Yorkshire Museum re-opening 1st August

[John Conyard]

The York Museum Trust has invested £2million pounds in the project and the new look museum will re-open on Yorkshire Day, Sunday 01 August.
Renowned for it's outstanding archaeological and natural science collections, the new-look Yorkshire Museum will showcase these in three new galleries:

Extinct - A Way of Life
Face to Face with the Romans in York
Medieval York - The Power and the Glory

There will also be an AV Show in the museum which will portray the history of York. The Show will last approx 10 minutes and will highlight the periods including - Roman, Medieval, Anglo-Saxon and Viking York.

Comitatus will sending some legionaries to take part in the official opening from 11 am. The museum holds the largest Roman collection in the north of England, not counting the Wall. Cheese and wine all round, and it is only 3 miles away

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

I walked through the park the other day and was surprised to see the construction still ongoing....I could have sworn someone had posted on here
before about it being reopened.... :? ?

[Robert Vermaat]

I walked through the park the other day and was surprised to see the construction still ongoing....I could have sworn someone had posted on here before about it being reopened.... :? ?

Ye, but not in which year.. :wink:

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

That was the workmans reply too... :lol:

[John Conyard]

The opening was a special day. We led off the Jane Tomlinson York 10 km run first thing in the morning, with 6,000 runners and cameras everywhere. Then we made camp in the museum and gardens. Over 2,500 visited the museum and there was a Yorkshire holiday atmosphere about the whole thing. Several new exhibits are on display, but the whole museum is lighter and brighter. Interestingly the catalogues of the 2006 Constantine exhibition are now only £10.
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[John Conyard]

And a few more photos here:

http://www.comitatus.net/galleryyorkshire10.html