York Museums Trust publish their second online exhibition for the Google Cultural Institute.

York Museums Trust has completed a second online exhibition, Yorkshire Hoards, in partnership with the Google Cultural Institute, giving online access to the Museum’s fascinating collection of buried treasures dating from the Bronze Age to the Civil War, 1000BC-1650AD.

As part of York Museums Trust’s digitisation strategy to make the museums’ collections more accessible to a wider audience, a second online exhibition has been published featuring a selection of the Yorkshire Museum’s hoards, including the Breckenbrough, Haxby And Warlaby hoards, which are not currently on public display.

The exhibition comes complete with hi-resolution images and video footage highlighting some of the most impressive finds in the area, focussing on coins and the history of money across the ages.

Andrew Woods, curator of numismatics at York Museums Trust, curated the exhibition. He said: “We are very excited to be a part of such an innovative, ground-breaking project.

“We are always looking to utilise new platforms for audience engagement and open up accessibility to our fantastic collections, particularly to those artefacts which we are unable to keep on public display.”

Other hoards featured in the online exhibition, which can be seen on display at the Yorkshire Museum, include the Westow hoard, the Bishophill hoard the Tadcaster hoard, the Walkington hoard and more, comprising of objects such as axe heads, arm-rings, ingots and coins.

The exhibition can be found on the Google Cultural Institute website

Plans are in place for further online exhibitions in partnership with the Google Cultural Institute including 1914: When the World Changed Forever- Key Objects from the Exhibition, which will be going live on Saturday 8th November to coincide with Remembrance Day.

The Google Cultural Institute is dedicated to creating technology that helps the cultural community to bring their art, archives, heritage sites and other material online. The aim is to increase the range and volume of material from the cultural world that is available for people to explore online and in doing so, democratise access to it and preserve it for future generations.

York Museum Trust is following in the footsteps of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which has also uploaded thousands of images of its collections for the public to use.