About York

York City Art Gallery, York
The gallery shows 600 years of painting, from gold-ground panels of 14thC Italy to the art of the 20thC. Exceptional in its range and interest, the collection includes pictures by Parmigianino and Bellotto, Lely and Reynolds, Frith and Boudin, Lowry etc..
ART GALLERY/COLLECTION

York Dungeon, York
Catch the plague at York Dungeon, take a spine-tingling tour round the plague-ravaged streets of 14thC York. The Black Death wiped out a third of the population in Europe. The world's most-famous highwayman, Dick Turpin. Follow him on his fateful journey.
ADVENTURE PARK/THEME PARK

Merchant Adventurers' Hall, York
One of Europe's finest medieval guildhalls built 1357-61 and basically unaltered operated today as a museum. Merchants conducted business and feasted in the superb timbered Great Hall. Below are the Undercroft where they cared for the poor, and the Chapel.
HISTORIC HOUSE

York Castle Museum, York
England's most popular museum of everyday life including reconstructed streets and period rooms, costume and jewellery, arms and armour, craft workshops. Special exhibition - 'From Cradle to Grave' - an exhibition focusing o the traditions and practices...
MUSEUM

Yorkshire Museum, York
The European award-winning Yorkshire Museum set in 10 acres of botanical gardens located in the historic centre of York displays some of the finest Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking and medieval treasures ever discovered in Britain.
MUSEUM

JORVIK - The Viking City, York
Explore York's Viking history on the very site where archaeologists uncovered the remains of the Viking-age city. Get face-to-face with our Viking residents, discover what life was like over 1000 years ago.
THEMED ATTRACTION

Clifford's Tower (EH), York
Once the central stronghold of York Castle, the tower has much more turbulent origins. It was at the heart of William the Conqueror's fearsome Harrying of the North campaign after his 1066 invasion.
CASTLE/FORT

The National Railway Museum, York
The largest railway museum in the world.
MUSEUM