when choosing work. When acquiring work …
York Museums Trust was created as an independent charity to look after the city’s museums, gardens and gallery on behalf of the city. One of our first decisions was to remove the Council levied entrance charge to York Art Gallery making it free to all visitors. Like the protestors on Saturday, we would have …
Visitors that are interested in attending the YMT Card Holder’s preview event on 23 July at York Art Gallery are now able to turn up and purchase their YMT card on the day. Bookings are no longer required ahead of the event and visitors can purchase their cards from the Art Gallery welcome team on …
Release date: 31 July 2015 Laurence Stephen Lowry’s three works of York as well as a preliminary sketch will be reunited and shown together in public for the first time this August, for the reopening of York Art Gallery. In 1952 Lowry was commissioned by the gallery to paint a scene of the city for its annual …
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