Date: Sunday 28 September 2025, 11:00 am-3:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Sunday 28th of September
Free event No booking required
As part of York Food and Drink Festival, please join us for a Dosti Friendship Picnic in York Museum Gardens.
Please meet at the Pavilion and bring your own Picnic, rugs and chairs. Activities include arts and crafts, traditional music and teapot yoga.
NHS services and screenings, and a prayer room is available to use.
Date: Tuesday 30 September 2025, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Free | Donations welcome | Book now
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. Meet outside the Yorkshire Museum on the hardstanding.
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
Additional Gardening Tours will take place 9 October, 11-12pm; 15 October, 1-2pm; 21 October, 12-1pm.
Date: Wednesday 1 October 2025, 2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
Date: Thursday 9 October 2025, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Free | Donations welcome | Book now
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. Meet outside the Yorkshire Museum on the hardstanding.
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
Additional Gardening Tours will take place 15 October, 1-2pm and 21 October, 12-1pm.
Date: Thursday 9 October 2025, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Viking North: Primary School Teachers’ CPD Event
9 October 2025
4.30 – 6.30pm | Free | Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants and support staff
Booking essential. Spaces limited, register now
Discover ways of bringing the story of Viking England to life in the classroom in this new CPD workshop for Primary School educators at Yorkshire Museum.
Enjoy a tour of the new Viking North exhibition, handle original Viking artefacts, and learn about the activities and resources that we can offer schools at the Yorkshire Museum. You’ll also get to hear about some exciting upcoming projects.
Tea, coffee and cake will be served at this event.
Date: Friday 10 October 2025, 2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Friday 10 October, 2pm | Included in general admission
One of Kirkgate’s historical coaches will be undergoing conservation work between 6 – 17 October. Objects conservator Dr Alaina Schmisseur of Rook Heritage Consulting and specialist decorative arts conservator Helen Gartside-Jones will be working to conserve the object.
Join Dr Schmisseur for a short, insightful talk about the conservation work. Learn about the work being carried out on the 200 year-old carriage, with an opportunity to ask questions.
This talk will take place on Kirkgate near the carriage and is free with admission. Booking is not required.
Prior to setting up RCH, Dr Schmisseur worked with collections at the National Museum Wales, National Railway Museum and Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute as well as numerous other heritage organisations in the UK and abroad.
There is another Conservation Talk by Dr Schmisseur on 17 October, 2pm. Discover more.
Date: Saturday 11 October 2025, 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
Join us at York Art Gallery for life drawing workshops; whether you are a regular participant, would like to hone your skills, or try life drawing for the first time, these regular two-hour immersive Saturday sessions, led by Rob Oldfield, are a wonderful way to experience life drawing in a supportive and friendly environment.
Date: Wednesday 15 October 2025, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Free | Donations welcome | Book now
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. Meet outside the Yorkshire Museum on the hardstanding.
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.
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.
Date: Friday 17 October 2025, 2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum
Friday 10 October, 2pm | Included in general admission
One of Kirkgate’s historical coaches will be undergoing conservation work between 6 – 17 October. Objects conservator Dr Alaina Schmisseur of Rook Heritage Consulting and specialist decorative arts conservator Helen Gartside-Jones will be working to conserve the object.
Join Dr Schmisseur for a short, insightful talk about the conservation work. Learn about the work being carried out on the 200 year-old carriage, with an opportunity to ask questions.
This talk will take place on Kirkgate near the carriage and is free with admission. Booking is not required.
Prior to setting up RCH, Dr Schmisseur worked with collections at the National Museum Wales, National Railway Museum and Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute as well as numerous other heritage organisations in the UK and abroad.
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