Date: Friday 10 October 2025, 2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum

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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.

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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.

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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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Date: Friday 17 October 2025, 2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Venue: York Castle Museum

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Date: Saturday 18 October 2025, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum

Saturday 18 October 2025 | Throughout the day | Included in general admission 

Watch live cooking demonstrations throughout the day in our studio kitchen.

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Date: Sunday 19 October 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery

10.30am – 12.30pm, free

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Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025, 12:00 pm-1:00 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.

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

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Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025, 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery

 1:30pm-3:30pm, £5 per person (capacity: 20) 

(Tickets will be available to book soon)

Pick up a pencil – draw and discover!

Give yourself time to sharpen and share your drawing skills in this two-hour sketching workshop with artist Griselda Goldsbrough.

Enjoy working in sketchbooks in a relaxed and friendly group, taking inspiration from the collections at York Art Gallery. Materials provided.

These informal practical art sessions are for adults only (16+) and are suitable for absolute beginners or those who create regularly.

Sessions will run on one Wednesday each month (Please book separately for each session).

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Dates: Friday 24 October 2025–Sunday 2 November 2025, 5:00 pm-9:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens

Echoes of Yorkshire: The Museum Illuminated
24 October – 2 November 2025
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Light, colour and music surround you at the extraordinary light and sound installation created by internationally acclaimed Luxmuralis in the York Museum Gardens this autumn.  Immerse yourself in the story of the historic site with contemporary light and music showcasing the Yorkshire Museum’s age-defining artefacts and extraordinary exhibits. Join us to celebrate all that the museum and its gardens bring to our city and the wider north of England.

Perfect for the whole family, experience the gardens’ history from the Roman period to its time as an Abbey, and discover the Yorkshire Museum collection spanning 60 million years from the Jurassic, the Mesolithic, through to the Romans, Viking, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval. Luxmuralis is all about fine art, light and sound reflecting closely on the history and heritage of places and weaves together the contemporary and the ancient, making York Museum Gardens the perfect location for such a show!

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