Carved and woven, museum treasures
Treasures from the Yorkshire Museum, from St Martin’s church on Coney Street and the Coppergate excavations.
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1970s review of the Castle Museum
Found in an old scrapbook, my brief ‘review’ of the Castle Museum, from many years back (early 1970s).
More …Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens
August 2010
The Yorkshire Museum in the Museum Gardens opened on 1 August 2010 after a major refurbishment, and I visited a week or so later. Like the nearby library, the newly-refurbished museum seems lighter and brighter, and … More …
Curvy 1930s
29 June 2009
When museums are free to enter, and the museums in one’s hometown are recognised as nationally important, it seems like looking a gift horse in the mouth not to go and visit them every now and then. So it seemed like time to pop into the … More …
National Railway Museum
9 July 2007
The weather has been so terrible this summer that outdoor wanderings have been difficult to accomplish. It seemed a good idea then to investigate some of York’s indoor attractions. This seemed an even better idea when I realised that so many of them are free. No … More …