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 28 August
Enhance your greenspaces with wildflower seeds from York Museum Gardens!
Take home a piece of York Museum Gardens and create your own natural wildflower habitat to support pollinators and wildlife! After the success of the wildflower meadow for the second summer season, York Museum Gardens is once again collecting the seeds …
Date: 19 August 2025
Adopt an object: Sponsor a Viking artefact at the Yorkshire Museum.
The Yorkshire Museum has launched a new object-focused fundraising programme, ‘Adopt an Object’. The programme provides the opportunity for annual sponsorship of some of the incredible collections from the recently opened Viking North exhibition.
‘Adopt an Object’ offers the chance to …
Date: 12 August 2025
Contemporary artists Squidsoup and Liz West are set to exhibit a range of immersive works at York Art Gallery in a brand-new installation entitled Future Tense: Art in the Age of Transformation, running from 19 September 2025 – 25 January 2026.
Squidsoup is an artist collective who create immersive digital installations utilising light, sound, and space. Their …
Date: 12 August 2025
The Aesthetica Art Prize returns to York Art Gallery from 19 September 2025 – 25 January 2026. Celebrating its 19th anniversary, the Prize supports the work and creativity of a wide range of incredible contemporary artists, all working across different art forms and attracting national and international attention and prestige.
25 of the shortlisted works, ranging from paintings and …
Date: 6 August 2025
The internationally renowned Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) at York Art Gallery has undergone a major redisplay of its ceramics collection. Titled Not a Pot, the new exhibition showcases the wide range of sculptural pottery in York Art Gallery’s collection. Marking the passing of one of the UK’s most influential …
DATE: 29 July 2025
Melsonby Hoard saved for the UK thanks to National Heritage Memorial Fund and public support.
The Yorkshire Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £192,096 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund alongside support from public fundraising to acquire the Melsonby Hoard for future generations.
Discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021 near the …
Press Release: 15 July 2025
Living Art in York Museum Gardens: Harland Miller’s ‘Far Out’ in Florals.
Art and nature beautifully blend in York Museum Gardens this summer due to an exciting collaboration with York Art Gallery, introducing a popular artwork into the gardens in a unique and stunning way.
York Art Gallery’s current …
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 …
