Join York Art Gallery, home to the Centre of Ceramic Art, for the annual Day of Clay on Saturday 3rd September 2022. This year’s event will feature hands-on opportunities, demonstrations, workshops, talks and performance art. Perfect for the whole family! Learn to throw on a wheel, tour the ‘Wall of Women’, draw with clay and …
New exhibition celebrating more than 50 years of Britain’s best loved picture book to open at York Castle Museum! A new exhibition celebrating the work of one of Britain’s best known children’s author–illustrators Judith Kerr is coming to York Castle Museum. From 10 September 2022, ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ will fill our …
Age UK York and York Museums Trust are delighted to be working in partnership to host three events for people to learn more about the York Castle Museum collection and to share personal memories of York. ‘York Memories and History Afternoons’ will feature a talk and a chance to handle a variety of artefacts from …
DATE: 12 July 2022 An exciting collaboration between York Art Gallery and Mediale to bring a series of bold cultural events and activities to York and beyond, has been announced today (12 July). Family workshops, the Teenage Art School, and ‘After Hours’ openings will be amongst the programme of events planned, which will be themed around and complement …
DATE: 7 July 2022 New for Summer 2022, try our new display of historic penny arcade machines at York Castle Museum! York Castle Museum is excited to open ‘Mechanical Marvels’, a new display of historic penny arcade machines, on 15 July 2022. Fourteen weird and wonderful twentieth century machines will go on display across the museum for people of all …
DATE: 24 June 2022 A collage of beautiful postcards, created by students from Clifton Green Primary School, is now display at the entrance of York Castle Museum to welcome Ukrainian refugee families to York. Six designs have been printed professionally as postcards and will be handed out as part of partnership between Clifton Green Primary School and …
A striking artwork has transformed the front of York Art Gallery as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2022 exhibition. Portico by Steve Messam is one of the shortlisted works displayed at York Art Gallery from Friday 24 June. The temporary, eye-catching installation, exploits colour and scale, creating a moment of interruption in the familiar. Steve Messam …
DATE: 13 June 2022 York Art Gallery has acquired a new artwork by notable British artist Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS, thanks to the generosity of the Friends of York Art Gallery. The oil painting ‘Early Morning in a Gypsy Camp’, 1953, is now on public display in the Burton Gallery as part of the permanent collection. …
DATE: 11 May 2022 The first York Museum Gardens Pop Up Plant Shop will take place on Saturday 21st May. Just in time for planting season, a range of plants grown from cuttings and seed, as well as surplus plants from the Gardens will be available to buy. The Pop Up Plant Shop will focus …
DATE: 10 May 2022 The Legions of Rome set to take over York Museum Gardens on 25 & 26 June 2022 York Museums Trust is excited to announce that the much loved Eboracum Roman Festival will be returning this summer! The Legions of Rome are set to take over the historic York Museum Gardens on 25 & 26 June, and promises to …
