Date: Sunday 25 May 2025, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
Included in general admission
Date: Sunday 25 May 2025, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
Colour
Sunday 25 May 2025
10.30am – 1.30pm | £40
Book here | SOLD OUT
A letterpress workshop delivered by Thin Ice Press.
Colour is crucial to Harland Miller’s art. He has suggested, for instance, that ‘pink … suggests levity, the same subject in green has more gravity’. Join us for a fun workshop on colour and its impacts. Participants will create a set of keywords in wood type, and we will print them in multiple colours, playing with meaning, visual effect, and emotion. All participants will go home with a set of A3 posters, celebrating what colour can do, and how Miller’s work helps us to experience it differently.
Date: Sunday 25 May 2025, 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Roman Coins in Everyday Use with David Michaels
25 May 2025 | 1pm – 1.30pm | Discovery Den, Yorkshire Museum | Free, booking required | Book Now
As most people know, Roman soldiers founded and settled Eboracum, the ancient name for York. But how much were they paid, and how did they live on their wages? What kinds of food, clothes, lodging and luxury goods could they buy? Numismatist David Michaels of Classical Numismatic Group, in the guise of Senior Centurion Titus Flavius Crispus of Legio VI Victrix, along with his purse-managing wife Pompeia Pulchra (Lorie Rodrigues), will answer these questions and more in a 30-minute presentation at the Eboracum Roman Festival. The presentation includes an opportunity to handle real Roman coins from the Yorkshire Museum collection.
Date: Monday 26 May 2025, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
Included in general admission
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025, All Day
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Make a mosaic inspired by our beautiful Roman mosaic at the Yorkshire Museum in this fun and informal drop in workshop suitable for all the family.
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025, All Day
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Join us at the museum and be captivated and amazed with great Roman stories such as…
Short stories, suitable for all ages, times will be advertised at the Museum.
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
Included in general admission
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Venue:
Coney Street is about to undergo a renaissance as the Coney Street Riverside project transforms York’s premier shopping street. Join York Civic Trust to find out more about the Roman origins of Coney Street and how this history has affected the area over the last 2000 years and impacted on the upcoming development.
This event is organised by York Civic Trust.
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Venue: Dig
A Gladiator Cemetery in York? Exploring the evidence, a talk by David Jennings, CEO York Archaeology
27 May 2025 | 7pm – 8.30pm | DIG, St Saviourgate, York | £5 per person | Book now
Recent news reports of the only physical evidence of a Roman man having been bitten by a lion, found in a Roman cemetery in York, raise the prospect of an encounter in the Roman arena as seen in numerous film and TV representations of the ancient world.
In this talk, we will review this latest evidence of a potential Gladiator cemetery alongside the extraordinary evidence from the other 81 people found in the excavations, 40 of whom had been decapitated and a number of whom displayed many unusual or distinctive characteristics.
We will dive deep into the world of these men, think about their lives, how they met their end and were laid to rest, giving you the chance to think about the evidence and decide for yourselves what the archaeology is telling us.
Please note: the talk will show images of skeletons, showing evidence of injuries to bones and images from the classical world (Roman mosaics and sculptures) that show scenes of violence (including animals) and from the arena. Given the archaeological evidence we will also talk about violence in the past.
Talk will take place at DIG, St Saviourgate, York YO1 8NN
Date: Wednesday 28 May 2025, All Day
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Make a mosaic inspired by our beautiful Roman mosaic at the Yorkshire Museum in this fun and informal drop in workshop suitable for all the family.
Powered by Events Manager
Copyright © York Museums and Gallery Trust 2025
Site Map |
Contact Us |
Legal |
Cookies Policy |
Privacy Policy
