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Discover the Treasures of York's Past Event Highlights 93mm 95mm 97mm 99mm 99mm EVENT HIGHLIGHTS SPOTLIGHT ON THE COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT ON THE COLLECTION Visitor Information OPENING TIMES EBORACUM ROMAN FESTIVAL Open Daily: 10am – 5pm Closed 25, 26 Dec and 1 Jan. Early closing 24 and 31 Dec, see website for details. Kids Go Jo Fletcher: Discovering Ancient Egypt in Roman Yorkshire Wednesday 1 June 2016, 7pm DISCOVER FREE £11 ADMISSION in 2016* The Coins of Hadrian’s York YMT Card Holder ..................................................................................................................FREE Thursday 2 June 2016, 2pm – 3pm Adult (with 10% Gift Aid Donation) ........................................................................................... £7.50 THE TREASURES The Archaeology of Hadrian’s York Adult (without donation) ...........................................................................................................£6.81 Sunday 5 June 2016, 2pm – 3pm Child (16 and under) * ...................................................................................FREE with a paying adult OF YORK’S PAST Access Day Ticket ** ............................................................................................................£4.00 FESTIVAL OF IDEAS Anglian Kings and Coins ROMANS VIKINGS MEDIEVAL EXTINCT Thursday 9 June 2016, 2pm – 3pm YMT Card Tick Tock – Layers of Rock 12 months unlimited access to Saturday 11 June 2016, 11am – 12pm York Castle Museum, York Art Gallery An Anglian Treasure: The Gilling Sword and the Yorkshire Museum. Thursday 16 June 2016, 2pm – 3pm YMT Card .............................................................................................£22 / £20 with Direct Debit Headdress shown courtesy of the Scarborough Collections and Scarborough Museums Trust Museums Scarborough and Collections Scarborough the of shown courtesy Headdress FESTIVAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 2016 with a YorkCard .................................................................................... £11 / £10 with Direct Debit Access YMT Card ** ............................................................................ £11 / £10 with Direct Debit Constantius, York’s Forgotten Emperor with a YorkCard ........................................................................................................................FREE Thursday 21 July 2016, 2pm – 3pm THE STAR CARR PENDANT GALLERY ACCESSIBILITY REMEMBERING 1066 IN YORKSHIRE A Mesolithic Mystery The Yorkshire Museum is fully accessible to wheelchair users except for the library Join us for a season of talks as we remember the battles of 1066 in York and reading room. through the coinage and archaeology in the Yorkshire Museum collection. 27 February 2016 – 8 May 2016 CONSTANTIUS 1066 and All Those Battles A unique engraved shale pendant representing the oldest York’s Forgotten Emperor HOW TO FIND US Thursday 22 September 2016, 2pm – 3pm Mesolithic art in Britain was excavated at Star Carr near The Yorkshire Museum and Gardens are located next to Lendal Bridge, the main 16 July 2016 – 9 October 2016 Hoards and the Harrying of the North Scarborough in 2015. Following months of investigation crossing between York Station and York Minster. Entrances are on Museum Street and Marygate. Thursday 20 October 2016, 2pm – 3pm to uncover its meaning, it will be on public display for the Discover Constantius, the Roman emperor who Yorkshire Museum, York Museum Gardens, York YO1 7FR The Kings of 1066 first time ever. reconquered Britain and made Eboracum (Roman York) T: 01904 687687 E: [email protected] Tuesday 4 October 2016, 12.30pm – 1pm Image credit: POSTGLACIAL project, University of York the capital of the Empire. After his death in Eboracum FREE – museum admission applies Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter in AD 306, his son Constantine the Great was declared Yorkshire Museum @YorkshireMuseum CRYSTALS FROM BENEATH emperor. Unique objects will be on display to uncover EXTENDED TALKS the story of York’s forgotten emperor. Stargazing in the Winter Sky The Minerals of Northern England www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk Thursday 12 January 2017, 2pm – 3pm 14 May 2016 – 10 July 2016 RITUAL OR DISGUISE? Journey through thousands A Mesolithic Mystery: the Star Carr Frontlets Thursday 26 January 2017, 2pm – 3pm Exquisite forms, a riot of colour, the highlights of The Star Carr Headdress of years of York’s history, Yorkshire Museum’s collection of stunning minerals will The Vikings are Coming! 