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
