Date: Wednesday 15 October 2025, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens

Free | Tickets available soon.

Curious and Creative Gardening Tour: Wildlife-Friendly Museum Gardens

Join the Gardens Team to learn about the initiatives and interventions made to make York Museum Gardens more wildlife friendly. Take a tour around over 10 acres of grounds, discovering inspiration for your own garden or workplace green spaces.

You’ll learn about climate change and biodiversity, discover the importance of insects for the food chain and how to manage your green space throughout the seasons to create wildlife habitat, and adopt a new perspective with some native weeds.

The tour will take an accessible route around the Museum Gardens.

Please note: This event is weather dependent. If we need to cancel the tour due to adverse weather conditions, ticket holders will be notified.

Recommended for ages 12+, under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.

This tour is one of 60+ free events taking place across the city for York Environment Festival. #yorkenvironmentfestival2025

An additional Gardening Tours will take place 21 October, 12-1pm.

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Date: Wednesday 15 October 2025, 2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery

Joanne Coates is a visual artist from North of England whose work explores rural working class identity, ecological change, and class politics. Her practice is grounded in photography, installation, and collaboration with communities across the UK. Coates has received international recognition including the Jerwood/Photoworks Award, the Hopper Prize, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art’s Vasseur Artist Award. In 2024, she was appointed Election Artist by the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art for the House of Commons. Her work continues to focus on a gendered perspective of overlooked voices in rural Britain questioning the visibility, labour, and power.

Talk is included in General Admission.

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