Join staff from York Castle Museum and the My Castle Gateway team for a creative session that will contribute to York Castle Museum's architectural brief for redevelopment.

Starting at St Mary's church, the workshop will begin with a walk around the Castle Museum site followed by a cuppa tea and an ideas realisation session back at St Mary’s. There will be an architect sitting in during the workshop who can help by putting ideas into pictures, and facilitators will help by putting ideas into words. We are particularly interested in the following topics:

Movement – how do people move around the site, both into and out of the museum and all the surrounding amenities and attractions?

Sense of Place – what IS and Was this place, what makes is special at what point in history and to who? And...

Modes of Engagement – text, pictures, talks or objects, what is the best way of engaging all our visitors in the stories we tell?

The York Castle Project

York Castle Museum is one of the country’s most popular museums, regularly winning awards and named as the best paid-for museum in York by TripAdvisor. But York Museums Trust wants to make it better. Remaining true to the vision of its founder, Dr John Lamplugh Kirk, the Trust hopes to build on the success of Kirkgate, its world famous recreated Victorian Street, and create a truly immersive and ground-breaking visitor experience.

To do this the Trust would like to involve visitors and local residents in the early stages of the planning process. The stories that are told, the objects shown and the way they are interpreted are all open to discussion as well as the museum’s position in interpreting the whole Castle area.