York Museums Trust

Events - 26 Sep 14

Museum Monkeys: Museum Baby – Fri 26 Sep 2014

Date: Friday 26 September 2014, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Venue: Yorkshire Museum

Special baby sessions linked to exhibitions, including storytelling, songs and sensory activities for babies and their carers. Sessions are a mixture of free flow and adult led activities which all relate to the Early Years curriculum. A perfect introduction to museums!

Please note that regular non-attendees may be asked to cancel their bookings to allow others to participate. Sessions run in term time only.

Sessions are free but admission applies. Yorkcard holders go free.

Bookings for September and October Sessions open 1 September whilst bookings for November and December sessions open 20 October.

Book for a free five week block of sessions: Click here to book your place on our Eventbrite page.

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In the Museum Night Garden – Part of YorNight – Fri 26 Sep 2014

Date: Friday 26 September 2014, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum

A chance for families to take part in free, fun and hands on activities in the Yorkshire Museum and the Museum Gardens.

Learn more about the history beneath our feet; from sea monsters and dinosaurs to Romans and Vikings. With nocturnal stories in our enchanted, fairy lit glade, historic arts and craft activities, children’s trails, an archaeological forensic mystery to solve and a chance to meet the experts.

Learn about some of the latest discoveries and research on the museum’s collections, there is bound to be something for everyone.

FREE No need to book. Includes admission.

For more information about YorNight visit www.yornight.com

Funded by the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Framework Programme H2020 (2014-2020) by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Directorate-General for Education and Culture. European Commission under Grant Agreement No. 633344

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A Colourful Past – How Can We Reconstruct the Colour of Extinct Animals? – Fri 26 Sep 2014

Date: Friday 26 September 2014, 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum

Lecture by Johan Gren – Part of YorNight

For centuries we have been fascinated by large, extinct animals – such as dinosaurs and marine reptiles – and the way we look at these animals has repeatedly changed as we have learned more about their lifestyles.

One question has, however, always been left to the artists’ impressions: What colour did they have? Only a few years ago we thought we would never see an answer to this question, but thanks to recent advances in a new field called ‘Molecular Palaeontology’, we have been provided with the tools to reconstruct a truly colourful past.

FREE Free admission.

For more information about YorNight visit www.yornight.com

Funded by the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Framework Programme H2020 (2014-2020) by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Directorate-General for Education and Culture. European Commission under Grant Agreement No. 633344

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When Huge Hyaenas Hunted Big Game Across Yorkshire – Fri 26 Sep 2014

Date: Friday 26 September 2014, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum

Lecture by Professor Patrick Boylan – Part of YorNight

The 1821 recognition by Professor William Buckland of the world’s first fossil hyaena den in Kirkdale Cave, near Kirby Moorside, was a scientific sensation around the scientific world. Since then very many others have been identified in many other parts of the world, as well as others elsewhere in Yorkshire, all directly comparable with what Professor

Adam Sedgwick named “our Yorkshire Hyaenopolis”. Professor Patrick Boylan of City University London, is President of the Yorkshire Geological Society, and Kirkdale Cave and similar Pleistocene sites elsewhere have been one of his major research interests for over 40 years.

FREE

Free admission.

For more information about YorNight visit www.yornight.com

Funded by the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Framework Programme H2020 (2014-2020) by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Directorate-General for Education and Culture. European Commission under Grant Agreement No. 633344

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New Light on an Ancient City: The Archaeology of Roman York – Fri 26 Sep 2014

Date: Friday 26 September 2014, 7:45 pm - 8:45 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum

Part of YorNight.

A special lecture by Patrick Ottaway, Archaeologist and Author of Roman York.

FREE

Free admission.

For more information about YorNight visit www.yornight.com

Funded by the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Framework Programme H2020 (2014-2020) by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Directorate-General for Education and Culture. European Commission under Grant Agreement No. 633344

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