What’s on in York – Book Launch: The Story of Museum Gardens Story

Nov _7Museum

York Explore Library :

Wed 7 Nov :

2.00pm – 4.30pm :

Free

Join us to meet Dr Peter Hogarth and Professor Ewan Anderson as they introduce this new copiously illustrated book.  Discover the story of the gardens, including the Roman fortress, the medieval St Mary’s Abbey, the Yorkshire Museum and the botanical garden.

Signed copies of the book, published by The Yorkshire Philosophical Society, will be on sale at a discounted price. Refreshments will be available.

The book will interest garden lovers, historians and anyone with treasured family memories of visiting the gardens.

This event will take place in The Marriott Room and there will be refreshments available.

For more information please call the library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.

What’s on in York: York’s Museum Gardens: a history

Apr _5Museum GardensYork Explore Library :

Thu 5 Apr :

6.15pm – 7.45pm :

£6, or £5 with a YorkCard

Join Yorkshire Philosophical Society’s Peter Hogarth as he delves into the Society’s own archives, pictures and maps, answering some of the many questions about the history of York Museum Gardens and telling the story of the site through the eyes, and in the words, of those who were there.

We are all familiar with the Museum Gardens. The history of the land before the Yorkshire Philosophical Society came on the scene can be pieced together from the surviving remains – St Mary’s Abbey, the Multangular Tower – and historical sources: a patch of non-descript land outside a legionary fortress was shaped by the Romans, Earl Siward, William Rufus, the Benedictines, and Henry VIII, among others, until it eventually became available for the Society to create their own botanic garden.

Join Yorkshire Philosophical Society’s Peter Hogarth as he delves into the Society’s own archives, pictures and maps, answering some of the many questions about the history of York Museum Gardens and telling the story of the site through the eyes, and in the words, of those who were there.

To book tickets please click here.