3 December 2016 – 12 February 2017 discovering priceless jewels, be on display for the first time in 20 years this summer. Thursday 16 February 2017, 2pm – 3pm stunning objects and Find out more about our preparations for our The beautiful crystals were found deep within the iron, During the original excavations at Star Carr in the 1950s, exciting new exhibition about the Vikings, lead and copper mines of Northern England, painstakingly 21 red deer headdresses were discovered. Incredibly, fascinating stories. set to launch in May 2017! collected by lifelong expert Lindsay Greenbank. The during the final season of work at the site in 2015, more *Kids go FREE – children 16 and under go free with a paying adult; maximum 4 children per adult. Offer does not apply to organised groups. display will showcase outstanding examples from the of these rare objects were found. Join us to discover how **Access Tickets: available to 17-24 year olds and those on most forms of benefit. Events are priced at £10 with no admission charge unless stated. collection of 300 minerals which show the natural world these remarkable new discoveries have shed light on life Terms and conditions apply, for more information see www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk Dates, times or titles of talks may occasionally be subject to change, for the latest information Yorkshire Museum is part of York Museums Trust. Charity number 1092466. please check our website www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk. at its most beautiful. in Yorkshire 11,000 years ago. Information correct at time of going to print. Photography by Dan Prince. 20509 YMT Yorkshire Museum Main Leaflet 2016 ART.indd 1 15/04/2016 11:58 99mm 99mm 97mm 95mm 93mm COME AND SEE SOME OF BRITAIN’S GREATEST TREASURES ROMANS Built on the remains of Get to know the real citizens of THE YORK HELMET: The most cosmopolitan Eboracum, who outstanding object of the Anglo-Saxon In partnership with St Mary’s Abbey in the heart travelled from far and wide to period to survive in Europe. this city on the edge of the of York, the Yorkshire Museum THE ESCRICK RING: Believed to Roman world. have been made for royalty as early as GOLD TORCS: The first Iron the 5th or 6th century. is home to some of Britain’s Age gold jewellery ever found in greatest treasures. Yorkshire. VIKINGS Walk on a genuine Roman mosaic floor, Find out how the discovery of amazing marvel at Viking and Medieval treasures and treasures such as the Vale of York Hoard, the Bedale Hoard and the Cawood Sword helped learn the stories of those who made York archaeologists unearth the truth – and some the city it is today. mysteries – about York’s Vikings. MEDIEVAL Travel back to prehistoric times with a Get up close with prestigious artefacts such THE MIDDLEHAM as the Gilling Sword, the York Helmet and JEWEL: Regarded as meteorite that’s four and a half billion the finest piece of Gothic the Middleham Jewel to discover how jewellery found in Britain. years old, a giant ichthyosaur and Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans all mysterious finds from left their mark on the city. Star Carr, Britain’s most important Mesolithic EXTINCT Enter a wonderful world of wild beasts, site. towering two-metre birds and enormous THE VALE OF YORK HOARD: sea monsters. The most important Viking find of its type in Britain for over 150 years. © Trustees of the British Museum “THE PERFECT PLACE TO BEGIN YOUR EXPLORATION OF YORK” MARS: The best example THE MOA: A very rare near of a Roman statue ever found complete skeleton of a now DAN SNOW – HISTORIAN AND TV PRESENTER in Britain. extinct Moa. 20509 YMT Yorkshire Museum Main Leaflet 2016 ART.indd 2 15/04/2016 11:58.
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