York Museums Trust

St Mary's Lodge, situated at the Marygate entrance to Museum Gardens, is home to York Museums Trust. 630,000 people visited the four venues managed by the trust in the 2010-2011 season, up by 100,000 from the previous year.

These books are made for …

walking? I used to read walking home from school, with the occasional bump into a lamp-post. This mobile library is parked outside York art gallery. It's a great service for outlying communities and in York, at least, has survived the cuts.

Trio of monuments

 

Taken from the front of the Art Gallery on Exhibition Square, we have, from left to right:

 William Etty, York's most famous artist (1787 - 1849),

Bootham Bar,  the north-west gate to the city,

York Minster, Europe's largest gothic cathedral,

an open-top tour bus.

Bootham Bar (14th century and later) stands almost on the site of the Roman gate of Eboracum.