York Castle Museum

Displays

Our displays include our changing  Special Exhibitions programme (in the Main Gallery, Little Gallery and Gallery of Pots) and our permanent collection displays in the South Gallery and the Burton Gallery. 

Ground Floor

The South Gallery

Our South Gallery houses the Sacrifice and Courage displays, which concentrate on our strong collections of early religious paintings and 17th Century Dutch works.

Pictured right is a detail from The Flagellation of St Barbara by the Master of Vienna Schottestift.

First Floor

The Burton Gallery

This gallery closed on 1 August, 2010, for an extensive refurbishment and will re-open in January 2011.

The paintings will be re-hung, with many current favourites staying under the themes of People and Places, and others back on display for the first time in several years. New internal walls will be installed and partitions taken down, highlighting more effectively the architectural elegance of the room.

We'll be posting more details here later in the year about our plans. In the mean time, if you are visiting solely to see a particular painting within the closure period, we recommend you contact us beforehand to check it is on display.