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EborObjects: A York story in things

York, St Mary's Abbey. Credit: alh1 / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

  • Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 June
  • Free admission
    Download your free self-guided tour here (see below) on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 June
  • Wheelchair accessible

Event details

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This self-guided exhibition tells a story of York in some of its famous and lesser-known objects. Like the BBC and British Museum’s History of the World in 100 Objects, a series of specially created poems, flash fiction and other writing together tell 'a story of endless connections'.

Take a map and make your way through online content connecting objects to their locations.

The event is coordinated by University of York students from a number of departments and is supervised by Dr JT Welsch, a writer and lecturer in the University’s Department of English and Related Literature. The self-guided exhibition features the work of various local writers.

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