TODAY IS WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY! Let's make #WorldMentalHealthDay top trending. Attention on social media can lead to more awareness and give #mentalhealth a higher priority worldwide. Please help us to reach as many people as possible by retweeting and using our hashtag💚

Today, one week into our Christmas advent, we want to share perhaps one of the stars of our weird Christmas card collection. Here we have a clown with a red hot poker about to prod a policeman - so very festive 🤡🎄

This winter, make sure to see our new community exhibition ‘York’s Jewish Story: 1170 to present’. Explore the history of York’s Jewish community, including how Jewish life is now being reinvigorated with the growth of JewsInYork community. > yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk/exhibition/yor…

News! In support of the health & wellbeing of our staff, we will close to the public & pause all activities behind the scenes for one week in January 2022. Staff will benefit from a week’s holiday & encouraged to rest. Read our statement here > bit.ly/3GBgmYE

Food For Thought: Whats The Best Diet For The Planet? x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We have been flagging the locations of our placements for this year's students. What a great range of museums, galleries and heritage projects to choose from #placements22 #museumstudies

With just a week until #ValentinesDay, we wanted to share with you this love token (1750 – 1820). 💖 Originally a coin, it has been smoothed down and hand engraved. This side is engraved with a man and a woman standing either side of a tree with the initials "TW AD'.

The oldest known printed #ValentinesDay card is in our collection… but it doesn’t exactly have the most romantic of messages 😅 Find out more on TikTok! 👇 vm.tiktok.com/ZML2rNErM/

Watch out! Valentines Day can be spiteful and sarcastic😬

Today we've been busy setting up for a new community exhibition opening next week!💜🎉 We're partnering with HERSTORY.YORK to celebrate 100 inspirational women who, from 1918 to 2018, have made a difference to the city of York! > yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk/exhibition/her… #InternationalWomensDay

The Herstory.York exhibition of 100 inspirational women of York at York Castle Museum Museum opens tomorrow. You can hear all about it with Georgey Spanswick Jonathan Cowap & Joanita Musisi on BBC York #InternationalWomensDay2022

New community exhibition 'HERSTORY.YORK - 100 Women Changemakers' at York Castle Museum, partnering with Herstory.York on 100 inspirational women who contributed and made a difference to York. How exciting and inspiring to see their stories being shared! #InternationalWomensDay

#blossoms

🐱 NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY! Do you know a hard working feline with a pawsitive attitude & a great purr-sonality? Well we're on the lookout for a new kitten to join our hard working team. When we first opened, the museum kept cats as mousers, so we would like to bring this back! 👇

Since my first visit to Lincoln Cathedral, I have been so into #stainedglass windows. They are such stunning and magical art pieces to look at, especially under sunlight. And here are the works I did in Stained Glass Centre workshops on glass painting, cutting, leading and soldering!

Professors Richard Sandell (@RSMuseumStudies) and Suzanne MacLeod have a forward-thinking view on history. They take a look at the significant challenges facing cultural organisations today. 👉 le.ac.uk/research/stori… 👈 #ResearchCitizens | #CitizensOfChange

📢Call for participants! Do you live in The Groves? Our new project Heritage Hunters is seeking people to join us as Resident Researchers. You do not need ANY experience of researching history to get involved! Find out more 👉 yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/about-us/suppo…

To celebrate #ValentinesDay 💕 here's a little thread of cards from our collection that made us look twice 👀 To start, nothing screams romance like cupid picking his nose. 🧵👇

If you're interested in the #TheSensationalMuseum, but you're not quite sure what we're up to, there's plenty of time to catch up - our #Podcast Episode 1 is a a great introduction - sensationalmuseum.org/resources/podc…