Date: 11 September 2025
New Community Exhibition ‘Sugar, Skill and Shiftwork: York’s Confectionery Workers’ coming soon at York Castle Museum.
26 September 2025 – September 2026
York Castle Museum is delighted to announce the opening of a brand-new community-led exhibition later this month, celebrating York’s world-famous confectionery industries. The exhibition, Sugar, Skill and Shiftwork: York’s Confectionery Workers, delves …
Date: 4 September 2025
Christmas at York Castle Museum 2025
15 November 2025- 4 January 2026
Step into a festive wonderland at York Castle Museum this winter! Explore the famous Victorian Street, Kirkgate, to a soundtrack of traditional carols. Beautifully decorated trees will line the snow-covered cobblestones and fill the air with the scent of Christmas pine. Stunning period decorations …
Date: 26 June 2025
From the Factory Floor: York Castle Museum launches appeal for information about the confectionery community in the city
Have you or someone in your family worked at Rowntree’s/Nestle, Terry’s, Craven’s/Tangerine or other sweet factories in York? Did the smell of chocolate shape your memories of the city? York …
Date: 23 June 2025
York Museums Trust launch Creative Conversation Box Loan Scheme to support people with memory loss and social isolation
York Museums Trust have launched a new Creative Conversation Box Loan Scheme, designed to support people living with memory loss or experiencing social isolation through meaningful and engaging interactions, using themed objects and stories as …
Summer at York Castle Museum 2025
Inspired by the spectacle of Victorian summer galas,
visit the museum to celebrate the season in style!
19 July – 31 August 2025
Experience a Victorian extravaganza at York Castle Museum this summer! Inspired by the vibrant and colourful Victorian galas of years gone by, enjoy live music, exciting street performances, seasonal crafts and …
York Castle Museum’s Fashion Gallery has been refreshed, remodelled and enhanced for 2025 with new items and fresh interpretations to show ‘Secrets of Dress’ from the Middle Ages to the opening decades of the 21st century. Not just an exhibition about fashion, this is an opportunity to look at dress and textiles from the perspective …
DATE: 16 October 2024
Christmas at York Castle Museum
We’ve Got Christmas Covered!
16 November 2024 to 5 January 2025
Where can you experience the very best of a Victorian Christmas? Take a break from the 21st century and immerse yourself in all things traditional at York Castle Museum. The famous Victorian street, Kirkgate, welcomes visitors to wonder at the …
DATE: 4 July 2024
Time-travelling Summer Fun at York Castle Museum 2024
27 July- 1 September 2024
Roll up to York Castle Museum this summer holidays to enjoy lots of entertaining activities for all ages. There will be daily traditional games outside in the Exercise Yard, including favourites such as a ‘Ring Toss’ and ‘Plinko’, along with live performances three times …
DATE: May 2024
This extraordinary exhibition of the ordinary showcases 70 items that connect us to the Windrush Generation, objects that combined familiarity and practicality, and passed down the generations. ‘70 Objeks & Tings’, a small but powerful exhibition brought to York by Museumand, The National Caribbean Heritage Museum, opens from 19 June at the York Castle Museum.
Museumand …
DATE: 30 April 2024
Launch event will be hosted on Tuesday, 21 May from 3:30pm at York Explore’s Acomb Library
York Museums Trust is delighted to have successfully completed a third Heritage Hunters project, in partnership with York Explore, residents of Acomb and Westfield, artists and local heritage groups. From the remarkable story of early nineteenth century …
