Science Places and Things: A York walk

• Monday 12 June 2017, 12.00PM to 1pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
  Book tickets
• Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens (map)
• Wheelchair accessible

Event details

Come join us for a guided walk and change your perceptions of York’s history. The York Science Trails Group aims to highlight the city’s important and interesting scientific people and locations: from Alcuin, anemometers and atomic science to bears, botany and zoos.

Find out why York’s history is far bigger than Vikings, Romans, royalty and religion. Hear about:

• the Archbishop’s son who changed the course of British science
• York’s hyena and the museum it led to
• an escaped bear in York Museum Gardens and his journey by stage-coach to London
• volcanoes and York scientists’ close escapes
• political wranglings in York Medical Society
• cholera, death and disease
• the two Thomas Laycocks and Gate Helmsley asylum
• a deaf astronomer who discovered flashing stars at the age of 20
• Tukes, Rowntrees, health and social science
• York’s young female student who became a Nobel prizewinning astronomer
• the Botanist from Bootham who ended up in charge of Kew Gardens
• George Stubbs the artist at York County Hospital.

This event is aimed at adults and interested children aged over ten years old, but all children are welcome.