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York Museums Trust (YMT) is the charity responsible for operating some key museums and galleries in York, England. The trust was founded in 2002 to run York's museums on behalf of the City of York Council. [3] [4] It has seen an increase in annual footfall of 254,000 to the venues since its foundation. [5]
York Art Gallery is a public art gallery in York, England, with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics.. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 20
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, [2] [4] commonly known as the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), is a London-based organisation. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 1 ] The RSA's mission expressed in the founding charter was to "embolden enterprise, enlarge science, refine art, improve our manufacturers and extend our commerce ...
Academy of Live and Recorded Arts; AccessArt; ARC Theatre & Arts Centre, Stockton-on-Tees; Art and Sacred Places; Art Fund; Art UK; Art Workers' Guild; Artangel; Artist Placement Group; Artist-Led Initiatives Support Network; Artists' International Association; Arts & Business; Arts Council Collection; The Arts Society; Arundel Society ...
The York Museum Gardens are botanic gardens in the centre of York, England, beside the River Ouse. They cover an area of 10 acres (4.0 ha) of the former grounds of St Mary's Abbey , and were created in the 1830s by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society along with the Yorkshire Museum which they contain.
The House of York had its support mostly in southern England, while northern England on either side of the Pennines mainly supported the House of Lancaster. Indeed, the city of York itself was a Lancastrian power base. [13] Yorkshire is often described as "God's own county/country" due to its beautiful landscape and unspoiled countryside
The Arts Council of Great Britain was created in 1946 by Royal Charter on the initiative of John Maynard Keynes.It received a revised charter in 1967. On 1 April 1994, it was divided to form the Arts Council of England, the Scottish Arts Council, and the Arts Council of Wales, each with their own new Royal Charter; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland already existed as a distinct body.