York Castle Museum

Special Exhibitions

Our special exhibitions are temporary exhibitions of works from our own collections and works loaned from other galleries and museums.

Excitations

Gallery of Pots, until 31 December 2012. Leading ceramicist Gordon Baldwin chooses pots from York's extensive collection.  View

Games People Play

Little Gallery, until 15 April, 2012. This small exhibition, curated by members of the community, shows the games people have played over the years and the way these have been depicted by artists.  View

Future Exhibitions

Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape

Main Gallery, 11 February - 10 June, 2012. This exhibition showcases more than 100 works by one of the country's leading ceramic artists.   View

Previous Exhibitions

William Etty: Art and Controversy

Main Gallery, 25 June, 2011, until 22 January, 2012.   View

Austin Wright Sculpture and Drawings

Little Gallery, 16 April - 2 October, 2011  View

David Hockney: Bigger Trees Near Warter

Main Gallery, 12 February - 12 June, 2011  View

The Procession to Calvary

South Gallery, 17 November, 2010 - 9 January, 2011  View

Honest Pots

Gallery of Pots, 9 October 2010 - 9 October, 2011  View

Once upon a time...

Little Gallery, 9 October, 2010 - 10 April, 2011.  View

Hats

Main Gallery, 18 September, 2010 - 23 January, 2011  View

China: Journey to the East

Main Gallery, 22 May - 5 September, 2010  View

An English Country Garden

Gallery of Pots, 14 May - 26 September, 2010  View

Mesolithic Interventions

The Studio, 19 April - 2 May, 2010  View

York Mystery Plays

Little Gallery, 3 April - 8 September, 2010  View

Growing Zeros (Digital Clock) 2010

Entrance hall, 11 March - 3 May, 2010   View

100 Years of Gifts

Main Gallery, 6 February - 3 May, 2010   View

Bird in the Hand

Little Gallery, 21 November, 2009 - 28 March, 2010  View

Japanese Sashiko Textiles

Main Gallery, 10 October, 2009 - 24 January, 2010  View

3 Collectors

Gallery of Pots, 11 September, 2009 until 3 May, 2010  View

Reflections on War

Little Gallery, 25 July - 15 November, 2009  View

St Ives

Main Gallery, 2 May - 27 September, 2009   View

A Different View: the Changing Landscape in York

Little Gallery, 31 January - 19 July, 2009  View

Stanley Spencer

Main Gallery, 24 January - 19 April, 2009  View

Out of the Shadows

Little Gallery, 20 September 2008 - 25 January 2009  View

A Thousand Words - curated by Tracy Chevalier

Main Gallery, 13 September 2008 - 11 January 2009  View

Crying with Laughter

Little Gallery, 24 May - 14 September, 2008  View

Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York

Main Gallery, 26 April - 31 August, 2008  View

John Sell Cotman and his contemporaries

Little Gallery, 2 February - 18 May, 2008  View

Passed as Present

Main Gallery, 19 January - 13 April, 2008   View