16 March 2016 YMT Card Holders are invited to join us for special previews of our two fantastic new exhibitions, which will both open to the public on Friday 25 March 2016. The YMT Card preview events are – Shaping the Body at York Castle Museum on Wednesday 23 March 2pm – 7pm Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World …
16 March 2016 “History repeating!” That’s how George Osborne’s announcement today of a sugar tax on companies producing sugary drinks has been described by historians in York, who have compared the measure destined to raise £520 million in tax to the original Sugar Tax that raised £1 million per year from 1764 to 1874. “Until the early 19th century, …
Reading the newspapers and celebrity magazines, one could easily imagine that the generously proportioned posteriors of Kim Kardashian and J-Lo were a completely new phenomenon, but visitors to a new permanent exhibition at York Castle Museum will discover that displaying a rounded rump has been a fashion staple for centuries! “Since Elizabethan times, with a …
29 January 2016 York Residents’ Festival January 30th and 31st Make Roman face pots, try your hand at painting a still life and meet Victorian shop keepers as part of this year’s York Museums Trust events for York Residents’ Festival 2016. Residents with a Valid York Card or York Student Card are invited to York Art Gallery, …
18 January 2016 York Castle Museum has been awarded the highest honour in a vote of best tourist attractions in York, by a local family-friendly magazine. The museum has been announced as Best Attraction in the 2016 Little Vikings awards, as voted by its readers. Thousands of people voted across a number of award categories with York Castle …
18 December 2015 York Castle Museum’s Victorian Christmas Experience events are now completely sold out. We would like to thank all visitors that have booked to attend the events and look forward to welcoming you to the museum over the next few evenings. We are still open every day in the run up to Christmas and …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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